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How do I transform myself from an average programmer with a CS degree to one of the best programmers in ten years? Martin Ivancic 61 votes Find a mentor. If you're the most experienced programmer in the room, you're probably in the wrong room. Learn to love puzzles, and the frustration that that they bring. The...  Read More » How do I stop somebody from viewing the source code of the webpage in browsers? Brian Bi, software engineer and all-around nerd 532 votes I would discourage you from trying to obfuscate HTML. Here's why: You won't stop experienced web developers from copying your design if they want; it is not too hard to rep...  Read More » How do I learn to write simpler, more efficient code with fewer lines? Mattias Petter Johansson, Software Engineer @ Spotify 462 votes I would start by learning about map, filterand reduce. They can be used instead of loops and if statements in almost all cases and create code that is much shorter and cle... Read More » Apple in 2015: Why is Apple returning $200 billion to shareholders instead of lowering prices for consumers? Colin Foster, Programmer, Scientist, House Builder,... 486 votes The executives at Apple are just the managers of the collective asset of all shareholders and their obligation is to use the profits in a way that is in the shareholders' b... Read More » Why can’t the police in America shoot below the knee? Chris Bast 1.4k votes Have you ever tried to shoot someone in the knee? I once visited a firing range where they had some full head-to-toe target silhouettes. They would give these to people and... Read More » Economics: If everybody in the world had enough money, would there be any people who'd like to do menial jobs? How would the social and economic structure change in that situation? Jordan Phoenix, Founder, Uncommon Sense 390 votes I'm very happy to have been asked this question; I've gotten this one dozens of times from different people throughout the years (but this is the first time on Quora). Man... Read More » How difficult is it to be a CEO? Geoff Cooper 8.6k votes Well, I was a CEO of a £5bn turnover, 25,000 person quoted company for 10 years. As with every new job, I kept a timesheet for the first year to check that my activities ma... Read More » How well do soldiers sleep during war? Jon Davis, Writer and Blogger on Military, Veter... 2.1k votes At least 92% of the time we sleep just fine. Pictures like this are the extreme and not the norm. For most of us, almost our entire deployments are spent in what we call "... Read More » Does not having a Facebook account put you at a disadvantage when applying for an internship or job at Facebook? Dima Korolev 356 votes Yes, by quite a bit. It makes it impossible to apply. Moreover, after creating one, I managed to be a no-show for my first interview: ... Read More » What programming languages should a modern-day programmer have in his/her arsenal? Joshua Levy, Amiable curmudgeon 1.6k votes First, breadth: A strong software engineer should have a basic level of comfort -- that is, be able to understand code and write something nontrivial -- in these languages:... Read More »