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The author lost me at complaining that you need to know Ruby to know Rails. In case this was not self-evident, the Rails guide itself says plainly and early: "If you have no prior …

I heard a good idea - the faster you walk, jog or run; the faster your internet connection.

I love getting paid to program. The trick is in carefully selecting projects, teams, and clients plus actively setting expectations (e.g. staying in the driver's seat) such that yo…

I've tried fix-rate project delivery. It's a nightmare. Either you spend so much energy up-front to document in detail the finish line, or you spend so much energy on the backend f…

make that 5

Will you happily pay $20k if you know that someone else, billing by the hour for the same quality of work, will cost you $10k?

"Ignore advanced web developers complaining about ‘not another Bootstrap website’" I agree. It's your customers that matter. And unless you're building a product for advanced web d…

The image shown in this article does a good job of highlighting the usefulness of Glass. It's not just a heads up display. It's the smarts of knowing where you are, what you are do…

You forgot one type of person. "People who wait for the walk sign because they've got other things on their mind and make the conscious choice to leave deciding when to cross the s…

If "a colorie is a calorie", then why do you single out "eating too many carbs and sugars" as the cause of your occasional weight gain?

When I compare my 15 years in the office to my 7 years full-time telecommute, I can say without a doubt that I get a lot more work done working form home. Anyone who hasn't experie…

How do you know when a user is using stolen credit cards?

I'm not convinced of the premise that credit card companies have no incentive to reduce fraud. "Fraud isn't costing them money, it is costing you money. [they] pass the cost on to …

Let me try another way. Some Rails apps that are too unwieldy are barely even Rails apps. They just happen to have Rails at some layer of the tech stack, but also have many other n…

If it has no bearing, wonder why it's even mentioned in employees' bios. Just out of convention?

You're doing it wrong! Do not slap frameworks and complexity on top of Rails. Rails' strength has been unchanged from day 1 - "favoring convention over configuration". Rails is for…

Despite the consensus that college has little value to hackers, Stripe team members come largely from Stanford, Harvard, MIT and other major universities. Is this and the fact that…

Why does success == exit? I guess to each his own, but I would hate to be working for years on something with the goal being some finish line, especially when often "exit" for the …

It's almost like the diet and weight-loss industry. We spend way more time and effort on trying to solve the problems than on preventing them in the first place. Want to balance wo…

"Electric word life, it means 4ever and that's a mighty long time" Forever is longer than a lifetime and we've seen how well just simple "lifetime" hosting promises go.

Really? Working to keep customers helps keep customers?

What's to be "Sorry" about? I don't get it.

Why does the author keep hounding on "Again, I have not lived in MA or earned income in that state since 2003"? It sounds like MA isn't after anything to do with residency or wage …