Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Advantage and disadvantages of being a software engineer? Daniel Caspers, Software Development Engineer at Shure Inc., Keyboardist at likeabossa-com 382 votes Pros: Excellent compensation and benefits Co-workers can have rather diverse backgrounds You can pretty much find a job anywhere in the country or the world, so if your spouse...  Read More »

Linus Torvalds called C++ horrible. With new standards out since then and with even a newer one in the pipeline, is he still indifferent? Alexandru-Cristian Sarbu 87 votes Linus Torvalds definitely wasn't indifferent back then; he hated C++, and despised C++ programmers. I'd say it's unlikely that he would have shifted his opinion; probably h...  Read More »

Why does the government still use floppy disks (from what I have read) and what are you going to do about it? Ed Felten, Deputy U.S. CTO at the White House 688 votes I have never seen a floppy disk, nor a floppy drive, in the White House. I have a modern laptop, dual screens on my standing desk, and I can work reasonably offsite and off...  Read More »

Management:  How do we handle this over-ambitious junior developer? Tony BenBrahim 206 votes I lost the best developer I ever worked with with a company policy just like that. She was outperforming other developers in everything but pay, and she was just one year o...  Read More »

Are elderly Japanese still mad (or bitter) at the U.S. for Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Yu-Hsing Chen 358 votes Hayao Miyazaki often hailed as the Walt Disney of Japan, was the son of the founder of Miyazaki Airplanem , most famous for being one of the primary aviation parts manufac...  Read More »

Is being a member of Mensa seen as a valuable trait when looking to hire someone? Dan Holliday, I read. 215 votes NO WAY. I frequently (like, once or twice a month) see "MENSA" mentioned on a resume. I do not automatically throw the resume into the shred container, but I'm OH so te... Read More »

What are some cool ways programmers customize their laptops? David Ecale, Computer Systems Analyst/Prgrammer with OS Experience from IBM. UNIVAC & CRAY 528 votes First, "BUY THE RIGHT LAPTOP!" Yup, just the right laptop makes things easy. Here's an example: 1) Dell Precision M6300 (from eBay for $125): A) 2.4GHz dual core CPU ... Read More »

What are the ways to destroy US aircraft carrier? Juan Rabat 216 votes Because of the commets I have gotten, I would like to make a clarification before you read the answer; I do not think that sinking a carrier would happen, not because it is...  Read More »

Who will win a war between China and Israel? Why? Elke R. Weiss, New Yorker who loves to read 1.6k votes China would flatten Israel into a wonton and eat us for breakfast and have room for a second helping. China-1,355,692,576 people Israel-7,821,850 people ... Read More »

Which backend programming language should I learn in 2016? Brendan A R Sechter, Everything about me is complicated. 202 votes Elixir.   Facebook bought WhatsApp for a ridiculous amount of money for a reason. WhatsApp was running Erlang on FreeBSD and managed two million concurrent connections at one ...  Read More »