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And where were people like you several years ago when the laws were signed that allow the government to tap into network lines? A hero and their army are useless when they're late …

Are you serious? You can question everything you want as an ordinary citizen. The moment you sign a contract, specially for the military, you agree to keep your word. So, right, ho…

Bottom line, he's a traitor. Beyond that, most of the laws that helped start this were set into effect years ago. Where were the people crying then? Most people complain about havi…

No way, I don't vote for traitors. All his US supporters are a bunch of Benedict Arnolds. BTW, just voted for Miley. She definitely made my year.

Go anywhere outside of the US and Europe and they would laugh at you. Our culture (hispanic) takes it as a sign of weakness and petty complaints. Most people are too worried trying…

Agreed, I actually had some trouble with this sentence: "Science — psychology in particular..." Psychology, in itself, is not a science. This diminishes any of his further argument…

We came across this issue as well, we'd been wasting too much time setting up Postgres. RDS seemed liked a good choice, except that MySQL is just that much worse than Postgres. We …

Seems stupid and pretentious. Furthermore, the market is so hot that I can reach whoever is employing directly. Convincing them to pay more because they don't have to spend anythin…

First, an office less world is a dream right now. If you plan to be hyper-competitive, there's no substitution to 'water-cooler' talk. Technology is nowhere near being able to repr…

Super sweet, good luck. I personally got started in High School and would have loved more advanced classes. The issue was that they bundled people together into the same computer c…

What is there to explain? As a software developer, experience matters. If you're building disposable demos, you probably have more problems than building software.

Absolutely agree, and I personally use this as a potential red flag for new people we hire. Legacy systems have gone through so many fixes and shifts that it's almost impossible to…

Yeah, Chrome has been doing this for a while. It has actually been pretty annoying that FireFox wasn't doing so. My main dev environment is FireFox and i hate it when things work f…

Thinking about it, I'm sure they can be just as good. Regardless of age. I would guess it's like anything else. Constant exposure and practicing will breed excellence. I would just…

Not to be mean, but the author looks really young. Maybe I'm getting old, but I find it really hard to take advice from such young people. My personal take is that they're bypassin…

Thank God I've never HAD to do a complete re-write of anything. What the author describes sounds like a complete nightmare. On the projects I've worked on, I would like to think th…

Riak has been working really well for us at PaeDae. Thanks for such a great product! Can't wait what else is coming? If i had a feature request, it would be bulk data insert kind o…

I'm a 'ghetto' kid. Grew up in LA and El Salvador. The reason I haven't done a startup is because i simply don't have the monetary support. I have to pay for my mom and family, pay…

An average web developer in no way can compare to a lawyer or a doctor. First of all, doctors generally save lives. And they have to go to school for at least 8 years. Lawyers, alm…

Asking for telecommuting, equity, and time to work on other projects is ridiculous. I've gotten these requests from developers who have only done basic Rails projects. Do you think…

That's great, I don't expect an academic explanation but just having heard of it is pretty good. That question by itself is not a deal breaker. An 'engineer' should at least know a…

Well now you're arguing market value not entitlement, which I didn't say it was a bad thing. If you're a Rails dev, yeah you're valuable and you should be getting paid that much. H…

What dictates entitlement is asking or expecting something without actually having earned it. Obviously finance, doctors, and lawyers went to school for many years. They earned it.…

That's why i said it's a good thing. It bumps up the base developer salary and makes experienced developers even more valuable. At least those who are able to properly market thems…

Honestly, I'd more likely work w/ someone like you and teach them Rails than the opposite. MVC frameworks are very similar and a good developer should be able to switch easily. I s…