shoeless

I received my CS degree in 1984. I started my first consulting business 12 years later at 35, and founded a startup last year with a co-founder.

You will experience ageism, so plan on cutting your own path in either consulting, freelance development, or founding your own company. Build your network - that is where you will expand your opportunities.

Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't have a productive software development career at any age.

That's an awfully big assumption. Was the fact that the police beat this guy and cracked his spine reported in the Baltimore Sun yesterday?

There has been no conclusion that that is the case. Those that are rioting are guilty of exactly what they accuse the police of. I believe the mayor called them "thugs".

The manufacturers of speed cameras take a percentage, and it is a windfall for the municipality.

I live in an area where stationary speed cameras are around every corner (Montgomery Co, Maryland). I've lived here long enough to know that there's no way the county would spend money on the equipment and man power to maintain and operate that network, just to break even for the sake of safety.

Why not Detroit? The labor force is there, the costs (real estate, labor, taxes) must be considerably in favor of something of this scale, and it's in line with the automotive industry. In that Michigan is hurting from the down slide of traditional auto manufacturers, I would think it would endear Tesla to the industry, or at least the workers.

How is protesting in a residential neighborhood allowed? Did this group have a permit? Is the SF Bay area different in this regard - no permit allowed?

Exactly. You could extrapolate this into any "The [whatever] is dead" statement that we see so often. And it's not getting any easier - e.g. are we capturing and processing less data these days? Is the data we store less valuable?

> You can't get a DBA from a college, from a technical school, or from any other form of formal education. Most DBAs these days are grown internally from developers or system administrators who decide to (or are forced to) specialize while on the job.

I can't say how much truth is in this statement. This stuff if learned organically by doing it on real world projects. It's scary at times to think that you just can't teach this stuff.

This is great work. Anyone have any references to animating an entire SVG object by location and size at the same time? For example, slide the SVG diagonally while increasing it's size. I'm particularly interested in doing this with D3 objects.