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Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Keep them coming!

Wow, I agree with every single point you've made.

I often see myself making comparisons too, but now I think they're more likely to result in bad feelings than in bringing me any kind of useful knowledge. So I just consider them useless and try to not make comparisons again.

Thanks for sharing. Good luck for you and me!

Thanks. I'll try to fix it when I have time.

Last year I entered CS school and found myself embarrassingly weak at Math. I've been studying really hard since them and I don't really believe I'll be a very good Computer Scientist if I do not learn Math (Linear Algebra, Discrete Math, Graph Theory, Game Theory, Calculus, Statistics).

Amazing

Generally, front-end developers tend to earn less than back-end ones. Pick up some CS fields and explore and learn them until you get good at some of them.

The fact is, front-end developers are not that hard to replace, so you don't have much of a bargaining power there.

Try learning more about Algorithms, Security, Optimization, maybe even A.I (NLP, Data Mining, Machine Learning, etc.)

Try to talk to them. Explain what are your goals, show them that you're not a lazy kid who uses the computer only for recreational activities. Show them examples of other "kids" who started young and did great things.

Hey! You can use the GitHub "explore" feature. Here is the link specifically for Java

https://github.com/languages/Java

I learn a lot from reading code of other people who are smarter than you. Also, very frequently Open Source tools are better than their equivalent proprietary ones. Also, it can give you fame and fortune, there's an immense number of people who has benefited from advocating and using Open Source software.

Also, great (and many) companies are always looking for developers of specific Open Source projects like OpenGL, OpenCV, Rails, Django, and many others.

You should learn to use Maven. Also, try to follow great Java projects on GitHub and learn with their maintainers how to write great Java code.

Also, as the JVM has been flourishing for the past 5 years, I'd also recommend you to learn some of the more popular JVM-based languages. That'd be Scala and Clojure.

Thanks for sharing your experience and a tip man.

The concept of majors and minors in undergrad school does not exist here in Brazil. However, I only imagine myself as a Software Engineer in the future and CS is the only course I can do. So I basically have no choice, I'll have to become very good at Math. I will succeed. I better do.

So what does he mean by "bad startup" anyway?

Is that a startup that supposedly will hardly succeed?

This really sucks. As said above, it wasn't working anyway. Too bad it happened. I wonder if Google could've gained more knowledge about the common "undesired" results and use it to improve the search.

Great! It is quite different in the beginning, getting used to work at home and all. I recommend you have a nice space for work at home.

Good luck!

This is amazing! Ahahahah, very good.

Wow. Awesome work. I will try applying some of my little Linear Algebra and see how I can mix it with Computer Graphics and WebGL, more specifically.

I'm running into the same problem. I am tired of CRUD apps, I just don't see myself doing anything new or exciting with them . Last year I was approved in one of the top tech Universities in Brazil and started learning C and C++ and this year I'll engage in programming competitions.

By the way, I've already failed 2 math disciplines in my University and I'm doing them again. But I'm good at programming and I'm becoming way better at Math. Someday after I graduate, I'll try to work for Google or Facebook, do you know if they'll turn me down for the fact that I have failed some math classes (even if I later was approved on them)?

Thanks everyone.

oh, nevermind here you can find a lot of decks

https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/

I remember when they said the way to go was HTML5 and all that talk. Glad their changed their vision.

Shit

Loved this essay. I think pg nailed it when he said that after some point, it's like you don't own stuff anymore. They own you. And the stuff we keep may become serious dependency in our life, which reduces our flexibility and freedom to do new stuff.

I just read this article, glad I did in a point of my life where it really makes a huge difference.

Are we in some king of Lisp day or something? Hahaha

"serve others", can't figure out exactly his intention by sayin' that but it's a quite weird statement, IMO.

My opinion is: do what you want, if that pleases you, great! If that pleases even more people, greater!

awesome. please tell us what you're doing to ensure the data is safe?

JavaScript: The Good Parts is definitely a good book for what you want. But there are more:

* JavaScript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov

* Learning JavaScript Design Patterns - Addy Osmani

* High Performance JavaScript - Nicholas Zakas

After you read these three books you might become apt to write great, efficient JS code and know the underpinnings of the language, which IMO has a particularly curious design and might make you confused sometimes.

P.S: Check out the WTFJS website for being introduced to some strange behaviour of the language http://wtfjs.com/

Have a nice and busy week!

Yes and Backbone has its source annotated to make it easier for you to understand the code http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html

For advanced performance testing and benchmarking you can use JSPerf http://jsperf.com/

Thank you Chris!

This is great, guys. iA Writer already was my favorite Mac app. Now this... <3