I work for company based out of Spain. Our US office is pretty small with only about 30 people, while there are about 300 in the entire company.
In our us office there is only 1 girl and only about 6 native English speakers. I think its pretty cool as I get to talk and get a peek into the culture in Spain.
Simple jokes are almost always voted down. Even when they're funny, they're not the target tone of the site. It's not personal, it's just an editorial and community-direction choice.
I had noticed everyone had the same typical serious programmer personality here. That's why I enjoy reddit a lot more because it's not like that 100% of the time.
I think C++ will always be a big player. I'm sure it will lose popularity to some new languages as time goes on but I doubt it will go away completely. There's just too much stuff already written in it and too many companies dependent.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I had to read it back in high as part of my AP Lit course. It's not a very long book but it is very well written and teaches you to enjoy life and live out your dreams.
I got the impression from reviews on Amazon that it might have to do with "the law of attraction" (which I dislike), because a lesson in the book is about the universe conspiring to help you when you want something badly enough. Is "the law of attraction" a major theme?
I saw this a while ago (about a year) and I wrote a hello world and another small program in it. Shortly after I had a job interview for a software dev. spot for one of my schools research labs and I brought this up in the interview, my future boss thought it was halarious!
I took my first class this time last year. It was Programming in Python a 100 level course at my university and my introduction to the world of Computer Science. I fell in love and I feel like a have a lot of material to cover in such a short amount of time. Most of my friends have been coding for years now, I feel like I have to hit the ground running in order to catch up.
also I'm sure it would be important to note that I am familiar with Java, Python, C++, and am learning Perl this semester. I typically pick things up pretty fast so learning a new language (unless its just a strange one) wouldn't be that difficult for me.
Hello, I suggest you change this post's title to "Ask HN: Open Source Projects to Join?" . You'll get more responses from the HN Community and people may browse questions like yours more easily using the search function.
In our us office there is only 1 girl and only about 6 native English speakers. I think its pretty cool as I get to talk and get a peek into the culture in Spain.