As a novice programmer which type of company should one choose? A startup with high salary and less job security or an MNC with above average salary and better job security?

Do you add TODOs to your code?

From my experience, no one ever gets around to fixing the TODOS. They remain in code for eternity.

What is monkey-patching?

I have come across this term; and I am trying to understand it through few practical uses, if any; and how exactly is it different from overriding.

Do you think a mechanical engineer can be a good programmer?

Have you ever met a mechanical engineer who's coding these days? How are they doing? How did they start?

Is it good or bad to use a brand new programming language?

A language looks promising and claims to have solved many problems that other languages have. Should I dive in, and become an early adopter, or should I wait till it has a proper community? What are your thoughts?

Will computers create original ideas in near future?

Why did you switch from JavaScript to ClojureScript?

From the people who have worked / are working with ClojureScript; I want to know what are the ClojureScript specific features that you really loved, that made you appreciate its use in place of Vanilla JavaScript.

Can you use Redux solely on the server side where you don’t have to deal with any UI?

This might be a noob question! Since Redux is pretty agnostic about where it is supposed to be used, and just a state management library; I was wondering, are there any use cases for it to be used on the back-end / server side?

What are a few application examples where one shouldn’t use Redux, along with React?

Or any Flux like architecture for that matter… What are a few applications where using something like Redux would be considered an overkill; along with your React components?

Can NodeJS (V8) ever become a contender to JVM?

Granted JVM has a lot of features, when compared to the V8 engine: multi-threading garbage collection support for multiple languages But do you see a future where V8 would become as powerful as the JVM