stevear

This is one of those ideas that instantly makes sense.

I clearly see the value proposition right on the first page. If I could invest in this company I would. I am green with jealousy.

I am really glad someone else has noticed this and feels the same way.

This quote from that thread pissed me off all morning: "If you told the common man any time in history other than the baby boomer generation, that the way to get rich was 'hard work' and 'Budgeting' they would die of laughter."

Every day I feel more and more alienated by the victim mentality on Reddit. It seems to be the only tangible by-product of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

I don't even know why I visit Reddit anymore.

I forgot to ask another really important question: What dev enviroment?

Obviously I'm using Visual Studio 2010.

This would be a symptom of developers also being the sysadmins.

On another note, Microsoft typically has good documentation but I feel that they need a very simple 5 page 'Owners Guide' for some products that goes over the most important topics in a simple manner. We can't assume that only experts will use said products so at least provide a dead simple 'This is how to not screw yourself' guide.

The custom errors issue the article talks about is an insanely basic configuration error that is NOT the default. Someone started tinkering with a setting without realizing it's full extent.

I imagine the best strategy is to be yourself, answer the questions truthfully and have a good idea and not dedicate a bunch of effort to hacking the application.

It's like reading a bunch of books on how to get a first date. The actual getting the date is not the important part...it's the overall being a person that is worth dating that is important. If you are worth dating then getting a date isn't hard.

I am curious what PG has to say about this.

Is the preference for late night because 1) there are less distractions at night or 2) hackers are genetically prone to being night owls?

Personally when left to my own ways will migrate my schedule naturally to be nocturnal. Wake up at 2PM and go to bed at 6AM. I feel happier and am way more productive.

Has this been to the front-page yet? I have noticed this a lot...especially about frameworks and platforms.

Is there a good place to match non-technical and technical founders?

This is an honest question: Having been in IT and software development for over a decade, I have never encountered a problem that required me to look at the source code. As such, I've never really understood the open source movement. I can't imagine a scenario where the software I am using, the same software used by hundreds of thousands of others, would be broken to the point where I had to go into the source and fix it. I can't even imagine going into the source to figure out how it works-- usually the documentation and online help is sufficient.

What is the typical scenario where one really benefits in open over closed source? How often does it occur? I am curious.

Also worthy to note that Microsoft's BizSpark program provides free production access to Microsoft tools and products-- not Express editions but versions like Visual Studio Ultimate, SQL Server Enterprise, Windows Server Enterprise, etc. You also get a couple thousand free hours on Azure if you want to go that route. For training you also get three months of Pluralsight which brings you up to speed on the relevant tools and platforms.

I feel it's a really good time to be a Microsoft developer. The products are really solid, the skills are in demand and the barrier to entry is pretty much gone.

I realize after writing the above I come off as a big time evangelist, but this is only because I have had such a good experience for the last decade building on their platforms. Never regretted going all in other than sometime feeling like a black sheep on this site. Good to know there are a lot of other .Net folk on this site. ;)

So is a book.

I strongly agree with some of the interactions in this article.

Advice to Junior Programmers: Don't be 'that guy'. Don't be that guy that derails meeting and projects by trying to switch frameworks or languages or whatever. Writing code in your free time is different than writing code for a business on a team. Listen to your co-workers and go with the flow until you have a lot of experience under your belt.

Managers and Sr. Devs have a very keen awareness of when they run into 'that guy'. No one likes them and they are toxic to projects. Managers and Sr. Devs want to be completing projects and not defending why they are using XYZ technology.

'That guy' has a good technical ability but no business sense and usually ends up being let go. This leads to 'that guy' thinking they have been let go because no one can see their talent and adopting a victim mentality.

Be a facilitator, not an irritator.

After getting chastised not that long ago for not having the best work conditions for their human pickers... not enough breaks, not enough pay, unsatisfactory climate conditions...Amazon moves to robots. Problem solved.

If they halved their subscription fee I would sign up.