toddan

ASP.Net mvc 4, in my opinion its the best platform at the moment. Its as easy to use as ruby on rails but the performance is much much better. C# is a great language that really hits the sweet spot in language features.

The downside is of course being tied to Microsoft but its not that big of a problem.

I think it matters, try developing ruby on rails on windows and you will have bad time. For me only php and java are the two platforms that i have been able to develop with, no matter what os i am currently using.

because the nordic countries has showed being capable of excelebt inovation and entreprenourahip

I Don't really have a schedule and i find it really hard to stick to a routine due to problems with getting to bed and waking up the same time every day.

But normally this is what i do.

* wake up between 10:00 and 12:00 take a shower and make coffee.

* Code on a start-up me and my brother are in the making of.

* 3 times a week i hold boxing classes at my dads gym.

* After work i watch a movie or read on hacker news.

Sometime i wish i could get on with a routine and stick with it, it would benefit me in many ways. But my discipline on going to bed and waking up on proper times is none and i have never been able to do that in my whole life, so i don't see it happening in some time.

I have also tried to get back into boxing and marital arts, i used to be really into that and train 5 times a week. But my interest in training and martial arts have almost disappeared as i have been doing it since i was 9 and i have no idea how to reignite the flame i used to have.

Why is it so hard for browsers to implement a common set of byte-code. Then we all get what we want and it would make it much simpler to port your favorite language to the browser.

This compile to javascript trend seems so brittle and frail.

My story is a bit similar to yours. I got diagnosed with ADD when i was 16 and was put on concerta during my high-school years.

I am interested on how you manage to get stuff done when smoking weed. I have tried to make weed a tool to manage my self, but its not just working for me. I get really confused in my head and do not manage to produce quality work when stoned. It also sometimes makes me super paranoid.

I guess i had my facts wrong then.

He was adopted from Egypt that is as arab you can get.

No! Absolutely not!

Why? Because i am an average mediocre programmer, i work 9-5 read on hacker news, have 3 small and crappy side projects and i suck monkey balls on design and css/html. Most of my skills are about fetching and massaging data from a database.

If everybody knew how to code my skills would not be a novelty anymore and my salary would not as high as it is now, also in my country being a programmer is seen as an advanced job among common people i would loose the little social status i currently have.

My paranoid mind already thinks that there are way too many smart people graduating with cs degrees and i sometimes wish that i was a programmer in the early 90s when people who wanted to learn to code were few in numbers and people with economics degrees where not able to learn rails in 3months.

I also strongly believe that in a nearby future programmers within my skill set and capacity will be replaced or just function as simple configuration admins with lower salary, as engineers makes implementing software easier by every year.

I think this is a natural path of software development. It is getting easier and easier every year to make software on the foundation built by smart engineers.

There still will be engineers that will do amazing things, but the problems the engineers will face will be harder and the problems programmers will face will be easier.

Just compare creating a blog with php year 2000 and creating a blog with rails 2014.

I believe that in a near future making most of the apps used by businesses will only be a matter of setting configurations. I know this is what people said in the 80s and we did not get there by 2000, but that dose not mean we will not be there in the future.

And what wrong with that? The site is scaling extremely good and for a long time the whole application was running on only two servers.

I am curious on what kind of software they are running with nginx on freeBSD or is all the video content just raw video files that their client software directs to?

why not byte code then we all get what we want.

Yes you could do that but then you would face a bunch of hard problems. Like support, deployment or where to find all these python/qt programmers.

Why junior people?

Imagine making a portable device that use watson to analyze your blood and health, you could give your self an medical exam every week.

everybody is learning howto code but when will people learn how to solve hard problems. I would rather see people learning complex math and physics before learning how to code. creating various crud applications is not really that hard.

Maybe boys have a higher tendency to join a gang or choose a life of crime than girls?

Wow u so kool can i be you friend?

i am a h4ker 2 u kno

I hate this rise of the "nerd" all it dose is forcing you to be a certain stereotype in order to be seen as someone to hire by startups.

It dose not matter if you are self thought or not. The only thing that matter is how smart you are. I have met people with degrees that for some reason don't know shit about the fundamentals of CS and then there is smart people that just gets it.

<irony> because web developers are not real programmers/developers </irony>

No but most of the time, clients compare it to the css theme a 15year old did for their wordpress install.

I guess that if you are a self taught rails or django developer you will miss these kinds of things.

But it also depends on how far you want to learn. I have a friend of mine that started with django and for a long time, only knew how to push data back and forth a database. But after a while he slowly got in to these kinds of things(Big Os and mathy things) and now he is better than me at algorithms and optimizations(not that I am any good at that).