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Great idea. This would be a good opportunity to experience and experiment in other technologies that don't get much spotlight. Will definitely try to get there this year!

Wow... Kudos on a great job!

Great job! All you need now is a better UI for mobiles and I'm sold :)

What web technology did you choose for this?

Cute! You should add the sound of "Happiness & Zen coding" (someone coding Ruby) and the sound of "Despair" (someone coding PHP), etc. :)

I think this proves quite the opposite. As a developer, you can decide if you want to change your users' default search engine (which will probably annoy them a lot), or do anything you want. It's a platform.

Developers always faced the annoying decision of choosing a certain browser and losing a huge chunk of other browser-users, or maintaining several branches of code that is supposed to do the same thing. Well done & Congrats!

I would recommend the ruby test plugin which is really great: https://github.com/maltize/sublime-text-2-ruby-tests

and Rails Nav: https://github.com/noklesta/SublimeRailsNav which gives you a pretty neat way navigating your app. Much like the common vi plugins.

The music also made a big difference. Listening to Infected Mushroom while high on Modafinil and coding up a storm made me feel like I was some kind of insane coding machine that could complete pretty much any coding task in record time.

Hilarious :)

On a more serious note - this sounds a lot like taking Ritalin. I was just as productive if I was well rested, ...and working on something I cared about. - this isn't always an option. Sure, heavy use of anything isn't good. Lest we forget it's a drug after all, even regular use might be too much for some.

I really liked the article and the approach on things.

Thanks

Brilliant! I remember my Computer Architecture course's Professor telling us about this article :)

Well said. I would add that for perl instead of using homebrew one can use 'perlbrew': http://perlbrew.pl/ which is a lot like RVM.

CGI isn't fun. I understand legacy code that runs on it, I don't think developing new web apps with it is the right thing to do, there are plenty of amazing frameworks which make perl web programming fast, powerful and fun again:

You have Catalyst (full on MVC framework, you can compare it to Rails), Dancer* (micro-web inspired by Ruby's Sinatra) and Mojolicious to name a few.

*Hint: Start here - http://perldancer.org/

Looks awesome, always wondered if I could deploy perldancer web apps on Heroku!

You're right, but it means the project will (probably) become less stable. One less full time individual probably means less testing and might require you to use older packages or build them yourself.

It's always sad to see a project failing. There are other alternatives, both to a KDE linux distro (i.e: openSUSE) and gnome/ubuntu (mint being my favorite).

It's a business decision I understand, they want to shift focus completely to ubuntu, especially since they are losing a huge user-base over their last gnome3 releases.

This is a brilliant article. True for the most parts.

However, I think that actual coding that relates to the job in discussion is important. This doesn't contradicts the idea in the article though.

Hilarious. I'm amazed by the fact that they didn't know what they were doing, their marketing dep. and "social media director" should have expected that.

+1 to that.

Clearly this whole script kiddies war is doing more harm than good to either sides. It's not about skills or anything anymore and it doesn't matter if these credentials or the facebook credentials (posted earlier: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/israeli-hacker-posts-8216...) are even real.

I view harming innocent by-standers/civilians as a type of terrorism. Much like dropping a bomb in a populated area.

Either way, it creates panic. People would want to see if they're there. It's all about proper marketing really.

Pretty delusional if you ask me. Sadly, this whole script kiddies war is doing more harm than good to each side.

This reminds me a lot of one company I worked for. While I can understand cutting costs when the economy is bad, his last question hits the spot: "But what happens when the economy improves?"

It reminds me of an old article I read back when oink.cd was shut down, criticizing the music industry: http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of...

I don't like labeling the whole SOPA case as "Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley", but in a way Hollywood is like the major record labels. However, I'm not sure it's a dying industry.

This is exactly where entrepreneurs and innovative startups can come in and help those old industries adapt to a not-so-new reality through advertisements, accessibility, convenience, etc.

Interesting. I was actually expecting bigger percentages.

Love it.