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For example: I'd much rather hire a Russian programmer than a Chinese programmer simply because I can communicate with the Russian better, we're from similar cultural backgrounds, and I understand where he is from.

Is that racist?

To pretend that differences don't appear in all types of people is ignorant in itself.

rfnslyron How a Fake Beard Can Get You Hired on the Internet

Then I'm a racist. Sue me.

rfnslyron How a Fake Beard Can Get You Hired on the Internet

You should coin a new "law". Something to do with beard and tech. Give the law a cool name too.

Also, I ALWAYS comment on peoples beards. They love it.

rfnslyron Frameworkless JavaScript

It's SO much effort to spend a weekend studying a code base and playing with it. Get over yourself.

rfnslyron Amusing ourselves to death

You're putting far too much thought into it. Put it this way, I don't know anybody who actually goes home and just drills into the topics they are profoundly interested in.

99% of people go home, watch some news, and then watch reality tv.

A very small amount of people read or dedicate their lives to living a life of virtue not complacent pleasure.

That's sad. We rather be on Facebook and Instragram and Snapchat 24/7 than disconnect ourselves and feed our brains.

rfnslyron Economists agree: Raising the minimum wage reduces poverty

When the wage is higher than mine :P

rfnslyron I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a "hacker"

I was 15 at the time. I was on the internet 24/7 frequenting various communities, back when any "scene" had its own "official" forum.

I was primarily interested in gamehacking and web exploitation. I made a few friends from these communities and we often shared stupid exploits with eachother such as uploading some html file deep in a large corporations file structure and linking it between us for laughs.

My friend messages me one day that he managed to upload a c99 shell on a large website. He linked me to it, but deep within the structure to a plain text database of millions of credit cards.

Fast forward two months later: I'm ratting out every connection I know along with emails/names/info to the police, after they kicked my door down and seized literally every computing device in my house.

Phones, computers, tablets, desktop computers, and my NAS'. It's been 8 years and I have yet to hear from the police and they have dodged my emails, in person visits, and calls every time.

I lost over $10,000 worth of computer equipment. This was my hacker moment.

rfnslyron How to use Photoshop to design interfaces

Hmm is it worth learning Sketch? I'm a photoshop die hard but wow this program looks enticing.

Do you have any good resources to learn more about how to develop with Sketch?

rfnslyron How to use Photoshop to design interfaces

Why do you ask silly snide questions?

Tell me what is fundamentally wrong with screenshotting an interface, playing with it a bit, coming up with something you like then turning it into code?

rfnslyron How to use Photoshop to design interfaces

Personally I much rather fine tune every pixel of my design so I know exactly what to do when I'm coding, just need to reference my screens.

rfnslyron Ask HN: Getting a CS "degree" via MIT OpenCourseWare?

Oh awesome, UoL sounds like a potential option then. Thanks.

rfnslyron Ask HN: Getting a CS "degree" via MIT OpenCourseWare?

I work in the corporate world. The reason it's frowned upon is because employers rather see complete projects that you did rather than a bit of random code here and there in an open source project.

rfnslyron Ask HN: Getting a CS "degree" via MIT OpenCourseWare?

However if your experience in the local small college was miserable you have to be brutally honest with yourself about what the real reasons were for not completing there as they will likely apply to anything you do elsewhere.

It was low level introductory programming like basic C, PHP, navigating the UNIX filesystem, writing bash scripts, some simple database work. It's stuff I've already done before and didn't find challenging, wasn't worth it.

I'm not in the States and England is out of the question as well.

rfnslyron Ask HN: Getting a CS "degree" via MIT OpenCourseWare?

Nobody in the real world cares about open source projects from my personal experience. I realize I won't get a degree, just wondering if people have ever been hired after spending time on something like this.

rfnslyron Free Bootstrap Themes

Maybe people just put time into their appearance? It's amazing how far a good diet, good sleep, exercise, and some grooming can go.

rfnslyron Show HN: We made 1 app this year

Could someone comment on this vs YNAB? With YNAB I have it hooked up on my desktop as well. How does this compare? I like the neat visuals, wish YNAB had those.

rfnslyron Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

It's historically more romantic to kill Hitler than any other dictator.

rfnslyron I Decided to Delete All My Facebook Activity

Keep those. It would be funny to look back on in 20 years, if it lasts that long.