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And yet, so many coders don't know linear algebra.

'..but don't actually help you do it day-to-day'

Most of the time, but by understanding those core concepts, you're mind looks at programming and solving problems in a different way. Similar to math, you may never use a differential equation, but by understanding it, you look at the physical world and interpret it in a different way.

Not my intent to look down on anyone. My point is simply that software engineering is huge, you don't learn it in 2 months. Done traditionally or independently, my hats off to you. It's no easy task.

Exactly. Whole post on point.

Anyone's who been programming only 6months or less, you don't know $Hit about programming yet.

I see these stories quite a bit and they're kind of annoying. ex. 'How I switched my career, and tripled my salary, and became a software engineer, all in 8 weeks'.

Please. Many of my colleagues, and myself to an extent, have spent many many years since childhood preparing just to get into a reputable engineering school. Then it's 5 yrs of constant workload get the degree, whilst hustling doing coop. Then you get out in the real world, and life smacks you in the face, and you realize its only getting started and you're about at the bottom of the rung as can be.

To be honest, I get a little offended when someone goes through a couple tutorials, reads couple blogs, and suddenly they call themselves an engineer. I have friends who've been grinding out code since they were 10yrs old (now works for google), people have to realize programming and engineering takes a lot of hard work, it's not something you master over the course of a few weeks/months.

Words of wisdom.

Great job! One of the best I've played with in a while. Apple needs to pay attention, iOS natively should have something like this.

HN has been a blessing for me. It has taught me so much about startups/consulting and everything related. And the comments section is tremendously valuable. As an avid forum reader (self-proclaimed) I have the experience of knowing how to comb through the comments and be able to quickly extract what's important. Only a fool reads everything and interprets it on face value.

Sometimes in the comments what's written isn't important, but the thought process behind that writing could really help excel one's career (if one's able to discern it). I have to pay homage to the tremendously experienced consultants here, in which I've learned so much from, and has helped my career unequivocally.

My mobile dev experience consists of thus far 95% time allotted to iOS and 5% allotted to Android. Thus, I'm in no position to accurately compare the two. I feel the same holds true for the author, and most of the commenters. Yet everyone's pretending like they have no bias's or they know both platforms well enough to make a fair objective comparison.

Almost always, when something's written about iOS vs. Android, the underlying reason for justification is more rooted in 'proving' their preferred OS is superior, rather than any objective reasoning.

I'm actually an ios dev, and looking to branch out.

That would be ideal, but I don't have enough points to create a poll yet.

In my humble opinion, when you challenge a core app that everyone is so accustomed to, you have to make yours significantly more value-able for it to gain traction. It almost had to jump out at you, and make you feel stupid for ever using anything prior to it.

And that's the problem with email apps. None I've tried has made a significant enough value addition to make me permanently jump

I'm curious, do any HN ios developers worry about the future of being an iOS dev?

The conventional wisdom with programming is that no programming language is safe, and it's wise to branch out and keep learning. I'm pretty deep into ios now, and looking to embark on a new challenge. What should I learn next? Haskell? Rails? Node? Android?

As much as someone's willing to pay.

Personally, it does not surprise that FB is willing to pay 3B. FB is struggling with the younger crowd as of late, it's a great strategic move in my opinion.

The E-2 Investor Visa allows an individual to enter and work inside of the United States based on an investment he or she will be controlling, while inside the United States. This visa must generally be renewed every five years, but there is no limit to how many times one can renew. The investment must be "substantial". Investor visas are available only to treaty countries,[1] which include countries like Albania and Senegal, but do not include Brazil, Russia, India and China.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa

Just did a quick search for Canadians, so it might be different for other countries, as stated above.

Based on my experience, and now putting myself in your position, I would just finish the engineering/business/math degree, and then pursue a career in software when you graduate.

I did my degree in mechanical engineer (mechatronics), and didn't have too much trouble finding employment in software. I graduated with no internship or professional experience. My graduating semester, I realized software 'was it', so I just strapped down and built a product (made no money) and released it (ios/rails/AWS). A few more months studying mobile development obsessively, I landed my first paying gig. It's been about a year since, and I couldn't be happier with my decision and progression.

But to be fair, my major heavily involved programming various robots/devices/languages since 1st year, so I had lots of programming experience upon graduation. But I imagine you are in a similar situation, or could be if you wanted to.

Since this is HN, I wouldn't be surprised if you have a curiosity/enthusiasm with trying your hand at the startup lottery. There's no better background to have than CS/Engineering for this.

So my advice is: find a sector from software you find interesting, build something and ship it.

Agreed, that's very annoying. I'm still subscribed to a few emails I don't want, only because they make it so difficult to unsubscribe.

I get annoyed by those n stupid popups on every video now. Do I really have to close 15 * overlays before I can watch a video?? really?

Google, how does this add to the experience? How does it make youtube a better product?

I won't even get started on the asinine recommendation system. Backed by one of the largest companies in the world and the brightest employees in the world. And yet youtube gets crappier every year. Scratching my head on this one.

Have a look at the comments, Skeet professed to knowing the solution beforehand. Still impressive nonetheless.

Why not?

I think the previous posters assertion was legitimate. It actually got me thinking.

As a newish freelance/contractor, what stood out to me is that's a shit tonne of money made there. I wonder if there's contracts close to that floating around still.

That was unenlightening.

This article is misleading.

My family has been part of the seafood business in North America for almost 30 years, and I definitely have the ability to distinguish between fish species just by looking at flesh.

This article makes no attempt to distinguish between what sushi bars label as 'tuna' and 'white tuna'.

Order 'tuna' and you're almost always going to get tuna. Order 'white tuna' and you're almost always going to get escolar/albacore.

"A compiler will compile your C code into assembly"

basically what I was looking for. I have to look more into gnu gcc etc.

Thanks

checker659, actually mechatronics/software engineering

cool