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Seriously Clever for A 10 year old book on perl basics is probably pushing it.

No disrespect to the guy though I'm sure he is and general respect for publishing a book like that.

I guess just limited exposure to Java

Wow, sounds like a productive code review.

Guy works on Java projects for 3 years. In this time wasnt able to produce a high quality project, blames language.

Its very rare for a poor performer to get a promotion like that.

Generally in big companies especially, if you do well at development and promote yourself you'll become a manager regardless of managerial ability. You then get to micro manage the bad developers you mention.

But Ive never heard of someone getting promoted due to poor performance.

I seriously hope this is a joke

Gold is not money... you should say "when I use dollars as money"

1bn people * $1 is a decent income? Bearing in mind that is an optimistic figure and FB paid 16 times that...

"But if they say no, what they don't know is I have conversations ongoing already that will lead to offers."

Unless they are really naive they probably do indeed know this.

That image is insane. $7,500 for a couple of hours in a recovery room. Not sure how that can be justified, they're clearly just getting as much money out of people as possible. As the services are not exactly optional.

The NHS is not a shambles. Its puts a lot of other countries health care system to shame.

Your moaning about having a 3 hour wait for non urgent cases, when in other countries you'd have to pay a fortune for such treatment.

And who cares how they talk to you, as long as you end up getting the treatment you need that's all that matters.

It specifically says:

Consider this great visualization of the most popular coding languages of 2013 from the interactive practice problem website CodeEval:

hmmm, front page of hacker news (your target audience). May want to fix it now! :)

Its a good opportunity. Site looks good otherwise

A bit like Netflix?

Also he didn't actually say he would be storing the details, in fact he said he was using Stripe to manage the payment side of things.

I feel you are not embracing the tea drinking enough.

I am well aware what the English drink, being one of them and all!

Yes, that also put me off somewhat. There's an air of dishonesty about it.

Kettle on the hob sounds so much more fun then boiling water at the touch of a button.

I feel like there needs to be some ceremony to the tea making, it cant just be pored from a tap there needs to be some kind of wait preceding it.

Clicked the link, clicked the browser back button to come back to HN, did not work :(

I think this is fine if it actually is temporary. As they're getting general living costs on top of their regular salary.

ie accommodation and food

Yes they are actually called generics in Java..

So this is just going to cause confusion, though I am very impressed with all the long words you used.

You misread that. It says "I hadn't gave 1 star just because I want my comment gets shown on top"

He is saying he hasnt only given 1 start to be at the top, he actually does think the app is terrible

People are so mature

Any source for that other than just an impression? Would be interesting to see..

I dont like being forced to log in with Facebook.

Also typo on the front page: uploded -> uploaded :)

Yes, very immature.

"Of course, she’s happily married and I, having failed 2 startups in the past, am still building another startup! (I hope this post reaches you, lady!)"

erm, what?

Nice try. His time is far too important to deal with you lowly people

Yes thats different.

Yes, it seems being contacted by a lot of recruiters has really gone to this guys head.

This is incredibly unprofessional, a simple polite, "Im not currently looking" would be suffice.

The recruiter doesnt need his life story.

I think you misunderstand, If you invest in a business that fails, you lose your money..

You dont get to "persecute" anyone. Thats the risk of the investment

Stopped reading after this spelling mistake on the first line of text:

"We already have extreamly reliable"

True in London, I imagine this changes dramatically outside of London though.