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Something tells me Jay-Z's opinion has likely changed in the past 10 years. He isn't rapping for teenagers anymore. He says just that in his interview with Warren Buffet and Forbes.

Local meetups are a good resource. Most have mailing lists and they're often quiet, but from my experience questions are generally answered within a couple hours.

I want to say this is a relatively common practice. Kudzu is an invasive species in most of the southeast United States that spreads along roadside. We got rid of a lot if in Tallahassee, FL by using goats. I don't remember the details but there was a single pack of goats that were regularly moving throughout the city.

AT&T is the only company to provide data and voice at the same time on iPhones. And it's the best choice for quality in many markets such as Boston.

One way I found I could speak out: I just downgraded my SMS from unlimited to pay to go ($0.20 per SMS). With iMessage, my texts are down to 30-50 a month so I'll save about $10 a month on average (down to $82/month). Before doing so just check your monthly usage beforehand to be sure your average is less than about 100 texts.

iOS 6 I believe made requesting contacts require permission.

Xcode has command line tools. You don't have to use the GUI exclusively. Also I know at least one developer that uses vim for editing but uses Xcode for building. It's probably in your best interest to use some combination (e.g. Xcode for configuring your build settings)

You know you can opt out of those scans? I do it all the time. I'm sure you know, but in case, it's no big deal to opt for the pat down. Just show up fifteen minutes early (yet it has only taken at most an extra 5 minute for me -- many times faster e.g. when a false positive on the machine shows up and you're instantly considered a terrorist even if you're a 45 year old fat ass going to the beach).

It seems you're already over the hurdle of not assuming other languages have the same grammar as English. From my experience (internationalizing a site for English and Japanese with both heavy back and front end rendering) with that groundwork laid, at least Japanese is relatively simple.

A favorite solution for varying lengths of content is html's flex box. Luckily I only had to support WebKit.

Elsewhere in the story the translator had a Dominican passport. It seems likely they traveled using forged documents and first, to Japan. Kind of like how Americans go to Mexico in order to get to Cuba and vice versa.

The new iOS Hangouts app is a gchat client. While I'm not sure how it's implemented, it seems they'll likely bundle gchat (and other google chat services) under the Hangouts brand.

It loads but you have to disable any ad blocker and install flash.

In my experience this only works if the feedback cycle is quick. If working with a language like ruby or python and just refreshing webpages or running a script, no big deal. However, I then would have to wade through logger output to filter out the information I needed. I ultimately found I appreciated a debugger such as pry.

Then I started writing for Android and the time between compilation, installation, running the app, and then reproducing the scenario was too long and a debugger was a godsend.

Button at bottom opens a modal that I can't scroll on an iPhone 5.

I went out too. Lots of shops, restaurants, bars still open in North End area.

I've had a VPS require photo ID (ServInt)

Hybrid apps are prtty decent, but fall apart as the complexity grows. I'm working on integrating custom native video players into a hybrid app. It's not hard to extend features to your javascript SDK, but there is overhead and complexity communicating and syncing state with your javascript runtime, where you'd prefer most of the code to be. Native apps with webviews sprinkled here and there are great, but when native code sits as a second class citizen to html/js (like phonegap), it's a nightmare.

I would hardly call this is "a seemingly non-complex domain". This database schema supports gambling and fantasy for 7 different sports.

I started their iOS book without any objective c knowledge and I'm doing fine. If you are an experienced programmer and want to dive right into iOS, I say go for it. If you like to learn conservatively, read the obj c book first.

You can find pretty much the same behavior in thoughtbot's backbone-support. I highly recommend it and it's written in javascript.

https://github.com/thoughtbot/backbone-support

It has a CompositeView and a SwappingRouter that you should use in place of Backbone.View and Backbone.Router

The original video isn't proof of anything but that a machine didn't work. Surprise! Not. Your video didn't prove anything. It's noise.

There is a video, but it doesn't demonstrate anything. Did you even watch it??

I know you're being an asshole, but jQuery solves DOM query/manipulation pretty well. Generally, if you use javascript for DOM query/manipulation you're either really stupid or really smart, pick one.

You need an appropriate cert for that.

You're too late to effectively communicate in a 1-on-1. You've got to begin the relationship with trust and respect the time to share grievances, successes, etc. Consider it a lesson learned for your next employment.

That's a fascinating story. I'm curious what would it actually feel like to rotate 1 rotation per second in space? I guess the bigger factor may be location within the spacecraft (e.g. I imagine if near the center it would be much less stressful).

Many schools use google for email, calendars, and chat. It's google for business, but I believe it's free (or relatively cheap) for education institutions. Theoretically all those users would be using Google and perhaps Google+ with enough encouragement.

Many other schools choose MS Live and those students would not necessarily have any reason to use Google+. Interestingly, at least at UMass Boston, the primary justification for MS Live was because MS claims it can identify the physical machines your data is housed on, whereas Google does not make such promises. This is only important for checking off boxes when audited.

My highschool courses were all graded on essays except the hard sciences. College is not the only place to learn to write. I also remember my 5th grade teacher telling me we all deserved As (for average instead of E for excellent) but that if anyone were to have an E it was me or this other girl. Writing is encouraged at all ages, not just college.

In American schools we have most likely to succeed but also things like most funny, etc.

You get a different result if you click the buttons versus performing a google search.

I had a pretty intense full-time job (managing an academic library's digital services) and going to school part-time to earn my BS in CS. It was incredibly difficult to manage my time.

Every semester I would work 9-5, take classes from 6-10, go home, fall asleep, rinse and repeat. I had no time to study, but when I did, I often did other things because I had no energy or motivation. I did this for four years (and I already had 2 years of college prior to this!). It was exhausting.

My only suggestion would be to take a light workload and aim to master the subject. I breezed through most of my classes because I already knew the material. For tougher subjects (e.g. statistics, compilers) I struggled. The material wasn't that hard, but because I didn't take it too seriously at the start (when it was easy) I fell behind due to weak understanding of core concepts. Never fall into that trap. Commit to studying consistently, seriously, and keeping at pace with the class.

I only did this because I wanted a degree. I think it's a piece of trash, but I wanted a little bit of security in life (I was in my early 20s and just getting started). Since you want to learn for learning's sake, commit to that. Don't try and cut corners.