Remember that no matter how you code, there are always both better and worse ways of doing it.
Don't get too polarized about the language you start out with. All programming languages have pros and cons.
When coding, Don't Repeat Yourself, use source control, and learn to be independent and resourceful by looking up stuff on your own instead of looking for someone to ask about it.
Doesn't sound too old-fashioned to me, given the popularity of online radio. Still, I'm not sure I'd be able to focus on stuff if I had radio on all the time.
I know that much, but when socializing, I still want to be able to not be like "huh?" when someone brings up, say, Russia's suspension from the G8/G7 over their annexation of Crimea.
It's minor, but it would be nice to be able to drop the subject more often when it's unneeded, like being able to say "Raining" instead of "It's raining". Some latin languages have this, and would provide English with a bit of terseness. For example, in this comment, I used "it" three times before the first period, excluding the quote.
Also, I find verbs to be overused in English, whether for intent, desire, location, hypothetical situations or other stuff. Some extra adverbial suffixes would be a nice alternative.
I don't see why a time crunch is an appropriate reason to ask for help. As a junior, there's little responsibility you have to assume w.r.t. the success of the project. If it fails for some reason that may be related to you, you were probably poorly managed. A competent boss would notice that you struggle and give your task to someone else in order to meet deadlines.
Seems to be here to stay, but I can't quite figure out why. The only thing I liked about it when I tried it out was the gotool, but it was hardly a reason for me to switch, given that I find the language itself kinda poor. Sure, it has cute syntax, but doesn't seem to provide much else that I couldn't do in another language, especially with contenders like Rust and Nim, or just plain old C, which is well-supported almost everywhere.
Are you being serious? Valid criticism isn't the same as hating on the playa', to use your apparent vernacular. Many would consider criticism to be a considerate act and an opportunity to learn from one's mistakes. Just because you're not one of those people it doesn't mean everyone else is being mean, not to mention that many of the comments here are about YC itself rather than the article's author.
Also, YC isn't just about getting "sweet sweet" money, it's also about commitment, many times to the point of collapse due to overwork. This may be a worthwhile tradeoff for you, but it doesn't mean that whoever is critical towards the way YC works is actually broke and bitter. I'm actually quite confident that HN has a sizable population of mature, fulfilled and well-off readers who have better things to do than to pick on the unsuccessful.
Not to mention that many young people are in way over their heads when getting into this, and lack the experience necessary to come out on top. Some pull through, but in this case it was clear more or less from the start that it wasn't the case.
No one's envious nor blaming them for being too young or with half-baked ideas, it's understood that young people are naturally less adept at things. My impression is that they're rather criticizing YC for using inexperienced youngsters as fodder for investors, for just dumping responsibility on them, then leaving them to do the sweating and feel like hell for getting in without a clear plan.
Before being judgemental and assuming the worst about people, maybe you should stop and evaluate your own negativistic projections.
I agree with it being arguably unethical, but mostly because it's a business model that tries to appease two sides (the techies with ideas, and the investors), which, in my opinion, easily leads to one side being product for the other side.
Some such businesses may work, like job recruitment, but I think it's mostly because the weaker side (the unemployed) doesn't have much to lose.
I agree with this, but I don't think it even has to be a startup. Big enterprises may also provide good learning environments, possibly even with experienced developers/marketers/whatevers as mentors, as opposed to a startup's possibly few young, inexperienced recent grads, hellbent on revolutionizing The Way You Think About Shoe Storage with their product called Shoely™ or whatever. Big companies also pay consistently.
I don't know though, the guy seems quite dishonest to me, more interested in means rather than ends, yet still claiming that he "never wanted to start a company simply for the sake of starting a company". To me, he never seemed to question whether he even had anything to give in the first place and address this issue first, if needed, but simply expected to run a successful startup fresh out of college.
Not sure I'd call his closing statements to be humblebragging though, it seems to be just a passing thing for him.
There are ways around it: using the code for the key directly north-west of the problematic character, and if that's a bad character go further, maybe wrap around, or try to follow through the problem character (a/& -> &/| -> |/f, thus f would be the code for a) etc.
As for remembering which sites have what restrictions, I can keep that stuff in my head (looking at you Microsoft), but I guess you may have more accounts than me. Then again, when a password fails, then all you'd have to do is retry with a safer version (and maybe only have two password kinds, for convenience - full-blown char support, and minimalistic lowercase-letters only, so you'd only have to retry a single time after the first failed login).
Personally, my biggest problem with this card is that it doesn't provide enough value.
The rest of us could also make up our own password generating techniques as well, and have c@td0g11!el8oo8, c@td0g11!no5@m@ etc.
el8oo8 is google backwards - but coming up with a word scrambling technique isn't hard, as many conspiracy theorists ought to know better.
This wouldn't provide cipher encoding, but someone already mentioned https://www.passwordcard.org/, and as you said, this is for the rest of us.
Remember that no matter how you code, there are always both better and worse ways of doing it.
Don't get too polarized about the language you start out with. All programming languages have pros and cons.
When coding, Don't Repeat Yourself, use source control, and learn to be independent and resourceful by looking up stuff on your own instead of looking for someone to ask about it.