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What's the hot shit right now then, if not Node?

In contrast to Finland, where each of the cases above require me turning up in person. Had I just needed to mail off a form, it wouldn't be so much an issue.

All good points - from a foreigner's perspective in either country. I think the key here is not web/non-web but the government in question having an intelligent, joined-up registra…

> bureaucracy is ten years behind Finland. You still need to visit an office to get anything done instead of doing things over the browser I found this to be the case when moving t…

> it's not weird to see grown men (and brilliant devs) run around the office and shoot nerf guns at each other 1999 called, it wants its startup cliches back.

I think you want "boost" - kind of turns the meaning of the article on its head. The title is all I can see, however, because of the paywall.

Yes, to both - unfortunately personal circumstances keep me here in Finland. I'd recommend Amsterdam to anyone, however, it's a great city.

Maybe because he prefers languages where he has to do his own garbage collection ;-)

I don't know about Austria, here it's a case of "well, this is the industry standard, why do you deserve more? - oh you're a foreigner? Just be grateful we even give you a job" (ev…

I've had a similar experience in Finland - the shitty salaries (and lack of interesting work that isn't somehow tied to the sinking ship that is Nokia) are one reason I avoid Finni…

Probably the closest match to Snap (based on the OP's description) in Python is Pyramid: http://docs.pylonsproject.org/en/latest/docs/pyramid.html The routing system in particular …

What do you think is the best solution to the lack of capital? More Europe-wide VC funding (and networking) perhaps, so we're not so reliant on local funding?

Unfortunately this is all too typical of the tech scene in Finland. While there have been a few breakout successes (Rovio, F-Secure for example) and the tech talent in Finland is g…

> It's about being a dreamer No, that's being an idiot. A successful entrepreneur - as opposed to someone who loses their shirt - may be a visionary and a dreamer. But they take ca…

As a counterargument (although I agree with you in this case): it was just as well George Lucas had less control over the original Star Wars films, as the prequels proved.

This might be a good explanation for this behavior: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2858603/why-is-keyword-ha... tl;dr; use "is" only with singetons (None etc)

I've made good money fixing utter crap written by people who decided a new startup is the best time and place to learn a whole new technology at the same time. There's so many ways…

There's a pre-route macro: http://webnoir.org/autodoc/1.2.1/noir.core-api.html#noir.cor...

> It's the only reason I use an Algol dialect after 10 years of writing Lisps. Why not a Clojure stack ? Is Play itself, or Scala ?

Or expense, including accommodation.

There is very little cultural innovation either - popular entertainment nowadays consists of reboots, prequels, sequels, and karaoke hits (American Idol and the like). It's part of…

I've noticed that Tornado comes with its own MySQL wrapper, however I'm concerned it might have blocking issues. Does anyone have experience with using this ? Also, what do people …

You guessed wrong: > I remember how hard it used to be to arrange for my son to play with a classmate after school

> Django are learned by people already familiar with Python If only that were true. Like the OP I've been working with mostly legacy Django codebases the last few years and much of…