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Yet spain still lags behind most other countries in terms of internet connection speeds.

Linux was built in an era of fierce resistance from the corporate world, so what is there to save today when everything runs or touches OSS in one way or another and most decent developers will make an OSS contribution, to claim on their CVs?

As much of a fan of Open Source as I am, I've come to realise the OSS has killed indie development. Many OSS projects are built for free to show as proof of skills when applying for jobs, with the outliers being cash cows for major cloud service providers.

In the “old world” cities like London, Paris, Berlin and others are facing the eact same problems, with or without those overcrowded, overpriced buses you mentioned.

Another programming language?

My thoughts exactly. And freelancing can get you there - provided it pays more, and it can teach you how to be less reliant on a monthly paycheck.

Isnt this what the us is about? Financial freedom. Contracting or freelancing are the first steps in that direction.

Yet another guardian “the rich are bad” type of article.

Imagine if british banks would be prosecuted for all the crime they help finance.

So in the name of higher valuations we should accept criminal money? Interesting thought.

Nice, a reskinned Ubuntu distro.

Try and find or do remote work.

And how exactly are these organisations to make money, if not through ads?

That's interesting, as the USD is cheaper than a EUR and generally speaking life is more expensive in Europe than in the US. Would be curious if there are stats on how much a remote worker gets in USD in Portugal.

How do you lose a class in a programming language?!

Funny how suddendly commercial software makes sense

Freeware at its finest

Thats pretty much a bad practice well documented accross various php tutorials and books. But many php developers have no understanding of programming so they stash everything in that _SESSION superglobal or do other scary things.

With new relic you issue a single command to install an agent, or an extension, and configure your license key. Takes a few minutes and you don't need to spend expensive devops time configuring yet another "free" tool.

"It's free". It costs sysadmins time to configure and maintain. Probably NewRelic costs less, depending on where the salary is paid.

How is this better than newrelic?

As a 3rd world country, Armenia seems to have a pretty quick travel time

We needed to know more reasons on why not to open a business. Tell us more about how hard it is. !(It helps)

Cool app!

Address issues as they are raised. Don't wait too long to get rid of debt, and most certainly don't rely on fixed time cycles of fixing things. A team has good sense of the issues they deal with, and you can capture their view in retrospective meetings. Depending on how bad the debt is, you should allocate time to improve. Velocity will only get worse as debt grows, so there is a clear business case for such stories: the more debt, the slower the velocity and the lower the quality. Spend time now, to speed things up. But just don't do it from a theoretical perspective. Address real issues, set real goals and measure them.

"And you know this rewrite, like others in the past, will be a significant sink of time, and likely a catastrophe."

To avoid this establish clear goals for the rewrite phase and measure results. Don't just rewrite for the sake of rewriting. Have a session where you identify issues and how to tackle them.

From a CTO-Like perspective, getting rid of technical debt should happen frequently, while keeping business goals in mind.

Yeah because the us is preferred, huh?