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What other changes have you made or do you intend on making to increase your privacy?

That's great to hear! Functional programming makes sense to me, but I'm sure it'll be a whole 'nother story once I start learning.

What's holding me back from learning it at all is a side-project I spend most of my free time maintaining. Labor of love (cause it sure ain't the money).

I haven't seen Elixir mentioned here in awhile. As it's the next language I'm interested in learning -- how's it coming along? How are people feeling about it after having more time with it?

You hit the nail on the head -- I am a full-stack/back-end dev. Always prepared to learn the next thing (provided it's in javascript, hah).

Similar experience here using Meteor + Ionic, exported with Cordova. I also feel like the skills I'm developing in web development are much more widely applicable than learning a particular mobile OS.

Friends of mine feed their cat prozac in response to him peeing everywhere; it seems to work.

Not too sure. I just moved to the area 2 years ago so aside from basic rivalry knowledge I can only speak for UAB, where I graduated from. Excellent professors and a strong sense of community among the C.S. undergrads. Also home to a very active chapter of the ACM that holds upper-grad presentations for lower-grad students and regular one-on-one study sessions between the two.

We have 'Code for Birmingham' non-profit organization that works to build software for the city, a strong computer science department at the local major University (UAB), and a few tech incubators. We're lacking in the 'meetup.com' department of the tech scene, but the point is we're primed for an influx of entrepreneurs and startups.

I think Birmingham fits well in that list. We have a very low cost of living and our downtown is undergoing a huge revival these past few years. Great access to nature too.

Aside from that mobile already has a very popular MOBA, Vain Glory.

No, but there's a cow-themed easter egg. :)

Pindigo - Social score-tracking for pinball players.

We're building an app to provide the first non-forum social network for pinball players.

- Score logging w/ image uploads

- Machine look-up w/ links to third-party resources

- Likes, comments, and following

- Score timelines, analytics, and leaderboards.

- Oauth integration of the world's leading pinball forum, Pinside

- Plenty of stuff in the works!

After 5 months of development, we're starting our v2.0.0 closed beta next week! http://www.pindigoapp.com

Looks to be a typo on your landing page; "wondering" should be "wandering".

Well, at least medium.com loads. (site is down this moment)

I'd rather have ads I can block than "sponsored content" which may or may not even be labelled as such.