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CmonDevon If You’re Not Getting Rich in Your 20s, You’re Doing It Wrong

As you said in your post:

> Most women still want men who are their equal or superior in terms of career success and income, as the article makes clear.

CmonDevon Insider: Oracle has lost interest in Java

Not too late to switch to a very similar yet well-improved open-source language that was created and is being actively maintained by same company:

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn

CmonDevon If You’re Not Getting Rich in Your 20s, You’re Doing It Wrong

It's actually sadly even worse for women for another reason - they cannot date "down" for natural psychological reasons and the pool of "marriageable" men is shrinking due to less men getting education (which is perceived as "high-status" regardless of income, unless the latter is unusually high):

http://www.vice.com/read/youre-single-because-there-arent-en...

CmonDevon Mobile Web Is Top of Funnel, Mobile App Is Bottom of Funnel

Makes sense. Once I am fully on-board I want the best experience and thus a native app.

CmonDevon Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips

Searched for 'parallel' and 'core' on the page - no matches found.

CmonDevon Go Will Dominate the Next Decade

It's an obvious desperate attempt to get attention by making a hyperbolic statement. It's sad to see that it is working.

Obligatory Simpson's Disco trend forecast meme:

http://www.ivystreetstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/di...

CmonDevon Participating in Open Source

Do not read it - this guy broke Chrome Angular Batarang extension and refuses to fix it:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/angularjs-batarang...

However you participate in Open Source, don't handle your community like they do:

https://github.com/angular/batarang/issues/207

CmonDevon Programs to Read

> I am afraid that this is a wrong recommendation - too narrow, too esoteric, too academic ... I would suggest to read ... Common Lisp code

That is sure mainstream.

CmonDevon 400 days of Go

He is just in love with the shiny toy: Go is good, Go doesnt have and IDE => IDE is bad.

I have seen a guy on HN saying that debuggers are bad and logging debug messages is superior :). Future is here, but it is sooo unevenly distributed.

CmonDevon For Silicon Valley Hopefuls, Is College Irrelevant?

As long as the resulting people don't think that graphs are charts, static typing is ceremony and functional programming means programming functionality - everything goes.

CmonDevon Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Invests in SkyTran

Maybe SkyTran is a good choice for countries without decent roads or an uneven landscape or no obligatory traffic rules?

CmonDevon I'm Begging for Work

I was trying to guess the reason behind the decision to raise 4 kids in poverty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_birth_control

CmonDevon I'm Begging for Work

Might be a religion thing.

CmonDevon How and why Lyft rewrote its app in Swift

TL;DR: to gain maintainability at a cost to performance.

CmonDevon Beware of Open Source Software Zombies

A lot of .NET indie games are relying on such a zombie - Farseer. A Box2d clone so full of features and complexity, nobody but the owner can support it. And the owner checked out.

CmonDevon Machines replace migrants as Maine blueberry harvest blooms

No messed up orders, no attitude. I'd rather have teenagers learn something else somewhere else.

CmonDevon Keyboardio – a keyboard for uncompromising typists

Combination of wood and plastic is ugly. They should've made wooden keys at least: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handmade-Bamboo-Wooden-Wireless-Keyb...

CmonDevon The Effects of Computer Programming on the Brain (2012)

When they say bad programmers they simply mean not as good as them, which is a mean but true and fair thing to say.

CmonDevon Are JavaScript comments useless?

They help to compensate the lacking type system.

CmonDevon C# 7 Proposal: Nullable reference types and nullability checking

Two year release cycles are quick for you?

CmonDevon C# 7 Proposal: Nullable reference types and nullability checking

F# might be succinct but it is most definitely complicated.