I was applying to work for a bank. Their front page looks good, but the part to apply for jobs and manage your bank account is poorly made. It is a big bank in Brazil and there aren't many banks around here. The only reason I can think of is pure insane greed, since is good business for a bank to at least appear to have a good website that goes beyond the first page.

Usenet is a good alternative to torrent. There are some alternatives with cryptography like I2P, but they have never being popular or proven safe.

I don't have much experience, but I have a strong felling that the skill of the manager is strongly related to the productivity and team's satisfaction. I think that a bad manager will brake the team no matter what the methodology.

I don't know about other programmers, but in my job I spend most of the time reading API documentation. It is very rare to have to come up with some algorithm to do something, usually there is already a library that do the job for you. So the challenge is more in the architecture, organization and knowing how to use libraries.

I think some video games had 128bits architecture.

A lot has been written in C, including Python's interpreter. You usually find C++ and C supporting the other languages in the form of libraries, interpreters, compilers, and operating systems. Looking this way C sounds more important, but I don't think it is a practical language since you can learn and use a language like JavaScript much faster.

I am in favor of using a popular language to save people from having to learn a new language to work on a project. It is funny how that is not the case with javascript since a lot of people claim to know JavaScript, but actually doesn't go beyond w3schools.

I recommended JavaScript because it is a relatively easy language to learn, you just need a browser to run it, and you can do things like play a video or GUI easily. If your focus is more in hardware or embedded or if you have a specific goal, then I would have recommend something else.

Javascript. You can do a lot with little.

Many websites today, that rely on users to self regulate, are target for exploits. One should be really careful when make these types of sites and ensure that the users can't abuse their power. If websites can be exploited this way, I can only imagine what people do to real life institutions.

Not shift, but still bit wise. In JavaScript the method indexOf returns -1 when the element can't be found in the array. You can do ~array.indexOf(element) to transform that -1 in zero and anything else in a value different than zero, this way you can use it in an if statement to check for the presence of the element in the array.

The problem of having everything in a single file is that, if you change a bit, everybody is going to have to download everything again. So I vote for CDN as opposed to hosting everything yourself.

That is HTML4, I think you could start with HTML5 now.

I agree. It is very annoying. My personal theory is that recruiters are laze and instead of trying to figure out if you know programming or not, they just count how many libraries you have used in your projects. People are collecting libraries like they are stamps. They are also following libraries like they are fashion trends.

Steve Jobs said there was proof that OO makes you more productive. Do you guys know said proof?

Being single threaded reduces problems like race condition, it does not increase them.

I like functional, but I am not sure if it is too complicated to the point that is faster to work without it than to understand it. It may be a great tool, but if it is too hard to understand it, than it may be not worth it.

A company run by greedy pigs. Where is the news?

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If you are developing a library, make sure it follows coding conventions. If your library looks like the standard libraries, than it is probably ok. When using other people's work, there is not much you can do, since how the code is organized is not up to you.

An internship could offer you a great opportunity to learn how to program professionally.

Also, don't put connections on top of merit.

That is the result of "learn git in x minutes" tutorials.

Many people say that COBOL pays well because there aren't many COBOL programmers.