gman129

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by gman129 12y ago
Obviously i wasn't advocating the opposite extreme of telling a kid to do thing just to 'fit in', kids should be encouraged to have a healthy curiosity towards their interests. My point was that parents should have in mind th
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by gman129 12y ago
The lack of normal social life from being a geek in the eyes of other kids will likely do the kid more damage then the benefit he will receive from being a child computer wiz. Let kids be kids and don't try to make them adults early, i
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by gman129 12y ago
This is particularly annoying because it would appear from that statement that google is sexists and racist. Start with 'mostly male' anyone and everyone in the tech world knows that most software engineers are male. So whats goog
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by gman129 12y ago
No offense, but your case sounds somewhat similar to patent trolls. "Spread the word" is your trade mark, huh?! What's next you guys gonna trade mark the word "Dear" and sue anyone who starts their email with that
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by gman129 12y ago
Great response Igor. This is pretty much how i try to stay up to date. The thing i find frustrating is when you finally become really good at technology often there is already a new out there which you are totally clueless in and feel like
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by gman129 12y ago
I personally employ other developers for side projects and they get paid significantly below what i get paid at my 9-5. If i was dishonest i could pretty easily pull off this scam. Not as extreme as doing 0 but i could have 80% of my work
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by gman129 12y ago
Problem is as soon as you buy it you lose money. The reason being that if you want to sell it back you must go to a dealer he will low ball you and you will have a hard time getting the actual value of the gold. It is not like $100 bill tha
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by gman129 12y ago
Fair comparison, but the difference is that we generally can get the hammers and saws free online. Choosing to pay for these products shows that they are superior to the other free ones which are available to us, and the paid ones can also
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by gman129 12y ago
JetBrains make the best IDEs on the market, their products always surpass my expectations. I use their python IDE and the php IDE both fantastic products that are well worth the money(and i HATE paying for software). No i don't work fo
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by gman129 12y ago
Examples usually show you how do things like a parrot, but you don't get the idea of why these things happen as they do without some documentation.
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by gman129 12y ago
As someone who actually conducts interviews i must agree with you. I recently interviewed a girl who was actually very talented but her resume looked very much like the one in the link (maybe she actually got it off of there). I looked at h