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Nope, I'm always there on day 1 also :D. They always do such a great job, I'm always around poking installing/trying out new enhancements and sub projects for at least a week.

Take your business elsewhere is step 1. Your information/service is not guaranteed if they aren't willing to protect it.

Interesting, no Textpad?

There are ethical and economical reasons for low to zero-cost mp3s. 1. The artist actually gets even more of a shit deal with digital distribution than they did with physical media…

Get out of the company. Find yourself something laid back where you can see your family as much as you would like. Sounds like you have the resume to push telecommuting during hiri…

Maybe you've never heard the famous expression "Ideas are like *, everybody's got one".

That's not Murphy's Law, its lack of coverage.

After reading this thread, I've realized I have to make sure my next employer actually believes in testing. I don't know how anyone can move forward in a long term application with…

I chose tests all functionality, but thats completely unrealistic. We TRY to test everything beyond just critical items, but we'll never get there.

Honestly I had no interest in anything associated with Kevin Rose thanks to Digg.

This is a very real issue, that's why there are no Android apps.

Exactly, its not a bug, its a feature. Just like mass assignment.

I find this true, but its also true of other languages. Like first commenter noted, closed minded Rails devs are usually close minded.

Compiler safety for the design. Implement a base class, and force implementation for sub classes. I know that CS philosophically is about keeping JS's openness, but I feel it would…

Standard Coffeescript (in my experience). edit: hah, just saw who i replied to. double edit: the renderer hierarchy he created is yet another good example of why I believe coffeesc…

Crunchpad anyone? I found him too infrequent to be a major reason to visit the site. I suspect that most of the traffic hit techcrunch thanks to the endless link baiting of MG or p…

If I remember correctly some guy posted lulzsec member identities online after simply following them in irc..

what a pointless change.

tl;dr don't take your tesla camping, or it will 'discharge' cough brick cough

After everyone saw how it easy it was to write your own blog in Rails, everyone ... used Wordpress anyway. The Rails use case was always truly limited. I still don't know any appli…

A wild badass appears!

The people who learned with Rails always make me chuckle. The only reason Rails got anywhere was because of scaffolding and the hype that surrounded it - which of course already ex…

Beware, DHH might show up at your doorstep rabid and frothing at the mouth.

Continuations were all the rage a few years ago, after yet another doomed resurgence in web lisp. I agree, it is completely awful, and I'd rather have semi disoraganized link order…

Potentially losing the car after a week of NOT using it qualifies as devastating to me.