Good point. This is why a healthy and educated populace is bad for the economy.

Merica!

Very nice! However, the demo and site seems a tad slow. Probably too much HN traffic :)

"I'm in a very remote place, so options are limited."

This is the challenge. If you had other options then you can genuinely use them as a negotiating tactic. E.g. "I'd love to stay here. The team and culture is great. But I am also curious about company X and they're offering me 20% more..."

Can you explore working remotely for someone else, perhaps as a lead engineer?

I agree. The author brings this to light as well and warns about the implications of changing what is considered "truthy" in x.

"Their speculative approach was essentially unheard-of locally, but the two believed that if they built the office space, tenants would come."

That's awesome; "built it and they will come" - an approach I have recently overcome the fear of, due to them never coming on a couple projects I learned from.

I appreciate how they disliked borrowing in the early stages, too.

"Build it and they will come" works a lot better with land, since land is pretty finite and people tend to want to do something with it. Also see the adage, "location location location".

Online mindshare, on the other hand, is basically infinite and unless there's a path to discovery, there's not really any reason for people to show up.

An amazing man and a testament to the power of curiosity.

Very cool. A website to find the missing ingredient. I can see using this for two of the three irons I have in the fire. The third one I was fortunate to find my complementary opposites at a Christmas party.

Great idea and thanks

Haha! Thanks, man.

We can't wait to get everyone on board, and good luck at this year's Christmas party!

Python/Django and Ruby/Rails are both clean frameworks and have fantastic communities. When I did the "Hello world" on both I was drawn to Python/Django. When it comes to moving away from the framework I tend to like Python more than Ruby. But it's just personal preference.

In addition, I feel like python tends to have a more consistent, but somewhat more verbose API in libraries and for frameworks such as web development frameworks. A strength and a problem that ruby has over python is that the syntax and language are more flexible, which both makes it harder to debug but also faster to develop and prototype in as compared to python.

That is awesome. I like; "That problem has been solved so I'd Google it". Your answer is faster.

I'd give the candidate some minutes to Google the problem, but then I'd want a solution and a good explanation. (Explaining other people's code is hard, too.)

-In elementary school when you were learning to do algebra did you say...

Chill, he said 'so'. i think he was just saying he looked up the answer but that persons answer was faster

Thanks autokad. base698 has the right interpretation: My response was the smarmy answer I have given in interview situations where I just felt rebellious against the energy of interviewer combined with the test questions. I actually agree with base698. An understanding of the basics is required. And the companies I've coded for - for long periods of time, and loved working at - figured out I knew the basics based on our conversations alone. I hire people without testing. It has not backfired yet. I have also tested others in the past, had people pass the test, only come on board to be dangerous to production environments.

I always interview the company interviewing me. The closer I've mimicked Peter Gibbons from Office Space the quicker the job offer arrived, provided I passed their tech tests.