"This kind of thing happens all the time"
Perhaps this is why he is standing up against this?, perhaps he thinks that someone's got a put an end to all this and that he must take matters into his own hands?
If you feel remorseful about self-posting, you can do what jacquesm did in his post about his experience dealing with VC's (great post by the way). He just put the whole thing here.
I normally try to schedule blocks greater than 4 hours for programming and i do everything else on the remaining block of time. This normally requires a little bit of planning the day before and may be disrupted by peers or emergencies, but it works for me.
Maybe you're right, but upper management knows what are the critical applications and those who deliver fixes and improvements to those apps, will shine. This happens at big companies too (at least it does in AutoZone, my current work place), perhaps this is the exception to the rule, but it's what I've experienced.
I strongly disagree with his "developers need to brag" section...in my experience, those developers that brag the most are those whose code is a negative contribution (pardon the oxymoron).
Also, if you're generating a bunch of good code and solving hard problems, people are going to notice you.
It's such a relief for those of us who share that fear. I stumbled upon this letter yesterday, it's a complaint that a 98 year old lady wrote to her bank's CEO. (http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art42630.asp)
These two ladies are an excellent example that age is not an impediment for doing things (or doing something about things...in the latter case).
Contrived?,yes, useful?, yes (at least in my experience), do i plan to use that formula in every interaction?, i don't think so, it wouldn't be natural.
Thank you for sharing the example of the kid who "rained all over himself", it clearly shows that exceptions apply.
This was shared by a co-worker due to a problem i had at work, the business and engineers speak a very different language...anyway, the article has proven useful many, many times for me, hope you guys like it.
I read your blog, and i found the idea behind biz teen interesting, but i think you're targeting a rather small market (the world doesn't have as many young entrepreneurs as it needs).
If you don't mind getting an idea from a complete stranger, why not do a social networking app for people within the same age range but focusing on something that appeals to a wider crowd (parties, traveling[backpacking through the world comes to mind], choosing the right school, etc).
My advice is that you leave the information, any serious buyer will search "cherrypeel" and eventually stumble upon this thread, if you change your mind and take it off, it will make a bad impression.
I've never sold a web site, but i know for sure that incomplete information (and even worse, there would be evidence of it) only sparks mistrust.
Stanford's CS Ed library (particularly Nick Parlante's linked list and binary tree problem sets) is a fantastic resource for understanding the C language, it is the way i learned it.
There's a quote, i don't remember who came up with it but it goes something like this:
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas, if they're any good, you'll have to push it until it sinks in their heads", it's very likely that at first you'll be the only believer.
Depends on the language, if I'm reading Java code, then I'll use eclipse (ctrl+h is much better than ctrl+right click, when searching for a methods definition, it's the only way i can follow code that uses interfaces a lot).
If you're reading C code, vim + cscope + grep work great.