danjaouen

Living outside of the Bay Area has consequences as well. For example, I'm an out-of-work developer currently living outside of SF, and I can therefore only really apply to positions that allow for remote work (which are much rarer than HN would have you believe).

To me, the most important distinction between a "junior" and a "senior" developer is that a senior developer isn't afraid to work with and maintain legacy code.

When I first started out, I was obsessed with only using the latest and greatest technologies, but I've come to realize over the course of my career that this is simply infeasible for many organizations.

I have to disagree with the last part of your post. Some languages are actually better in quantifiable ways; for example, shorter development time, better performance, etc.

I've experimented with Chicago Boss a bit; it's an excellent framework, but I feel it still has a ways to go before it can compete with Rails.

I would pay a lot for a Rails-like framework written in Erlang. Erlang really hits a sweet spot between performance and developer-friendliness.

If we have to move Silicon Valley somewhere, my vote would go to Rochester, NY: http://rocwiki.org/

While I don't doubt the veracity of this article, it is wildly presumptuous to characterize an entire nation based on one or two isolated, anecdotal incidents.

How would we feel if the rest of the world characterized Americans by the antics of single individuals, like Lindsay Lohan or Miley Cyrus?

Technically, you can open up Python classes:

    class Test(object):
        pass

    t = Test()
    def test(self):
        print('ehlo')
    Test.test = test
    t.test()

This is rarely done in practice, however (at least, as far as I can tell)

While this is an awesome effort, I don't see myself using this without list comprehensions/generators/itertools/etc.

Reading this article has significantly raised my blood pressure.

Seems like this would result in many users using the same password for particular services.

Yeah, I know. As a Python guy with a minor case of OCD, I sometimes feel compelled to critique code, even when I know the code was written in jest.

Sorry for being a pedant :)

This is bad Python:

- "isgoodtime" is a magic variable that changes depending on when it is imported. It should therefore be either a function or method on an object.

- "if isgoodtime == True" should be "if isgoodtime:" (although this would probably change to "if isgoodtime():"

- words in functions should be separated by underscores, e.g., is_good_time, to_great_content

Why don't they just start charging for it? Personally, I'd much rather run software that costs money but is high quality than software that is free but riddled with adware.