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> Also, what does the "structured" in "structured web programming" mean? I would guess it's a reference to the optional static typing. There's a growing movement behind static typi…

Is there a reason they didn't just call this ScalaScript?

There's an interesting extension of this line of thought. My sister-in-law works in Istanbul for a Greek company. She says that most of the actual profit-generating work done for t…

Related: Are you considering remote employees? There seems to be a trend of the top Rubyists working remotely (that's if you want a top Rubyist, I'm pretty sure you can find a comp…

I understand what you are saying...that Steve has the taste and design sense to guide Apple's development process. While I agree that this is true, I don't think this is why Apple …

Turkey has a lot of potential Software Engineering talent going to waste...shame there aren't more entrepreneurs looking to harness that unrealized potential.

But there is no mystery! All successful business people have the one same trick. Warren Buffet put it best: Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies…

I think you're wrong. The last couple pivots weren't even his (though I understand that they did have his approval).

City's have advantages independent of a location to work. For example, do you know where the individuals with the lowest carbon footprint in the entire USA live? New York city.

Clarke was right, about the technology. He was, unfortunately but rather predictably, so very wrong about people's willingness to adopt the technology. Currently, I'm looking to mo…

Thank you for doing the digging for me! I've been hearing all this controversy about overriding 'cd', but when I open a shell (with RVM installed), I still see the following: ~/Des…

Manhattan (well, it was just New York at the time) and Brooklyn were their own cities. Also, each NYC borough is in its own county (Manhattan --> New York County, Queens --> Queens…

Also worth noting that New Jersey is the only state to have a programming language named after it. Just saying...

Speculation on Steve Jobs' successor strikes me as, well, pointless. The dynamic that drives Apple today is very much the same dynamic that drove it at the start: Woz and Jobs. We …

Here's what I find most interesting about what has happened to the middle-class in America: When the middle-class in America was booming, you would have had to be crazy to leave Am…

Condolences to rtm and family. It's a poignant reminder of just how young our field is that we are mourning the loss of some true early pioneers. Imagine if you were a physicist ju…

To answer #1, I offer you the biographical sketch of Jens Skou, who decided to take up programming in 1988...at the age of 70: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureate…

Parrot ( http://www.parrot.org/ )

Not a bad idea...in fact, I'd wage there's a market for this sort of technology. :)

Wait...but it is the AT&T from the Bell System. The fact that it was one of the spin-offs buying back the mothership probably has little consequence in terms of attitudes and/or bu…

"Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when …

Probably true, but the money to be made is probably less than what can be made by catering to the 80% of people who buy supermarket tabloids and are influenced enough by the ads th…