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Based on what I read, the launcher is not available on Nexus 4. I don't get why Facebook Home doesn't support a stock Android.

I disagree. I once tried coding an iOS app in a Windows 7 laptop using a hacked VMWare to run Mac OS X. And I will not do it again. The amount of time beach ball of death shows is greater than the time I saw the normal cursor. It's so damn hard!

So if you want me to code something for you, supply me the required hardware for it.

And no, you can't hack on whatever hardware.

Give them real life projects that you will use. If it's about programming, in my experience, I learn different programming languages by feeling it and coding using that language. Let him appreciate the real use of the project he will do. A good dev can learn on his own, but make sure you are there beside him. Always be open if he has questions, or clarifications.

For essential skills, I can say programming language literacy, version controls, SQLs, basic algorithms and data structure, and software dev life cycle.

The best thing you can give to a fresh dev is experience. :)

Cool! I'll submit mine when it's ready. Right now, I'm just starting developing it.

I agree. I can also concentrate and focus better at night. There is also the sense of urgency that you want to finish what you are working on for you to be able to sleep.

If I were you, yes.

But a question to ask is... Are you willing to sacrifice?

It might be a short term sacrifice. Because maybe after few months or a year, the startup will be acquired or became a hit. We don't know.

Also, do you have family? If you have, maybe consider to ask them first.

When joining a startup, I always said to myself that it's not about the money. It's about the value (experience, learnings, etc.) you will get.

I read almost all the notes in the Github page and it lasted for months. There are different sides shown.

BTW, I think travelling cost and need so much money. I wonder what are Egor's source of income. Don't know him that much so I just assumed consulting (Sakurity) is just his source of income. Also, if Egor is in South East Asia at the moment, he should visit the Philippines!

I'm with you. I really like solving problems or finding a good algorithm to solve the problem. What I can say for you is try to find a company with lots of R&D going. I think there are many companies out there, especially startups that are having some R&D to improve their product and beat their competition. I think startups like Prismatic (http://getprismatic.com) and Diffbot (http://www.diffbot.com) have a heavy NLP and machine learning research going in the background to improve their product. I'm interested in joining those companies I mentioned and contribute to their reaserch and development.

I think game companies also have an R&D to improve their AI, path finding, rendering algorithms, etc.

That's it. Just find an R&D job.

At first, I dislike teaching programming in schools. It is because the space might then be over populated and finding jobs will be harder. Then I realized math was taught in school, science was taught in school. But most of us students didn't end up as mathematicians or scientists. Programming is much like math and science. It is a technical topic, and not all of us will like it. It can be taught in school as an essential subject but not all of them will pursue to be a programmer in the future.

That's what I think before. Until I met Grails and Groovy. Plus their friend Scala. I'm really getting high productiveness in those languages when developing web apllications. Grails for web stuffs and Scala for non web. Before them, I used to think that Java is only for enterprise and didn't like using it for my web apps even though it was the language I'm most proficient at.

Wow. Thanks! I wear glasses to and it's also my concern. But my problem now, my lens are too thick (my grade is high) to be held up by a half frame. I always need a full framed glass. And I think, that one in the picture is just half framed.

This Google Glass requires internet connection right? I like to know how effective it will be to those country with a limited or not so good data connection. Here in us, LTE is just starting, and mobile data service is not really that good. It's good to have this kind of gadgets, but I hope technologies in some non first world country can catch up. I really love to own one immediately, but I think, location wise, it's not a good idea yet.

Boo. I read it with "Hello" and at that moment, I knew it will be a great read. Why someone remove it?

Sometimes I love over engineering my projects. It helps me hone my skills and keep updated. But I limit my self to one side. E.g. Back end or front end.

In my case, it's back end. API and stuffs. I'm also trying to limit my self in using different kinds of language. My current Back end stuff today are Grails for web app, Scala for non web, Redis, memcached, MongoDB.

Don't ask me about front end. I'm not updated with it by choice.

I'm always fascinated with NLP. My undergrad works around it. And currently doing a research for my MS degree. It's about a variant of automatic summarization, wherein I extract the most important sentences in an article. I'll open an API for it soon. :) If you're interested, just contact me in my email (check my profile for it).

In the meantime, here's a preview of what it can do. http://goo.gl/Lz7Vr

You're the Josh Miller from Branch right? Oh well, just clarifying. :) I admire you.

Here's the Whos's Hiring page for February 2013. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5150834

And here's for January 2013. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617

Who's Hiring is posted automatically monthly. :)

Facebook is giving a $500 minimum reward. https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/bounty/

I'm not sure about that 99%. But I agree, for conservatives, FFmpeg is mind blowing.

For me, it's magical!

You're right. Lottery is not one of my plan to get rich.

Other than money. I believe getting something you strive for is really worth it. It will give you happiness.

Honestly, I want to get rich. To have a stable life. To prove my self worth.

Damn. I think it's not intended as a cactus. Hahaha.

Waaaait. It's made by Kiip? But Kiip is a rewards network, right? (Based on their Twitter, https://twitter.com/kiip) I don't know they are into creating games too.

Oh well, will download and try it. I like their founder, Brian Wong.

A lot of GIFs are use for meme.

I'm always saying no. But they are always asking because they think it's the right job for me. It's because of their misconception of being a Computer Science == Website Developer (Wordpress, HTML, CSS)

I bet it's a misunderstanding of what Computer Science really is. In my opinion, many youngsters or people that's not in the tech world think Computer Science as just programming, or developing a website. I have an experience on this because my parents are forcing me to develop a website in which I don't like and they reacted with "what is your education for?"

But what they don't realized is that Computer Science is more than developing a website or programming. CS deals with math, algorithms, and such words that they haven't heard before. Automata, discrete math, pumping lemma. Computer Science is much harder than they thought. With this, many students in my university shift to another course because they can't handle CS. Too many students are enrolling CS becase they think it is the trend. They think it is the right course to learn how to develop website, how to create something like Facebook, how to develop an app, how to develop something like Instagram, or even how to create a game (http://blog.jpbalb.in/post/16048908922/game-programming-anyo...)! Yes they can learn them through CS, but if that's just what they want, they can just go to the internet and do a Google search. Because again, CS is more than just that.

Finally, I think it's not the lack of staff, but the lot of students. Give those students few years in Computer Science, and I'm pretty sure those "lot" will be "few".

I don't know if the thread starter is just trolling, joking, or just a time traveler.

Update: Seen this on Reddit. http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?13608-Help-on... 13 years this time! I think he's a troll.

This will greatly contribute to the decline of GSM and the rise of mobile data. Great move and good job by Facebook. I'm excited to try this and see what will happen.

I downloaded it a while ago. And I had fun reading the questions and their best answer. The Best of Quora is a good source of knowledge ala "FYI".

Your life may not improve by reading them, but it is good that you know those things. The best one I read so far was about what the boys feel about girls effort in their appearance (makeups, etc). I like how he compared the effort in making a tuna sandwich!

Start by determining what is your problem. Then solve it.