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Oof, thanks for reminding me about the Google Maps pricing increase. It was very difficult to understand their thought process, and we were pretty much forced to find alternative s…

I hope Last.FM never goes away; I've been tracking my scrobbles since 2005

Give SoCal a shot. You can get very competitive salaries when compared with NorCal right down here, and the cost of living is not quite as bad. I'm hiring Ruby devs down in Costa M…

You should see a doctor if it doesn't go away :-)

I guess that's one way of judging a software language's progress, sure.

It's certainly nice when talking in developer circles, but no, public perception is not the primary reason — it's more of a bonus :) I really enjoy some of the more flexible syntax…

You're not wrong, but those articles are 5+ years old and PHP has changed A LOT in recent years — especially since the release of v7. Still, that's not going to do much to change p…