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>"frequent HN contributor"

What's the point of that exactly? Supposed to be amusing?

Nope. I'm also not a developer.

There is an important distinction between developer and engineer. Anyone can become a developer, engineering on the other hand requires a bunch of training.

p_shermanon Ask HN: Do I need College?

First, let me put it this way: you can do perfectly alright without a college degree, however, you can only rise so high. You must not expect to be the next Gates who is obviously an exception.

Secondly, college is not about only about learning. Queue the "Don't let schooling get in the way of your education" spiel. It's experience. I'm not even talking about partying and getting laid, which are still experiences, but professional experience where you go a talk to a professor that you liked for four hours arguing how machines will never be truly intelligent.

So, yes, I think you should definitely go to college and do your startup part-time. The startup might not work out, and you will have the degree forever thus allowing for other prospects. Besides, who knows how you'll feel in ten years.

p_shermanon GitHub Replaces Copy And Paste With ZeroClipboard

https://github.com/blog/1365-a-more-transparent-clipboard-bu...

Original article, and not TechCrunch regurgitation.

p_shermanon Review my startup, Listnerd.com

To be frank, this isn't a startup. This is a weekend project.

Also, the generic random background photos on the homepage just don't make sense.

p_shermanon Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

You see, about a year and a half ago this was what HN was actually like.

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So this is what it has come to? Reddit links were not sufficiently nonsensical? Shall we start posting memes now?

p_shermanon The Last Article That Needs to be Written About Sexism in IT by a Male

Privileged sounds right. What makes him think that he gets to decide.

p_shermanon How to Shut Down Reddit's CreepShots: Name Names

Of course Gawker would soy that.

p_shermanon In under 3 weeks, iPhone 5 overtakes Galaxy S III in mobile web traffic

Isn't Chitika the largely discredited company that basically invented nonsensical stats a few months ago?

p_shermanon Teaching My 5 Year Old Daughter To Code

Why would you want to force something on a child that young? Why would you want to basically indoctrinate your child with something?

How about, instead, developing reasoning skills and the ability to make their own decisions and then actually letting them decide what they want to do? Crazy, I know!

p_shermanon Blizzard is secretly watermarking WOW screenshots

All speculation, guess work, no external sources, no reproducible results.

Paranoid stoners is my guess.

p_shermanon Samsung’s Report Says Galaxy Would Be Better If it Were More Like the iPhone

It's important to note (when the article title is pure link-bait) that it's Galaxy S1 that's mentioned.

p_shermanon Ask HN: Building a large webapp today - what language for the backend, and why?

I don't know about everyone else, but I was always taught that analysis and design come before the implementation. It's not something you do in 10 minutes before you start making software.

p_shermanon Ask HN: Building a large webapp today - what language for the backend, and why?

Large webapp and seamless transition to another language are not really compatible.

p_shermanon Stocks Perform Better if Women Are on Company Boards

Correlation vs. Causation. Good day.

p_shermanon Discussion of HN at 4chan's /g/

So from Reddit nonsense to 4chan. A natural progression I suppsoe.

p_shermanon Firefox upgraded my browser from 3.6 to 12 without asking and my consent

I was merely pointing out the fact that it is the running of a 3 year old browser that benefits no one and debilitates the web.

p_shermanon How to use KPIs in your Startup

If there ever was a certain way of killing morale in a startup it was by introducing KPIs and calling them KPIs.

p_shermanon Firefox upgraded my browser from 3.6 to 12 without asking and my consent

You're the type of person who runs IE6.

p_shermanon How I Data Mined the top 300 paids apps to create Tehula's icon

On the other hand, with 300 records you can grab a pad and a pencil, and manually tick blue, yellow, blue...

p_shermanon How I Data Mined the top 300 paids apps to create Tehula's icon

Remember when data mining used to mean 3 000 000 records....

p_shermanon Ask HN: Why is there no stopping Apple's monopoly of tablet/phone's browsers?

And how is that related to the question at hand? It isn't. As a matter of fact it isn't even in nearly the same industry.

p_shermanon Ask HN: Are there any basic primers for Comp Sci?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Computer_science

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p_shermanon FaceMath.Tumblr.com

Of course a human did it.

p_shermanon FaceMath.Tumblr.com

Are you friggin' serious right now?

I'm starting to get really pissed by all the nonsense.

p_shermanon Reddit community cracks a cyphered message found on a subway station

Idiocy. I don't want to read Reddit. Stop this.

p_shermanon Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham develops federated wiki

Holy mother of misleading titles.