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It's a good intermediate companion to the official Rust intro [1]. I found it most helpful when reading third-party crates.
Jeri's process [1] is wild compared to Sam's lab.
My experience at Amazon has been great. I don't know anyone who cries at their desk, works 80 hours per week, or feels like they're being pushed through a meat grinder. I worked for Microsoft before Amazon, and that was brutal. You'll find bad teams at every large company. One of my friends was on one at Google.
No? Amazon, Google, and Microsoft hire aggressively out of UBC.
Waterloo is an awful place. Asking people to move there is a hard sell. At least people would enjoy Vancouver.
Respect to you, my friend :).
Edit: It's worth noting my buses often pick up dozens of high school kids as well, and again, I'm not seeing Blackberry. Maybe it's bigger in Toronto?
A "pickup artist" did math similar to this and concluded guys should spend very little time on girls that aren't interested in them, as it's emotionally taxing and numerically daft.
I've never wanted to join a frat because they all seemed like idiots, but I can't say I haven't been jealous of them for the girls that seem to hang around.
All that being said, do you understand what I'm getting at? No, I don't wish for hipster sunglasses and drunken weekends. I am what I am, and typically that means I'm too shy and/or nice to girls for my own good. But at some level, the brogrammer culture looks cool to a guy like me.
I hope that makes sense and adds something to this discussion, it seems like most people are a bit older here and only approach it from that perspective.
That being said, I found the title a bit misleading, or not fully informative. I thought this was an article on how engineers ought to be running companies!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3478850
I'm actually shocked TPB hasn't participated in the blackout themselves. They made it clear they're international, but SOPA/PIPA are international too.
Edit: I wasn't very clear, what I really meant to say was that I'm shocked TPB hasn't acknowledged blackout day somehow, especially considering how often they change their image.
"The decline in driving by younger Americans is fed by many factors: the high cost of gas and insurance at a time of economic insecurity; tighter restrictions on teen drivers in many states; and roads that are more congested than ever, making driving less fun than ever."
But I'd add that cars used to be cool, and right now there aren't any cars I seriously want to drive. My dad and his brothers could afford muscle cars and they loved driving them, it was cool as hell. I can't relate to that at all.
I wanted to get into kernel development and a couple weeks ago I checked out Kernel Newbies. I was excited to see a list of projects that "Computer Science students" could work on -- that was me. That list has projects from 2007-2009.
In my experience Arch users are very happy and proud to be running such a powerful, flexible system, and they give back by helping others. I ran Slackware for a year, then messed around with Mint before trying Arch. I can't see myself trying anything else -- except maybe LFS ;).