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From another post on their structure[1] > Only a minority of board members are allowed to hold financial stakes in the partnership at one time. Furthermore, only board members with…

The entire urban core of Austin, Round Rock and Cedar Park are tolerant and generally cosmopolitan, save for the East Side (east of I-35), which has a larger Hispanic demographic a…

I don't agree with Aaron Swartz on very much, but we agree on hiring practices: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hiring

The title is from Paul Ford (the author) himself, on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ftrain/status/69952439767404544

Austin, Texas / On-site only / Gowalla Incorporated A fun company with interesting problems, stellar designers and an unrelenting focus on great user experience. We're looking for …

I should hope that we're not all waiting with bated breath for the White House to endorse every bill that substantially alters the structure of government.

There seems to be a recurrent theme of social marginalization when reporting on software and especially open source. Specifically, opening this article with the fact that the guy "…

Thiel is still an extreme pessimist with regard to the future and this seems to be his attempt at embracing the views of his intellectual opponents by running the "Optimistic Thoug…

Make your HTML output lowercase. It's the predominant style these days. Also agreed that drawing divs from scratch (no image upload) could be useful.

Causes - http://exchange.causes.com/jobs/ - San Francisco (on-site only) Hiring generalist engineers to work with Ruby/Rails and build something that makes a tangible difference in…

The puzzle has been added back again, as a bonus.

I did indeed remove it. We use it to filter the masses on Craiglist, but I find it less compelling for the jobs page itself. Though considering this audience maybe I should have le…

I wouldn't recommend skipping college if you can get in and either afford it or are willing to incur the debt. Even after $25K+ of debt and 5 years of undergrad for two degrees, I …

Causes is hiring software engineers & sysadmins in Berkeley (soon to be SF): http://exchange.causes.com/jobs/ 25MM+ active users, Ruby, distributed databases. Lots of scaling chall…

A necessary component of mass production is consistency. Like it or not, Rails has reached the masses of web developers and enforces its constraints and conventions to facilitate t…

I like it. Feature Request: Allow it to run invisibly (no Dock or menubar icon).

Or you just don't get wasted and make an ass of yourself if you don't want people to think that you sometimes get wasted and make an ass of yourself.

John Resig has posted a eulogy: http://ejohn.org/blog/eulogy-to-_why/

It totally satisfies my compulsive need for correctness.

For pedantry's sake, this sounds like enabling wealth rather than creating it. The wealth doesn't originate with the law, so isn't created by it.

A corollary to the move toward smallness, if I might: http://h3h.net/2008/12/economy-of-software-maintenance/

Excellent response. It perfectly distills the difference between Paul's claims and DHH's (and my) perspective.