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I love how whitespace has turned into an "issue" and how a problem has also turned into an "issue"

If you want to learn about NK read "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demick. Interviews with refugees.

Neither good SO answers nor docs emerge out of thin air. If you find the right way to do something, document it, write it down, submit a PR.

Credit Louis CK at least.

I might add the pry gem to that list. It has a pretty robust community around it and it can help when debugging hairy code.

Moxie Marlinespike of WhisperNet has explicitly said that he leaves his devices at home when traveling because of this.

It doesn't do the same investigative reporting either.

I remember reading his quite useful blog post on learning rails quickly which included what was involved in creating a website and how to attain a simple understanding of web-specific database design, REST and front-end design.

It was pretty good. Two things sort of dismay me though when I see something like this:

1. There are lots of free resources available online, like the above mentioned blogpost. We need to make a better case for open and free learning.

2. All start-ups are forms and the display of the information entered into those forms according to nearly all of the start-ups I run into in NYC.

I can rich and you can too!

Can we stop posting articles from businessweek? Please?

Derek Bailey is a boss. His lost techies blog is great even if you aren't using marionette.

You should reword this.

Few of these schools are free. Most supplement a course fee with a placement fee they receive by acting as your recruiter.

None, just meet people. You'll get better jobs and introductions through clients who like your work.

I also cringe whenever I see 'Now building things' in a person's profile. What were you doing before?

no, use this. https://github.com/mattspitz/completeme

One of the main problems I have with it is that in New York, I know of people who are doing a taking account AirBnb rates when calculating a break even for their sublets/extra rooms. This will push rents up in the city and ultimately not help a lot of the actual residents.

This pricing model also works for consulting as well. Listen to Obie Fernandez talk about 321-Launch and you'll understand that value of bundling when it comes to consulting services.

Simply put, price yourself high. People will attach value to your work because of this.

Also, from a consulting standpoint:

This accomplishes a few things. It affords you time to spend on non-billable hours such as taxes and filling your pipeline. Finally, adding a 'special sauce' packages allows you to eventually de-commoditize yourself and allow you to start transitioning those jobs that are interchangeable to others under you without your client objecting too strenuously.

Until you tasted it...

I'm really happy to see agencies selling better advertising than standalone CRUD apps or native apps. Hope ya'll like it too.

I'm very curious to know how many consumer focused sites/companies/apps have had 1 billion+ buyouts.

Remember that a good portion of college debt is held by people who thought they wanted to go to college, went in, accrued debt and then decided to do something different. Its good to have people in power say, 'do what is right for you.'

For the people who actually sign up for this and are learning rails -- ie have done the M. Hartl tutorial but might not have seen many projects live -- take a look a Rails Best Practices.

Its definitely doable within a weekend.

I wonder to what degree these people are gaming the system to get on the front page in the first place...