Bravo! What's your (secret to get your stories published)??

You said it!

Basically agree with this. However, you were able to learn, among other things, Java, Spring, Hibernate... in a year, with no prior real programming experience. That's great. Nevertheless, experience plays an important role in programming, because there are some many different fields that are always linked in some way (eg, you learned Java and do not have to care about C pointers, memory allocation - however knowing how all of that works under the hood (ie like knowing C well) gives a huge advantage when it comes to create structures, guessing the complexity of algorithms etc... As a beginner you will reinvent the wheel a lot... and this is what usually do the young beginners - and that's good because at that age, one is eager to learn, to spend a lot of time on algorithm details etc... Will you?

Don't know about your background, but if by chance you have a degree in mathematics, or if you like (and succeed at) puzzles, riddles ... you get immediately an advantage over the majority of programmers (experienced or not). Most of programmers can produce a very bad code as soon as an algorithm that is a bit more complex than what's done during the daily routine is required - that represents maybe 1% of the programs, in size, but may weight 99% in terms of complexity, efficiency, maintainability etc...

The divorce rate will increase dramatically if Apple doesn't fix this ...

Yeah, Let's Put Upper Cases Every Where.. :-)

Oh you mean if MS wouldn't have existed, many people wouldn't have converted themselves to virus makers and the world would be better?

At first it made me laugh... but then wondered... maybe you were serious after all??

The thing is, can you legally volounteer, provided that this can be considered as a suicide?

Indeed. Didn't read the link deeply enough... should be logically flamebait-ed :-)

Slashdot can: in the range [32, 127] ...

So do you mean India does officially what the US does unofficially ?

CSS indeed brings a lot to webpages, compared to no-CSS design. Too bad the CSS creators, while they had some good ideas, were not able to realize what programmers/designers really need.

because when the price of the 3D printers will drop, and the guns CAD models become available anywhere on the Net, the first retarded person will be able to make one in no time and play with it in his closest mall or school.