Great idea, I would use something like this. Would be helpful to add tags/categories with grade level/difficulty if students want to use this for studying at their level.
I will still enjoy programming at 50 and will still want to it for money. But will the ageism in this industry permit that to happen? It feels like the tech culture must change to accept that there are good programmers who aren't in their 20s.
This might be the most insightful comment I've read on HN. I think this is the point people either miss or don't bother to address when claiming that they can just search for "arcane" facts instead of memorizing them.
Very interesting.."indecipherable spaghetti code that breaks when you remove those 400 NOOPs because it's adapted to the cache size of this particular CPU" - sounds a little like our "junk" DNA (though I suspect the analogy breaks down in the details.)
Sure..and put the rest of us out of business? : ) Although it is interesting to think about what the make-up of the genetic material would be. Just a string of 0s and 1s? CPU opcodes? Or maybe some higher level sub-units.
This is something I would be interested in using. Right now we use either email or Google docs. I drive to the grocery store and my wife puts together a list and beams it to my phone.
What would the process be for sharing a list created on the web with a mobile device? Emailing the generated URL? I don't see an option to send an SMS with the URL. Can users sign up for updates when a list is changed?
Seems that most (all?) of the start-up developer job openings posted on HN are based in SV. I wonder if there is another site like HN for NYC start-ups to advertise positions.