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Being profitable allows you degrees of freedom you don’t have when you rely upon other people’s money. Suster inhabits a completely different universe than the one bootstrapped, pr…

Yeah, I was wondering what the hell the OP was referring to when it was claimed that web frameworks are stuck in the 90s. We use wicket both for our customer-facing sites, and most…

The mythical high paying jobs are in the "private sector." Well, no. In my local market, $120k is very, very well paid for a typical developer at a typical company. The > $120k sal…

...you are a developer evangelist... ...while evangelizing for a company... It should be noted that developer evangelist is a position that evangelizes on behalf of the developers,…

it's nice to be reminded that there's a world outside SV/London where people can actually get started (and funded). It's also nice to bear in mind that there's a world outside SV/N…

We developers are getting evermore control and power on the internet No, we're getting far less control and power, compared to the free-for-all of the Internet's early days. SOPA i…

she said yes. We’re announcing to our family on Christmas, as per our family tradition. Congratulations, Patrick.

Well, you'd be wrong. Speaking from personal experience, nobody cares about bootstrapped businesses. There is no glory, admiration, or external social validation of any kind to be …

Minor nitpick. A spouse, a mortgage, children, student loans -- life quickly throws you all kinds of things that you don't have the option of escaping. Once you've made the choice …

but a lot of people similar to Candidate A who can actually code are being presented with questions about linked lists and similar structures no-one who has written code for years …

Yes, and here's to hoping he doesn't do any business with Citibank, directly or indirectly.

And don't put off marriage. Why not? Elucidation on this point would be appreciated.

I'm not sure why the author of this article somehow thinks that geeks deny the existence of sexism in geek culture. The reality is that it's widely known and accepted. If the autho…

I've worked in software for roughly 14 years, and I've worked almost exclusively for startups during this time. I understand the concept of nepotism, so I get your point - I guess …

I can't speak to social networks or social media tools, but I can assure you that ecommerce has a lot of difficult problems to solve. To a first approximation, it's easy to throw u…

The product is probably about 90 % done already, the last 10 % should take no more than two weeks Spoken like a true non-technical cofounder :) Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, …

The completely honest answer to your question is that I'm not willing to start killing people. Seriously, no troll. I understand that the popularity contest driven plutocracy we cu…

I'm not calling you a liar, but I'm skeptical about stories like this. I can't even fathom any scenario in which someone more intelligent than a cucumber could behave in this manne…

You've also probably seen thousands of variants on "what ever happened to do no evil?" posted to myriad Google articles over the years, as well. Such is the nature of discussion. S…

How are you defining value creation? Why are investment sizes listed, but not earnings, or even revenue? Oh, that's right. It's 1999 all over again.