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Good unique handles are only getting scarcer as the internet grows older. I wonder what people will do 20 years from now.

Who are these people? Probably in their 20s, high paying job out of school, don't give a hoot about saving money and just live it up while the going's good. I can't imagine anyone else going for $4000/mo apartments.

Or, multiple people sharing a place.

You can see the remedy attempts already

* push for cloud storage over local storage

* push for locked down devices over general purpose computers

* push for DRM on the open web

* big ISP companies fighting against net neutrality

You seem to be at the whim of fickle web APIs, that's no way to go if you're in it for the long haul. Web tech moves very fast because it's just so easy to iterate and deliver the latest version to your users - and why waste time being backwards compatible when people put up with you regardless?

You have to decide whether you want to pursue these ever-changing trends and be a middleman between API services and users, or take charge of your fate and develop your own meaningful technology (that others in turn will use).

If you click on "Tips Home" it gets even weirder. Like the url for "Technical tips" being "make-money-online-tips/", and check the Blogroll.

What a bore. Why would I want to read mill-produced articles weaved with sponsored posts? There's an overwhelming amount of meaningful content coming from thousands of different sources, made by writers and artists who have something to say to the world beyond optimizing for page views and ad clicks.

Sure, you learn the most in your first 6 months by quantity but that doesn't mean you learn the most valuable things. You won't learn anything of depth in half a year.

I'd like to give freelancing a shot at some point. How would you build a reputation network coming from a corporate background?

How about no more scroll jank by just delivering plain useful content without the anti-usability bells and whistles? Even the cheapest hardware out there today is able to provide a nice user experience, and in answer to that we invent new ways to make everything bloated and choppy.

I don't envy the eyesight of the worker that has to look through a microscope their entire shift, this was sad to read.

Is the work atmosphere more relaxed in Canada? For that matter, do the East Coast/West Coast culture stereotypes hold true for Canada?

Terrific! There's something so raw and human about these old geeky websites. Random people from all over making comprehensive, quality content about the things they love and showing it to the world how they want, through their eyes. Information is cleaner and better organized now, but less personal and less fun for sure.

I think outrage at this is a little unjustified. The whole schooling system is built around monitoring student progress. I think the best way to help our kids develop these skills is going to be through lots of monitoring. It's certainly good to question the effectiveness of monitoring, and what it's encouraging, so I respect that sentiment of the other posters, but really? Outrage?

I don't think you realize the damage all this pervasive monitoring will do to warp and stress people's minds, being subjected to it 24/7 from early childhood. It will take away all awareness that they are the directors of their own life. It will condition them to constantly act for the benefit of an unseen observer instead of living their life for themselves and being unafraid to walk off the beaten path. And yes that includes being able to cram for a 5th grade history test the night before, it's not like they're handing in their Master's Thesis.

That sounds like an awful waste of 20 years' worth of skills and experience. I never saw this "check out at 35-40 and do something else" advice given in other specialized and relevant professions, but I can see how it may fit in the context of a jobs bubble where the industry can't sustain all the gold-rushers for their entire working life.

What do you mean by transition into another career? Using your programming experience in a tangential field? Getting into management?

What jobs make $300-500k at Google, I assume upper management positions?

All these overbearing JavaScript frameworks solve problems nobody has. Web design is trivial, all you're doing is bloating it and making it less accessible by replacing native GUI elements (like scrollbars) with our own confusing, low-performance solutions. I see more and more bad habits from 15 years ago come back to hunt the web, how did it come to this?

Phone systems really do seem needlessly outdated, they're the paid service with the crappiest user experience today.

Why is it possible for some creep to call me from ostentatiously fake numbers like "1111111111" or "111 222 333" at 3am only to spout gibberish, try to scam me, or just stay silent on the other end?

I like this! Is it a sort of staging ground for libraries to eventually graduate to various distributions' official repositories, or is it just random bite-sized utilities for quick weekend projects?

Only small software projects can be compared to woodworking or painting, anything complex requires careful advance planning, rigorous testing, and peer review, just as you would expect from any engineering project.

It looks like a a bunch of the goodies are user-made. I had no idea DuckDuckGo was so open to developers [1], what a nice surprise!

[1] http://duckduckhack.com/

I like it, it's clean and modern but largely keeps the original's spirit. I'm not so sure about the cyan background on "Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia", it looks very distracting.

On a tangential, what's the deal with glossy instead of matte screens on all mainstream laptops? Is it that they're more durable and easier to clean? Do the colors look better?

I found that I reasoned everyday things in a more organized and structured manner once I really got into programming. I think it's an interesting and worthwhile idea to try to teach children this way of thinking, regardless if it will lead to them programming computers or not.

Wow, that Tofugu site exemplifies the Hipster Phenomenon, with an always-there menu bar that takes a third of my browser window's vertical space!

Looks great, and unlike most web demos this one is fairly light on CPU usage!

Usability is important, but so is the option to expose how something works under the hood to those that desire the knowledge. Computers are too important for humanity's progress to turn them into consumption-only appliances. Over-simplifying and locking everything down will deprive us of many future inventors.

Designers are good at refining existing products for mass consumption, it's engineers that come up with new, innovative products that solve real problems. Expecting designers to be good engineers is insulting to both professions.

Client-side web technologies are rotten and ill-designed, a mountain of patches and inconsistencies. That's why it's so painful to see people try to shoehorn JavaScript everywhere just because it's the unfortunate status quo.

I interned at Google and had to share my office with 2 others, although it's probably different for interns.