I'm looking for a job in Canada (vancouver or toronto preferably) that would sponsor me as 'arranged employment'. I'm pretty great with C++ (4+ years), Lua. My focus has always been on gamedev, 3D rendering.

I've also done professional webdev work with RoR, my Ruby is not ultra idiomatic so I wouldn't say I'm excellent at it, but I can get the job done. Also know my way around Javascript, though I'm really rusty.

I'm from Brazil and living here currently but I want to relocate and have taken all the necessary steps :)

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Great advice.

I'd add to those book recommendations 'The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master' as well, great and fun read from beginning to end and good to open at any spot and read just a section.

Also a fantastic read, Peter Norvig's "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" (http://norvig.com/21-days.html), read that one ASAP, good to calibrate your expectations, when I first read it was both at once a cold shower of reality while simultaneously infusing in me a drive to become a competent and skilled programmer.

Have you looked into CMake to alleviate your compilation woes?

I recently started using it and its been very useful so far.

I'm 24 and I've been coding C++ for the past 4 years, it was my first language and remains the one I use the most, though I've used Ruby professionally most recently, I'm trying to get a C++ gamedev job now.

So its not just the older crowd, it very much depends on what you're trying to do I think.

Couldn't make the big "WELCOME TO FLYBYCHAT" left pane go away, so it felt like there was a lot of screen real state that was left unused.

Also the HN lurker I was chatting with raised a good point: there should be different colors for "You" and "Them", would make it much easier to see the flow of the conversation.

EDIT: Would also be easy to add a horizontal bar, to track the last portion of chat you saw before you switched tabs/removed focus from browser

More reason to hope facebook goes down in flames, and the sooner the better.

"Thank you CrunchBase and _Charlise_ Rose"

Thought I'd point out :)

Thanks :-)

Jobs wants to keep the walled garden pure of corruption.

Says not to eat of the fruit of the tree of porn, lest the consumer lose their innocence.

The serpent of webkit/safari tempts you.

What I've been wondering and am curious about is which of the straws is responsible for breaking the camel's back.

Could they have done the same thing, but in a larger timeline and have not generated the press frenzy? Was it that this last change was larger, was the combination of these 2 things?

Can't know for sure off course, but interesting to speculate IMO.

He lost me a bit earlier:

"I will eliminate Lua for the same reason [is not a general purpose language], though it has found a niche in the gaming community."

wat?

And then on a comment he says: "I should have written more about Prolog, Lua"

And proceeds not to write more about Lua, only Prolog.