15:[[7538478,{"by":"wilsonfiifi","descendants":16,"id":7538478,"kids":[7540598,7538540,7538494,7539230,7539514,7538884,7538990,7569537,7539965,7568741],"score":22,"text":"I'm currently reading "Data structures and Algorithms with Javascript" and I had a WTF! moment when I got to page 9 and read "...Javascript does not have a block scope..."

Meaning this piece of code works! Blimey!

  for(var i=0; i<=10; i++){\n    // do nothing\n  }\n\n  // access 'i' out of for loop\n  console.log("i = " + i); // i = 11

","time":1396732411,"title":"Ask HN: Am I one of the few JavaScript programmers who didn't realize this","type":"story","url":""}],[7562057,{"by":"wz3chen","descendants":10,"id":7562057,"kids":[7562167,7571568,7562210,7563343,7562607,7568725,7562389],"score":12,"text":"I'm a student with a year of web development experience (Rails/PHP).

I've been thinking about learning mobile development in order to jump on the mobile bandwagon. \nMaybe even taking 4 months off school, take a mobile development bootcamp and pursue other interests as well.

Do you think it would be worth it?\nOr should I not bother and simply specialize in web jobs?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks!","time":1397074679,"title":"Ask HN: As a web developer, should I learn mobile development?","type":"story"}],[7565803,{"by":"tbassetto","descendants":48,"id":7565803,"kids":[7566142,7566021,7566426,7566161,7565899,7567400,7566866,7566083,7566715,7566114,7566541,7567236,7566072,7566255,7566254,7566079,7566377,7568712,7566066,7566229],"score":26,"text":"One of my friends in his late-twenty has a technical master degree (not related to computer science) but he would like to change his career to become a software developer. He is not satisfied with his current job / working field and he is already learning HTML/CSS on his free time. A bunch of his friends are software engineers (me included).

I think it is possible for him to work hard and gain enough knowledge to find a job as a junior web developer in a few months (a year?) from now. But should he focus on JavaScript and single page applications? On a specific framework? Should he still learn a server site technology and if yes, which one?

I am a JavaScript developer so maybe I am seeing this whole story with blinders. What if learning iOS or Android would be a better use of his time in 2014? I may be wrong, but it looks like the market is looking for "native" mobile developers more than web developers.

What would you recommend to him?","time":1397136238,"title":"Ask HN: any advice for someone changing career to become a software engineer?","type":"story"}],[7566510,{"by":"aswin8728","descendants":23,"id":7566510,"kids":[7566597,7570428,7567134,7570004,7567133,7568686,7570872,7569167],"score":25,"text":"HN is often filled with success stories, which can give a false representation of the overall success that people are having. Instead of your biggest success, what is your biggest failure? How much did you lose? How did you rebound (if applicable)?","time":1397141021,"title":"Ask HN: How much money have you lost on side projects/businesses?","type":"story"}],[7545094,{"by":"krembo","descendants":8,"id":7545094,"kids":[7545433,7595968,7545099,7548320,7545519],"score":12,"text":"Although it is one of the most popular discussion boards on the internet, only rarely you see them in Google search results. Any ideas?","time":1396855922,"title":"Ask HN: Why is Reddit so poorly ranked in Google results?","type":"story"}]]

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created:	April 7, 2014
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