If I were China, I would just use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. From the description, "It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers."

Because she is banning negotiations before employment. Staff are, by definition, already employed.

You're still assuming more than what was said. Many places evaluate employees solely on the word of their superiors. Regardless, I don't think this will change your conclusion. However, the same could be said of hiring at McDonalds, which is probably just as useful a company as Reddit.

Real programmers live-stream with ttyrec, as Lars Wirzenius did a year ago: http://liw.fi/distix/performan...

The hiring salaries are non-negotiable. Nothing was said about raises. This sounds reasonable. You get a raise if you prove yourself at the company, but not before you even start the job.

2560x1600 on a 13" "retina" Macbook is much easier on the eyes than 1280x800, and it allows font scaling by an integer factor. If you're only speaking of using the monitor for watching TV, then fine, but it can be used productively for work.

You all are assuming that Tim Cook threatened to stop selling Apple products in Indiana. Obviously he didn't do that, and he wouldn't if he could. The analogy with Saudi Arabia is bad. Tim Cook is not accepting of rights abuses in Saudi Arabia.

You miss the point. So you're saying that you would happily give up your white-malesness, if you still get to keep all the money? You don't realize how whiny this sounds? You have more money and power than anyone else in the world, on average, and you're complaining about how much you "don't matter". This is crazy.

Hmmm... The average income of a white man (US) is around 35% more than the average income of a black man. I'm black, and I'm sure we all would gladly take the 35% raise for the privelege of "not mattering". Indeed, the racial profiling we get makes us matter so much more than you guys! Enjoy!

You can cheat on the Olympiads. North Korea was caught cheating on the International Mathematical Olympiad twice.

Saying "coding" instead of "programming" is like saying "ciphering" instead of "mathematics". Please stop. Imaging the headline, "Arkansas is now the first state to require that high schools teach ciphering". I'm not a computer programmer, but I think you guys are disrespecting your discipline by encouraging the word "coding".

If most music sounds dull to you, then you better move beyond Western music. Listen to music which is not based on the diatonic scale. Example: Bulgarian state female choir. The dissonant chords will wake up your senses, and make you feel things you don't normally feel when listening to Western music. Even if you don't like it, I think it will help you understand what's missing from your musical palate, and lead you to discover something else interesting. Also, try to find not-too-Western-inspired African music. The chords sung by people from different cultures will push senses you never thought you had. Forreal.

You can't stop listening to music. Depression will slowly creep up on you, before you realize it.

Wagner did not invent those Norse legends, so I think it's more correct to say both Wagner and Tolkien "borrowed" from the same source. And of course, they're not the only ones...

But C has a small number of precisely-defined constructs like this, which are easily explained in a few pages of K&R. And they usually make sense and are consistent with all the other constructs. Understanding inheritance gotchas in C++ is way more difficult.

Double bonus if this result gets manufacturers of laptops to FINALLY include ECC memory.