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During my grandfather's funeral, I was literally holding up an iPad (connected to Skype) throughout the proceedings, because some of my cousins couldn't make it to the funeral. It wasn't 'dignified' b…

Hah, the most depressing moment of my life was when I realized that Office Space is disturbingly close to reality.

Laziness in itself is not a virtue. When programmers say we want 'lazy' people, what we really want are 'efficient' people. People who can get more stuff done with less effort, not people who aren't e…

It's more interesting because in this example, you're the neutral party.

I wouldn't want to work for a company that restricts access to StackOverflow, or MSDN for that matter.

That's Perl's philosophy isn't it -- there is always more than one way to do it. Of course, that's one of the reasons why Perl has notoriously poor readability.

>"There is no tension between writing a beautiful program and writing an efficient program." There is a big difference: you can objectively measure efficiency, you can't objectively measure beauty…

His point here is that being a programmer is better than being a doctor or a lawyer because you can begin contributing at an earlier age. Here's the "arrogant" part: for that point to be valid, one ha…

A lot of content on HN are poorly-disguised humblebrags. I would post some examples, but I am simply too busy building my million-dollar product.

You don't need a programmer to develop new surgical techniques ;)

It's not just naive, it's incredibly arrogant. As much as I'd like to think otherwise, doctors contribute a lot more to society than programmers do.

Thanks for that :) I intentionally left a decent-paying job at a Fortune 500 consultancy firm, for a job that pays less but actually allowed me to learn interesting technical skills (in robotics). Hon…

I'm making less than that now, but that's mostly thanks to our shitty currency exchange rates. I would gladly work for USD$25k/year.

Damn man, I know how that feels. So sorry for your loss.

Hah! If only I had time for late night gaming sessions.

I am 25 years old and I don't have the $100,000 job that everyone seems to have no trouble getting =(

To paraphrase Churchill, Word is the worst text processor, except for all others that have been tried.

I know of at least one company which actively filters potential applicants based on their 'personality', which they determine by administering a 15-minute online quiz.

Malaysian here. Dengue is an unfortunate fact of life for us - the tropical, wet climate here makes for a great breeding ground for mosquitoes. It's not unusual for a person to be sick for a month or …

I was mystified by 'redheads', since I've never seen anyone with naturally red hair. The article also did help clear that up too.

"I've been running into this issue since the 1970s as a second-language speaker of Chinese. My wife, a native speaker of Taiwanese (whose parents, like most Taiwanese persons in their generation, were…

Charge the advertisers $2, $1 goes to Facebook, $1 goes to the victim. Seems fairer, no?

Do they really send people to reeducation camps for disrespecting the president in the US?

Are you reading the same comic? The author doesn't explain why calling the son Robert')DROP TABLE Students;-- would cause the records to disappear. Which is fair enough: it's meant to be hu…

It's useful when you're talking to a website owner, and you're trying to explain how the previous developer goofed up.

When Android first came out, its browser was called "Browser". I actually appreciated that.

Calling the browser 'Safari' is weird, if you think about it. I remember trying to teach my mom how to use the iPad to access the internet: "First press the home button" "Ok" "Now tap on Safari" …

Hi, I'm curious, how big, do you think, is the medical IT market in Singapore?

It's bad rap , as in rap sheet. http://grammarist.com/usage/bad-rap/ Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine :).