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This comment perfectly underscores what's wrong with a certain section of the startup community. It underlines the complete and utter lack of respect towards developers as human be…

"Running your own Apache Server" What is this the 90s? Considering how many better alternatives that are available on the cloud advising someone new to programming to set up their …

PHP is not an easy language for someone just learning programming, it has tons of annoying quirks and is hard to debug. Visual Basic is better, I'd also reccommend Ruby. Not only i…

We need to remember that Ruby on Rails is still a relatively obscure technology in the grand scheme of things. The average CS grad straight out of college does not know RoR. Most o…

If Zuckerberg was a more likable guy like Leo Laporte or Kevin Rose I'd feel sympathy for him. The Winklewosses might be tools but Zuckerberg is hardly more sympathetic.

This is a terrible terrible terrible idea. You don't want your users to feel that you are exploiting them. It will just pi$$ them off. Just go with a bunch of well placed ads.

Oh yes, damn learning. That pesky little utterly useless thing. Heck burning for eternity in the fires of the underworld is preferable to having learning "inflicted" upon oneself.

Not at all. The article mentions David Heinemeier Hansson but it completely misunderstands DHH's philosophy, if anything DHH in favor of this kind of approach- working on the side …

I second this. Although it does not have immediate practical payoff as learning something like Javascript or even Java would have. But spend a month of two manipulating memory at t…