Should I have all the money in the world I would most likely spend a good part of the year in Ibiza. I've been to a lot of places in the Mediterranean (and other shores) and Ibiza is one of the most beautiful places in…
Did he not? After suffering through the Hobbit movies, I would completely disagree. Adding salt to the injury, these movies destroyed the story in the book that Tolkien apparently wrote specially for his children. Talk…
Indeed! That's one of the things I like to review in those "Who's hiring" posts. That's why I'm happy to continue being a Ruby developer!
The Ruby dev market in Europe is hotter than ever. Of course, that's in relative terms. It's nowhere near the size of the Java, JS or even Python market size, but demand is strongest than ever and salaries show that, too
It's clear that legacy has a pretty strong influence, here, with Wordpress and other standard tools inflating PHP's numbers and Shopify doing the same for Ruby. But, I'm pretty sure there's plenty of new projects being…
In my case, I was referring to developer productivity. In my experience, this is, by far, the most important limiting factor in any software project
I think this shows how much HN is a bubble in itself. Most discussions here happen around new/exciting/cool/weird technology. And don't get me wrong, I love those discussions! That's why I come here! But reality outside…
Ruby, the language, is almost as flexible and dynamic as Smalltalk. It's just that it didn't come with an integrated graphical environment like Smalltalk. For a glimpse of "what is possible", take a look at TkInspect…
Sadly true, indeed. It's a shame we're losing so much useful functionality there. Security is a worthy goal but getting rid of useful features just because Google wants to handhold Android users so much seems to me like…
I own the 3GB Manjaro edition of the PinePhone (same hardware as this one, AFAIK) and, while in theory you can do everything that you describe with it, it is hardly something you could use as your only smartphone for…
Personal experience: Around 2005 I was looking for a platform for a new web app, after some years out of development but having worked extensively with NeXTstep and EOF in the 90s. After watching DHH's video and reading…
In my experience (I'm 51 myself), the older the guy, the most likely he's aware he doesn't know everything
Of course, there's plenty of people in their 40s experiencing the struggles you describe. But, as a matter of fact, I've met as many of them in the 20s and 30s range with the same problems (maybe not so tired, but…
Most of the commenters focus on a stronger financial position and/or industry knowledge as reasons to be a successful entrepreneur beyond the barrier of 40s. But the man himself provides reasons which I find much more…
Should I have all the money in the world I would most likely spend a good part of the year in Ibiza. I've been to a lot of places in the Mediterranean (and other shores) and Ibiza is one of the most beautiful places in…
Did he not? After suffering through the Hobbit movies, I would completely disagree. Adding salt to the injury, these movies destroyed the story in the book that Tolkien apparently wrote specially for his children. Talk…
Indeed! That's one of the things I like to review in those "Who's hiring" posts. That's why I'm happy to continue being a Ruby developer!
The Ruby dev market in Europe is hotter than ever. Of course, that's in relative terms. It's nowhere near the size of the Java, JS or even Python market size, but demand is strongest than ever and salaries show that, too
It's clear that legacy has a pretty strong influence, here, with Wordpress and other standard tools inflating PHP's numbers and Shopify doing the same for Ruby. But, I'm pretty sure there's plenty of new projects being…
In my case, I was referring to developer productivity. In my experience, this is, by far, the most important limiting factor in any software project
I think this shows how much HN is a bubble in itself. Most discussions here happen around new/exciting/cool/weird technology. And don't get me wrong, I love those discussions! That's why I come here! But reality outside…
Ruby, the language, is almost as flexible and dynamic as Smalltalk. It's just that it didn't come with an integrated graphical environment like Smalltalk. For a glimpse of "what is possible", take a look at TkInspect…
Sadly true, indeed. It's a shame we're losing so much useful functionality there. Security is a worthy goal but getting rid of useful features just because Google wants to handhold Android users so much seems to me like…
I own the 3GB Manjaro edition of the PinePhone (same hardware as this one, AFAIK) and, while in theory you can do everything that you describe with it, it is hardly something you could use as your only smartphone for…
Personal experience: Around 2005 I was looking for a platform for a new web app, after some years out of development but having worked extensively with NeXTstep and EOF in the 90s. After watching DHH's video and reading…
In my experience (I'm 51 myself), the older the guy, the most likely he's aware he doesn't know everything
Of course, there's plenty of people in their 40s experiencing the struggles you describe. But, as a matter of fact, I've met as many of them in the 20s and 30s range with the same problems (maybe not so tired, but…
Most of the commenters focus on a stronger financial position and/or industry knowledge as reasons to be a successful entrepreneur beyond the barrier of 40s. But the man himself provides reasons which I find much more…