You're not missing out on the certifications. When tech jobs became the big thing, certifications were a way to set a barrier to entry. Now, so many people are "paper certified" that it's little more than an expensive and time-consuming way to say "I know how to play the game" on your resume. If you say you're an…

I've found that most Gawker sites are a lot more palatable without the comment section, especially if you filter out the authors you don't like.

Yeah, that kind of place here would cost two arms and a leg just for the down payment. But I went to school in upstate NY, and housing costs were closer to what you described. It all depends on where you are and what features you're willing/able to pay for. I moved out here for a job, but the fact that I can walk…

Hair loss won. I get headbutts from my cat daily. Life is ok. :)

I already don't hate the Panamera. Now I don't hate it even more.

Okay, I was generalizing a bit (...okay, a lot). Obviously it depends on where you're looking- if you want a nice area of OC or one of the beach cities, it's going to cost you. There are definitely places where you can find a cheaper place to live, but you'll have to make a compromise. Location, size, age of…

In SoCal, $1600 gets you a small one bedroom apartment. I'm not sure you could find a three bedroom for $2100.

Damn. I literally could not possibly care less about Beckham, but that's a sexy car.

It looks like there's a a similar site ("Code Maven") that goes over the basics. In fact Game Maven suggests you go through that first if you have no experience programming.

It should be nicer than where I live- it costs several months' rent for a ticket on the plane.

If you take this approach, you really, REALLY have to make sure you own up to it. Nothing guarantees that your kid will grow up to be a Machiavellian sociopath like teaching them that honesty is bad because it'll result in a full-on adult temper tantrum, and that lying is better because it has a greater chance of…

Punch out the middle (core), cut in half vertically, cut the halves vertically again. Four equally sized pieces with zero core, ten seconds or less.

Here's a better approach- register a domain that's your full name, and send job-seeking-related messages from that. HR won't care, but a hiring manager might be curious as to what else lives on that domain. A simple landing page that reads like your "greatest hits" should do the trick.

Sigh... posts like this remind me of why I lost my star here.

Personal and anecdotal experience. I tried it once, it ended badly. Tried again several years later and that was far worse. So yeah, that definitely colors my view of the idea. In addition to that, I've known quite a few other people who've had similar results. I don't mean to imply that it's impossible to manage…

My takeaway from this video is dear god why would anyone trust that super-creepy robot?

Here is the next big game for Nintendo's Wii U displayed on my TV. Do you see something strange in this picture?

What's the point of a gigantic mousepad if more than half of it is under the keyboard?

What gave it away, was it the pixels?

Doesn't Dolphin already do Flash, for free?