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Smedly Butler!

Inspire!

I transitioned into a tech lead a year ago and at first it was kind of annoyed by all the requests from the team regarding technical assistance.

I realized there were two paths I could take. 1. Continue to be annoyed and try to get as much coding in as I can. 2. Sit down with each individual, help them, give examples of how things should work etc.

Luckily I chose the latter option and I have a great relationship with all the team, I have strong coders that are more self-sufficient, and I enjoy more time coding now.

I think the lesson I learned is that you get out of your team much more than you put in, strive to inspire your devs.

"And Google certainly is comfortable, except for open floor plans" - Great line...

Good luck BradFitz!

Adheres to Tethics.

And it's only $975!

Wait, MySpace is dead?!?

What about Canadian? ;)

Wow, I originally clicked on the article thinking it was tongue-in-cheek, but it's fantastic! Glad to see that someone is taking time to help others (like me)

What about ease of setup? I'd take the NoSql setup any day. If in need of a super light, super quick db that is for a "non-enterprise" application, it's tough to beat NoSql...

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Reminds me of Javascript, but with better performance and without some of the Javascript oddities.

Why not just use Ruby, all of this is already built in?

I never liked this kind of code practice, makes it very difficult to read!

I know, that the worst part! I like Python, in fact the indentation convention makes it really nice to read, but why did they uglify it with the double underscores?

It's not fair to think that everyone has an internet connection though, should be posed as an alternate solution, then I think it makes a lot of sense.