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Companies are in the business of making money. They only provide perks because they believe that it makes you a happier employee and that way you will work better and/or more hours. Perks aren't just perks. They are an incentive that either complements or replaces higher pay/better conditions. Never believe that they are giving you free drinks, lunch, gym membership and laundry services because, well, why not?

Sports photographers probably take 1000 photos/hour. :)

As for price, i don't think it will even take that long. In 2 years it will cost something like 50 bucks. A USB3.0 128GB flash drive (260MB/s read, 240MB/s write) from SanDisk now costs about $100.

The first book on that list "Grey Hat Python" isn't very good. It contains some good parts but it skips things like Scapy which a consider a superb tool if you are in the pentesting business. I recommend reading "Violent Python" instead. It's everything that Grey Hat should have been...

It probably uses Multi-Stream Transport by combining the signals from two DP 1.2 ports. Something more or less like Dual-Link DVI but using 2 ports. Regarding graphics cards performance probably only high-end graphics card from Nvidia and AMD (Quadro/FireGL) can drive a screen like this with decent performance.

And after 738 days we still haven't learned a thing. A large number of my friends and acquaintances in the "tech business" have already left or are planing to do so...

I currently use a Thinkpad T530 with Ubuntu 14.04 and TLP power management and it works great. I modded mine by replacing the 900P screen with a 1080P IPS screen and putting a bigger SSD (128GB vs 500GB). Highly recomended.

Specs:

Intel Core i5-3320M 2.6Ghz (Dual-Core) Intel HD4000 Integrated Graphics 8GB DDR3 RAM 500GB Samsung 840 Evo SSD 15.6" 1080p IPS Screen Blacklit keyboard

Price: About 1200€ after replacing the screen and SSD.

Forgot to tell that with TLP and a 9-cell battery I get about 7.5 hours of battery life using the ondemand profile.

About that passion... [1]

[1] http://devblog.avdi.org/2014/02/10/the-passion-gospel/

Dammit, I had to try! :)

First thing I tried: fork bomb.

So...what's the point in this?

He's a game developer. MSVC++ compiler and Visual Studio are (almost) a gaming industry standard.

Newsblur [1]

[1] http://newsblur.com

Just replace the thermal paste (easy to do on a Thinkpad) and clean the fans, it'll do wonders!

I highly recommend this one: "Beej's Guide to Network Programming" [1].

[1] http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

There is also a 1080p screen option coming in the next few months.

What about game framework, computer vision, scientific computing, robotics, etc? I'm sure you can come up with examples for each of these but most are either dormant/abandoned or simply non-existant. As for infrastructure, yes Chef and Puppet are big in the startup world but I know a lot more companies using Python or Java for that.

I don't know why people keep complaining about Ruby's (MRI) speed. Yes, it's not that fast but for most programmer's doing web development it doesn't matter. Remember, you are (probably) not writing the next Twitter/Facebook/whatever. You are (probably) writing a boring LOB web application.

Not everyone is working on a startup trying to peddle their stuff to a zillion users and getting hammered in the process. If you ever get to Twitter/Facebook/whatever size no out-of-box solution is going to work. You'll end up doing what Twitter did which is re-architect all their infrastructure/code and tune all their stuff as much has possible.

Ruby's issue IMHO is that it has always been a Rails-centric community/ecosystem and never had the change to grow beyond that. It's still largely used to write web stuff and nothing else. Python, which is a "similar" language, has a much healthier and more diverse ecosystem being used in things like scientific computing or computer vision.

If you want to make Ruby better, grow beyond the web application ecosystem and make it more diverse.

JWZ ;)

The most ridiculous example is the 5th edition of "Learning Python" by Mark Lutz. It's supposed to be an introduction to the Python language and it's almost 1600 pages long. The 1st edition was less than 400, the 2nd was 550, the 3rd was 750 and the 4th around 1200 pages.

It's a very nice book, don't get me wrong, but I think it's intimidating for a beginner.

Similar to this: pcDuino [1]

[1] http://www.pcduino.com/

Mind telling us what provider are you using? It's hard to find a Windows VPS provider at decent prices.

Can some recomend some decent source material to learn about Node.js and some best practices about it? I've read "The Node Beginner Book" and found it quite easy but somehow it didn't click.

If you're using any Microsoft technology people around here assume that you are a boring programmer that's a slave to the evil Redmond overloards and are not in anyway interested in fancy tech news that are posted in Hacker News.

Keep up the good work, you guys in the ASP.NET team are doing great :)

I've grown so dispassionate about the tech industry in Portugal that I've been thinking about quitting and doing something else (I'm 28 and I always wanted to be a software developer). I can't change countries (my girlfriend's profession doesn't make it easy to change) so I don't have that many options, so it's either put up it with or quit.

My advice is go and don't come back. The industry around here won't value your skills, you will be considered a tech janitor and after a few years you'll lose your passion and become jaded or just conform to the status quo.

Cheap? Yes, if you come from a country like the US, UK, Germany, etc. The problems is that salaries for tech jobs aren't very good compared with said countries.

Most (all?) tech jobs in Portugal are in Lisbon. I know companies in Oporto (Portugal 2nd biggest city) that have problems hiring people because everyone flees to Lisbon when they finish their degree. I tried to move to a smaller city (I'm not a fan of large cities) but there were very few oportunities, mostly PHP positions where you spend all day coding crappy CMS/CRM/ERPs. Sad but true.

REALBasic maybe? I know a couple of companies that use it and they seem to like it.

The new T430s. Just came out.

Like in MS Office applications you can hide the ribbon in the new Explorer.

I'm not sure what I have learned here or why this is important to be mentioned here. Guy is leaving Big Corp (TM) and moving to San Francisco to build stuff. He says some nice things about said company and that's it. So, what else?

Edit: And this was almost a year ago...