15:[[9464961,{"by":"reesdreesd","descendants":46,"id":9464961,"kids":[9465280,9466020,9465769,9465021,9465019,9465077,9467079,9465003,9465373,9466630,9466465,9466381,9465015,9466499,9466161,9465092,9465919,9465134,9469276,9465223],"score":11,"text":"I want to dedicate a few months to learning a programming language (part time) in order to achieve the following two goals:

1) Be better prepared, as a founder, to understand engineers.\n2) Add a "hard" skill I can use to earn money on the side (e.g., while bootstrapping).

To clarify, I'm not a founder yet, but that may change soon. I have very basic knowledge of programming: a semester of C++ (15 years ago) and some dabbling in AppleScript, shell scripts, and html/php/css.

Of course, I realize that I won't master anything with only a few months of study. Nevertheless, I'd like to do what I can to improve my chops in the time I have.

If you were in my shoes, what language would you invest in?\nCan you recommend any resources to help me learn it (e.g., books, online resources)?

I'd really appreciate advice from the HN community.","time":1430401270,"title":"Ask HN: If I learn one programming language, what should it be?","type":"story","url":""}],[9142415,{"by":"fffrad","descendants":10,"id":9142415,"kids":[9144117,9142436,9144788,9143241,9144698,9142635,9147902,9142853,9142942],"score":4,"text":"Working as a web developer, or web programmer, I could never answer this question. I always had to make something on the spot. I think it is the one and same thing, but maybe HN can give me a better answer.","time":1425438047,"title":"Ask HN: What is the difference between a programmer and a developer","type":"story","url":""}],[8821015,{"by":"jc00ke","descendants":112,"id":8821015,"kids":[8821365,8822127,8821570,8821185,8822099,8821744,8821603,8821187,8821203,8821421,8822393,8821182,8822001,8821199,8823228,8821121,8821176,8825533,8821101,8827830,8821389],"score":291,"time":1420059032,"title":"MRI Developers Don't Use RubySpec and It's Hurting Ruby","type":"story","url":"http://rubini.us/2014/12/31/matz-s-ruby-developers-don-t-use-rubyspec/"}],[8349000,{"by":"nreece","descendants":70,"id":8349000,"kids":[8349223,8349084,8349144,8349317,8349580,8349135,8349515,8349425,8350949,8349100,8349264,8349587,8349239,8350143,8349291],"score":80,"time":1411352937,"title":"Xamarin makes me sad, here is my message to them","type":"story","url":"https://gist.github.com/sadxamarinuser/2717d68996daea0e2f17"}],[8341216,{"by":"tobz","descendants":34,"id":8341216,"kids":[8342460,8341425,8341475,8341363,8341453,8341998,8341811,8341621,8370916,8345288,8341802,8341669],"score":7,"text":"There's been a groundswell over the past few years of organizations dedicated to helping get more women into tech, along with other STEM fields. Usually, though, these organizations are for women BY women. As a male, it feels like it would be considered white knighting, or condescending, to try and offer help to these organizations, or to attempt to start something on my own.

I'm looking for your thoughts on what I can actually do to help this movement. Any real-world experience would be greatly appreciated.","time":1411144550,"title":"Ask HN: How to help get more women in tech as a male?","type":"story"}],[8255311,{"by":"vonklaus","descendants":19,"id":8255311,"kids":[8255744,8255407,8266146,8255397,8255525,8255505,8255878,8255398,8255531],"score":5,"text":"I live in Los Angeles and I don't have a ton of prior work experience. I worked at a PE type shop for ~8 months and then started pursuing a skillset in technology. I have a BS in Economics and minors in Marketing & Biz Admin (so not tech related at all). I taught myself html/css/sass and am pretty capable with JS and JQuery. I am doing a 3 month bootcamp so I can polish my skills and learn Ruby and about a few different databases. When people come out of these bootcamps they end up working at small web dev shops and frankly that isn't very compelling to me. I want to work for a start up but am worried I am too old for entry level and possibly won't have the right skillset. Anyone have experience interviewing or hiring someone like this?","time":1409620212,"title":"Ask HN: Is 25 too old to get your first job at a startup?","type":"story","url":""}],[8250629,{"by":"QuickOneP","descendants":7,"id":8250629,"kids":[8250838,8250969,8250953,8250806,8250687],"score":9,"text":"$16","time":1409524493,"title":"Ask HN: Graduated at a poor time,suck at interviews but want to be a programmer","type":"story"}],[8189533,{"by":"saticmotion","descendants":9,"id":8189533,"kids":[8192233,8190642,8192356,8191212,8189954,8194835],"score":4,"text":"$17","time":1408288469,"title":"Ask HN: Should higher education be expensive?","type":"story","url":""}],[8184489,{"by":"enrmarc","descendants":3,"id":8184489,"kids":[8184611,8186051,8185975,8184511],"score":3,"text":"I don't know where to post this kind of question, but since SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) is a computer science related book, I though maybe here I would get an answer. So, I want to buy the book and Amazon says it has 683 pages. A paperback version would be ok? I mean, in terms of paper quality. I bought recently the book "JavaScript The Definitive Guide" (more than 1000 pages) and the paperback version sucks. \nAnyone has the Amazon paperback version of SICP?

(The hardcover is a little expensive for me).\n(I know that I can read the online version for free, but I want the physical book).","time":1408140159,"title":"Ask HN: About SICP book","type":"story","url":""}],[8157425,{"by":"junto","descendants":4,"id":8157425,"kids":[8158464,8157908,8159080,8158062,8157433],"score":4,"text":"I found the earlier post for non-devs and non-hackers fascinating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8154625

I thought it would interesting to have another thread which is the opposite.

So what type of software developer / hacker are you? What kind of company do you work for? How did you start off in the industry? What new technologies do you want to learn next?","time":1407605422,"title":"Ask HN: Who IS in the software industry or a hacker?","type":"story","url":""}],[8100636,{"by":"onetimeusename","descendants":41,"id":8100636,"kids":[8100844,8100736,8100751,8100746,8100803,8100784,8100834,8100825,8101085,8100760,8100782,8100869,8100914,8100773],"score":11,"time":1406607419,"title":"Jesse Jackson: Tech diversity is next civil rights step","type":"story","url":"http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/07/28/jesse-jackson-seeks-eeoc-scrutiny-of-tech-industry/13270991/"}],[8054221,{"by":"abstractbill","descendants":12,"id":8054221,"kids":[8054557,8054591,8054484,8054478,8057058,8054282,8054287,8054430,8054486,8054404,8054719,8061251,8065481],"score":9,"text":"Seeing the progress of spacex's VTOL rockets has made me wonder what's stopping us from using rockets to move things and people (if they don't mind the g-forces) around the planet.

I believe I read somewhere recently that you can move an ICBM between any two points on the planet in less than an hour. Seems like there are things - and people - we'd pay a big premium to move around the planet that quickly.

Is there some fundamental reason that makes this not work?","time":1405703521,"title":"Ask HN: Why don't we use ICBMs for transportation?","type":"story"}],[8030563,{"by":"sudeep1","descendants":5,"id":8030563,"kids":[8030578,8031742,8035249,8030836,8031475],"score":6,"text":"(I am not creating war and comparing Lisp and Haskell)

I want to learn Haskell and Lisp. But I am in puzzle to learn which one at first. If i learn Haskell first and it will be easier to learn Lisp or Learning Lisp at first will help to learn Haskell.","time":1405341339,"title":"Ask HN: Lisp or Haskell at first?","type":"story"}],[8018049,{"by":"speedyapoc","descendants":43,"id":8018049,"kids":[8018733,8018108,8018326,8019416,8021039,8018538,8018214,8018506,8018745,8018860,8019434,8018549,8018569,8018437,8018522,8018502,8018066,8019017,8020196,8019131,8018402,8018434,8018081,8018275],"score":17,"text":"$18","time":1405035761,"title":"Ask HN: Is it worth continuing my computer science degree?","type":"story"}],[7875208,{"by":"ZoFreX","descendants":10,"id":7875208,"kids":[7875290,7875226,7875270,7883944,7893618,7875257,7877838,7878707,7876064],"score":12,"text":"Until I heard about Swift, I was planning to learn ObjC in Q3 this year and get involved with a cool iOS project that uses it. Now that Swift has been announced, I'm wondering if this is still a solid career move, or if Objective C is now the latin of programming languages.

Will Swift completely supersede Objective C? To someone who knows neither but is interested in iOS and OS X development, would time spent learning ObjC be time wasted?","time":1402433017,"title":"Ask HN: Would I be crazy to learn Objective C now?","type":"story"}],[7855606,{"by":"tronium","descendants":10,"id":7855606,"kids":[7862611,7855618,7856920,7856109,7855726,7857284,7863881],"score":2,"text":"What is the best free IDE out there? Preferably ones that have multi-platform (especially Ubuntu) support, as well as multi-language support.","time":1402016093,"title":"Ask HN: What Is The Best Free IDE?","type":"story","url":""}],[7764026,{"by":"3rd3","descendants":34,"id":7764026,"kids":[7767709,7768917,7764493,7764212,7764237,7769891,7764390,7771376,7765133,7764399,7768960,7765345,7768719,7764091,7764604,7775339,7775485,7766417,7780188,7764537],"score":29,"time":1400440977,"title":"Ask HN: How would you change your life if there was a basic income?","type":"story"}],[7449728,{"by":"Dale1","descendants":148,"id":7449728,"kids":[7450013,7450101,7450061,7450422,7450590,7450964,7450191,7451078,7449799,7450255,7451145,7450000,7450064,7451975,7451144,7450065,7450774,7450892,7451162,7449998,7449925,7449852,7450336,7451448,7451715,7450870,7457305,7451150,7450242,7450919,7451040,7450804,7451313,7516240,7450175,7451463,7450258,7450477,7450559,7451483,7451705,7452092,7450565,7449942,7450125,7451097,7451716,7450428,7451853,7450454,7456277,7451251,7452238,7449890,7451768,7450495,7450444,7450388,7451477,7451619,7450182,7450048,7451071,7451102,7450287,7450363,7449910,7451266,7476589,7451591,7450208,7450833,7450148,7450965,7450437,7454791,7450233],"score":214,"text":"I'm currently a student and wonder how developers tend to earn their money? Do you work for someone as an employee or have you got your own company? Or is it a mixture of both throughout your careers?

I do work part time as a developer in a start up and can't help feeling i'm building a dream for someone else. Not that the experience isn't really good, (It definitely is and I learn more in work than in uni!) but i can't help feeling that the current university paradigm of work hard, good grades, get a job seems to be bit of a misnomer unless you're happy building things to make others wealthy whilst you earn £30,000 a year?

Unless i'm missing something important, I am young and naive after all!

This is a subjective question. I just want to get a few thoughts especially from you old timers who want to tell a youngster some home truths! :)","time":1395506298,"title":"Ask HN: How do you earn your money?","type":"story"}]]

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