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You can brogram with different sexes, do it all the time. Being PC all the time is exhausting. The females that I pair with would laugh at this term and not take offense to it. In fact by saying, "Let's brogram" would indicate the equality that I feel of that female with fellow male programmers.

Lighten up and have a sense of humor once in a while. Life is supposed to be fun, not a myriad of social rules and regulations.

I think it is beyond IE6 now. I am seeing more and more projects that are "okay" with a degraded version of the site on a non-modern browser.

Web developers cringe at shadows, and "non-boxy" effects, because we know the hoops we need to jump through to get there. However, if the project is okay with a "degraded" version of the site, then you can use CSS3 and save time.

I think the mindset of "support" has to change. Sure, have your site work on older browsers, but the good stuff happens when you see it on a modern browser. Users who use shitty browsers, are used to sites looking shitty.

In a lot of cases the cost of acquiring customers is high in the beginning. Thats a business scaling issue that you solve when you determine that you have a real business.

The landing page trend is just for early adopters, I would venture a guess that it has little to no impact on the success of a startup.

Being a transplant from the Midwest myself, I would love to see a tech boom there. Great outdoor life, beautiful summers and nice people.

Pretty good but ill see your bet and raise you:

http://www.evangelcathedral.net

Austin, TX

Involver http://involver.com

Based in San Francisco, but has a new Austin office. They want RoR devs. Im just a dev myself, but I want to help build an awesome work atmosphere.

My point goes deeper - reddit hates RoR. Mention ruby and you will be trampled.

The OP is seemingly negative on Ruby (which is cleared up through subsequent comments) and he gets trampled. When I say "this isn't reddit" I mean, there isn't the same RoR hatred here that one notices there. That's all.

In other words, this isn't reddit.

It was an interesting recruiting idea, but it's out there now.

Optimize your query.

It's unlikely to experience that bad of performance from your display logic. (unless you are trying to display millions of rows at once)

I would argue that programming is very accessible. All languages in use today can be obtained and learned for free, save for ones time.

I would agree that these environments make programming easier and more approachable.

The idea of a graphical programming environment is interesting, but I have never seen one that is good.

I used LabView in college and it was okay. I interact with another graphical programming environment in my current contract and I hate it. I probably wouldn't hate it if I didn't know how to read and write code.

I don't see these things as good training wheels either. They obfuscate the details that are required to be a good programmer. It would probably be more daunting to a newcomer to lift up the hood and see miles of code that they can't easily relate to the graphical version.

Im skeptical, but if it does create more interest in the platform, that is a good thing.

You'll figure it out, don't worry about it too much. Sacrifices will happen, but you will adjust. There is no right or wrong way to do - regardless of the countless words of advice that you will hear from everyone. Congratulations, it's not easy, but is very rewarding.

Exactly, long-term is the key. The majority of us are not going to be instantly wealthy (in the sense of money or passion).

I recall another story about a girl who attended NYU and has a mountain of debt and can't find work.

At the end of the article it stated her major, and it wasn't something that was marketable in today's economy.

Which sounds slightly arrogant. As a reader, I can see the mistakes made. The reality in any economy is that a womens studies graduate from NYU is going to have more difficulty finding work than say an engineering graduate from a state university.

If the goals for employment are self-actualization, then be prepared for a hunt in the beginning. If the goals are to earn a paycheck - any paycheck, then there is plenty of work out there.

I am afraid that a lot of people in my generation have a very strong sense of entitlement.

I hate to say it, but if you have been looking for work for a long time and turn down an offer.... You can't complain.

There is a saying about beggars and choosers.

I completely understand being in a job that I dislike, but a job that I dislike is better than no job and no prospects of a job.

A single position can build a resume and open more doors. This was a foolish mistake it seems. I would love to hear about a follow up. Did this guy land the job that he wants?

I've encountered this numerous times with charting data for others. I find a great top level view of some key data, but it flies over their head and it never gets used.

This is probably our failure, not theirs. We can't expect our audiences to understand something the way we understand it.

That was a very engaging read.

Agreed, if nothing else, kids motivate you. They represent something greater than yourself, which can cause you to work harder and be more determined. They also provide inate happiness and joy outside of your work life.

You will be less risky when you have kids. However, not all risk is worth it.

I often found that in college I performed better (higher GPA) with a higher work load than with a lighter work load. I think it is because I was forced to be more efficient, sharper, and wiser with my time. Having kids and starting a business is analagous. However, this is only my personal experience.

That's what I do too. However, there are a lot of users who simply want to buy something. There are also a lot of users who are on Facebook all the time. It almost IS the internet to them.

I chose to go the other route which takes even longer. Load the XFBML version, and include the open graph meta tags.

I did the same thing that you did, wrapped it all in a like_url helper.