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Yup.

Agreed, I wouldn't work for Amazon even if I was without a job and they offered me a 250k salary. My experience with them was negative x3

My worst failure was a 3am production database drop half-asleep. We had backups but we lost an hour of transactional data. My worst IT failure to date.

This is a good article, but I've found that using swap is a bit expensive and slow. Why not just purchase a cheap VPS from bitkumo.com and then use the swap only when necessary. Sw…

Stick with what makes you happy. If you want to work in Ruby, target jobs that are Ruby/Rails oriented and keep on coding in Ruby. Unless you are interviewing for an engineer posit…

I've been writing Ruby/Rails code for the last 4.5 years and I've noticed that I'm very weak on the front-end (JS/jQuery/etc). It's a pain point for me as I have a hard time wrappi…

Technical books: via paperback/hardback Any other book: Audible