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faizdevon Ethereum Genesis Sale

If you have time to read up on the technicals, the following introductory paper (dubbed 'the yellow paper') is highly informative with regards to the technology and related work Ethereum is based upon: http://gavwood.com/Paper.pdf

faizdevon Show HN: JustReachOut – Forget PR Firms, a tool to pitch reporters yourself

The hiding of the reporter's email doesn't really work/is broken, since if you fill in data for the fields on the page, and then hit 'send' it takes you to your email client with the reporters email in the 'To' field.

Someone could just as easily fill the fields with junk just to get at reporters emails', I suggest implementing a character counter for the fields at the least to ensure content is being entered and not junk/useless data.

faizdevon Cppquiz – Figure what a given C++ program does

I would kill to answer questions on the corner cases of modern web languages, such as JS, Ruby, Python or Dart. Pretty cool idea.

faizdevon Ask HN: Where do you find interesting papers to read?

Second this, ACMQueue is great for finding top notch papers, their latest covered HFT: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2536492

faizdevon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

Just FYI, kickbackpoints.com/jobs doesn't lead anywhere, and I didn't notice any direct contact route to send messages.

faizdevon Does life end after 35?

Nice! I'm just starting out as a softie too, also due to the economy, did you start out with the web too? What language, how long until you found the job that kickstarted your career?