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It's too Clockwork Orange-y. Just develop some freaking self-control.

"Cheers, we'll just agree to disagree!" Sorry, you don't get to pre-empt all further discussion after saying what you want to say. :) "Programming has a lot to do with people" Ever…

"I don't see the point you're trying to make." Might want to work on your reading comprehension then. "We're talking about freedom in hacking abilities here." We're talking about j…

"They hire for talent and passion" Microsoft used to say something very much like that. But at the top of the application: "State your skillset". ...You use PHP, Perl, and Java? No…

"and lead groups" What does that have to do with programming? A lot of programmers find the notion of management extremely distasteful. ;) "They can move from attractive job to att…

"I'd imagine that if DHH really, truly wanted to work on the Linux kernel, he'd have no trouble getting hired to do so." That's pretty silly. Just because someone is famous for a R…

That stuff is really easy. And you may convince them to join you after all, like YouTube and the media companies they parasite off of.

Apparently my Flash 9 is not 9 enough. Flash sucks.

Why do you even look at ads? http://adblockplus.org/

Google is large enough it can take on people with almost any expertise. But what if DHH wanted to get a job hacking the Linux kernel? Or Frankel wanted to get re-hired to AOL to wo…

You said: "Up-and-coming" != "the very best". I'm not talking about up-and-coming skill-wise , I'm referring to level of fame or notoriety. What it really boils down to is whether …

"If you have a decent reputation there will always be somebody practically begging for you to take their money to do some work for them." That's not the same as being able to make …

"And the very best hackers tend to be idealistic. They're not desperate for a job. They can work wherever they want." I've heard PG repeat this but I think it's fallacious. A lot o…

Ha, with EC2 you can get around that now. Separate your website IP from your crawling IP, and every time CL blocks an IP, switch to a new one. Eventually they'll have to block the …

Facebook. But they haven't switched to doing good.

DHH by far and that isn't to say the others weren't good, just that his was stellar by comparison. In other years PG might have won -- nothing wrong with it, it was pretty good, ju…

Vesting over 4 years...