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Strongly disagree with this meme.

There's a long, wonderful tradition of competitive hacking and nerdery: soap box derbies, spelling bees, egg drop competitions, balsa wood bridge building contests, and trivia bowls, to name a few. Since when did competition stop any of these from being fun ways to learn new things, show off your skills, and make friends?

Edit: Happy to see it's been restored.

There's a huge opportunity for you to do that, but only if you open up participation. Because submissions and comments are limited to a few users, the kid with a cool product will only get eyes on it if she gets the right person's attention, which defeats the purpose.

Background jobs are a common case. How many web applications never send an e-mail?

"People." Why don't you write one instead of just criticizing theirs from the sideline?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_%28computer_science%29

Gary Bernhardt's about as credible on this as one can be, as he's literally recorded hours of himself building working software with TDD.

From the article:

These tests are fast enough that I can hit enter (my test-running keystroke) and have a response before I have time to think. It means that the flow of my thoughts never breaks. If you've watched Destroy All Software screencasts, you know that I'll sometimes run tests ten times per minute. All of my screencasts are recorded live after doing many takes to smooth the presentation out, so you're seeing my actual speed, not the result of editing.

I understand disagreeing, but responding to this post with "show, not tell" just makes it look like you haven't read the article.

From the article:

    AWS DynamoDB: A NoSQL database service that allows scalability and many other features.
    AWS.SNS: A Simple Notification Service that allows push notifications.
    AWS.SQS: A Simple Queue Service that allows the creation and management of queues.
    AWS.S3: The Simple Storage Service that allows object storage and management, one of the most used services.
    AWS.STS: A Security Token Service that provides a temporary access token.

The guy behind it, Josh Tauberer, also wrote GovTrack, which was (and still is) important for anyone who builds things with Federal government data.

Totally right. Like gingers, women have no history of being discriminated against, harassed, or ostracized, certainly not in our industry. Who do they and their white knights think they are, acting like women sometimes get treated differently?!

So douchey.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/gro...

AngelList makes it easy to quickly contact many companies, but I highly recommend you pick just a handful of highly interesting prospects and reach out with a note explaining why you'd be a great fit.

My advice would be to plan to spend 15 hours a month (5 hours of research on consulting practices, 5 hours of actively pursuing leads, and 5 hours of billable work) on this. Over time you should be able to ratchet down everything but the billable work.

Patio11, in particular, has written quite a bit about this sort of thing. I highly recommend checking these articles out:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro... http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-...

I think our industry would be better off with fewer people doing that.

It might be a mistake if his goal were "solving a genuine problem." It's decidedly not a mistake if his goal is to increase his income by $100,000.