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That's quite interesting, did you ever end up attending college at all? What are you doing now, and what did your parents do?

Huge kudos for the design of the site - it definitely gives off a Tron-like feel. I can't imagine the attention to detail to what amounts to just a game.

I wouldn't consider it one. Lifehacker isn't always about lifehacks and they also have good tutorials for things that some people aren't aware of. Many people I know think the only way to make coffee is with a drip coffee maker.

Hey Sandeep!

Try the pourover method for coffee: http://lifehacker.com/5907612/make-your-own-pour+over-coffee...

You might have to buy some filters and a holder for it: http://www.amazon.com/Cilio-Porcelain-Coffee-Filter-Holder/d...

If you want to try and get a taste of what it's like, I _highly_ recommend Houndstooth Coffee or Patika Coffee. They both do excellent pourover coffee.

In general, with any sort of coffee, beans are at maximum flavor anywhere from 1-3 days after roasting. Grind right before you brew and with the pourover method, go slowly.

Sure, the depth of the content is not as good as other forums, but a peripheral point I think the article was trying to make was that the accessibility of such resources is what makes it so revolutionary. I'm an avid reader of r/fitness and one of the things that makes it so appealing it me is how much of the advice relates to me, an average guy who spends much of his time on the internet.

In my current meal plan, on my workout days I minimalize fat intake and maximize carbs/protein in a 40/60 split - the calculator suggests Greek yogurt or fish chowder for nearly every meal. Obviously, this is more on the extreme end of diet planning and arguably I wouldn't have much of a use for it since I already have my own specialized plan.

For context, this is the next iteration of http://swole.me/.

It's a neat tool for getting a starting meal plan going, but some people have complained that the food variety is lacking. I can't eat only Greek yogurt for every meal.

Something I'd like to see is also the personal setup of the interviewee(s), for example, coding environment or Mac/PC preference.

As with any dotfile repo, I wouldn't recommend installing the entire thing at once. Instead, try and take the time to read through it and select settings that you want piecemeal. You'll end up knowing what everything does, especially in the case that something strange happens and you want to tweak things.

Edit: I should note that I learned this the hard way starting out, I went backwards by ripping out things that didn't work for me/did not like, but not until after making some horrible mistakes!

Judging from what you said about your past individualistic and highly niche projects, would you say that working at Google is a big reason why you moved away from your lone wolf attitude?

If so, what advice would you have for a person who isn't working at the Googles or Twitters of the world (read: bleeding-edge hip tech companies) but at least has the same sort of mentality?

There's no doubting the legality of Padmapper scraping Craigslist data, so I think now would be a good time for him to innovate and really push his other product, PadLister. If Eric were to write another blog post, I'd make PadLister the focus of it and start building a new community there.

I think this calls for a public shaming. Be sure to blog about it and post it to HN.

It's particularly insidious when you see that a large part of tech-friendly Austin is under the district as well. We are but a drop amongst the sea.

Off-topic: I can't help but to note how meta your username is right now.

A bit of a meta question: As someone who feels like a 'B' or even 'C' at times, what would it take to become an 'A' player? Is it predicated on pure talent alone, hard work, or experience?

Even though I know I'm still a junior developer (~1 yr exp), I feel hopeless at times that I'll never approach being 'A' status especially knowing that I have many peers my age that are already far and away better than me. How would I overcome that?

In general, however, if you know you need Java and how to install Java as a dependency then in all likelihood you're savvy enough to avoid being infected.

http://www.openvim.com is also a good web-based tutorial that I used when learning vim.

Those are different divisions of Samsung. IIRC, Samsung's semiconductor and mobile corporate arms are separate entities. I think it's a weird legal arrangement that allows them to do business with direct competitors without hurting their bottom lines.

Very interesting. Since it implements Blueprints, does it also have support for Furnace (graph algorithms)? If so, does this imply that graph processing is done on disk rather than in-memory? I am rather unfamiliar with Blueprints but I'm wondering how Titan implements that aspect.

That's awesome, I was planning on using Play 2 to build a purely RESTful service for a weekend project but I wasn't aware of either Smoke or play2-mini. I'll be looking into the three of them now to see which one I would use.

Personally, I'm not too concerned about the amount of code as Scala tends to be terse by nature. A creeping problem from what I've experienced with Scala libraries is trying to be waaay too cute with DSLs and syntax. But as long as the source code and DSL is easily read and traceable, I'm happy.

This looks cool. What's the use-case for it versus using something like Play! 2.0 + Akka for async HTTP?

As far as my limited knowledge of Play (learning it right now, so I could be far off), Play can do async HTTP and already makes use of internal Akka actors for handling requests.

Doomed to fail; they never mentioned scalability. How do they expect to grow to millions of users without web scale technologies?

Explore looks more and more like a killer feature and foursquare seems to be touting it up front nowadays. I really like the direction they're going with it combined with tips. There's something to be said about reading what are essentially tweets about a certain place instead of a long-winded review on Yelp. Explore + tips is probably going to replace searching for random venues on Yelp when I want to try something new in the vicinity.

That being said, I'm still wondering how they'll monetize despite how very useful it is. I know Amex has been in bed with them lately and even after talking with a friend at Amex I still don't know where the money would come in.

You could say the same about D2's economy - it became about MFing (magic finding) for loot that you could trade in for the equivalent market value in item currencies: Stone of Jordan rings, or later, charms and points on a 3rd party forum (forgot the name). Then, you could buy the specific piece of shiny loot that you want for your character's build.

That, or you farm and hope that the piece of loot that you want serendipitously drops.

Finish it, and please post/announce it to HN when you can! I'm looking forward to reading both books.

I typically just list things I've worked with, no matter the experience level. I like to do so because then the interviewer has to ask about them in an interview, where I'd then get a chance to (subtly) showcase my knowledge and enthusiasm.

From my own anecdote: I had an interviewer ask me about something I had listed in my resume (but not related to the job position). It made for good conversation and allowed them insight that they otherwise wouldn't have seen with a straight technical question.

Edit: Hopefully I didn't go off topic with my comment, but I also think the graphic indicator was a clever and very straightforward way of expressing experience level. It just doesn't seem very space efficient if on a paper resume.

My prediction is that interactive graphics will be the trend in coming years - the things you can do with d3.js, Protovis, and related JS libraries is way deeper than a simple static image. The New York Times already has some great interactive pieces, e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/13/business/stude...

Yes, it does seem kind of low when you look at the activity compared to other sites like Stack Exchange sites. However, something I've noticed is the higher percentage of well known people answering questions on Quora. I could see them making a play for increased participation among well connected or high expertise individuals and focusing more on the quality of content rather than quantity. It would certainly be an interesting avenue to exploit should they choose to.

What's also remarkable is that Minecraft isn't entirely a new play concept - I always thought of it as infinitely scaling sandbox of Legos that allowed you to 'live' in the world you create. My first play of Minecraft triggered nostalgia of playing with a big box of random Lego bricks.

Notch knows how to execute and how to do it quickly. Watch any of his coding live streams and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. I hope his new space MMO blows that genre out of the water as well.

This almost seems unreal. What kind of latency would you be dealing with when your application(s) deal with many concurrent connections? For example, say a cross-platform multiplayer game with a persistent, shared world?

I would say go for it. Hadoop is becoming more of a norm in industry and I can tell you from personal experience that having prior hands-on Hadoop work makes your resume pop a little more.

Even better is if you're able to muck around in core Hadoop versus abstracted management layers like Cloudera. The things you have to learn in maintaining a Hadoop cluster like cloud systems management, tuning, running jobs, etc. makes for valuable experience, even if niche.