Interesting about Germany and the increase in human trafficking. When they chose to legalize, I thought may be this is a good thing.

So you disagree by insulting and bullying. "What an idiotic comment", was that line necessary.

Who are these employees? I don't know any developers who get paid overtime. Even at shitty companies with shitty pay I have worked at least 55 hrs/week and during launches over 70 hrs/week.

Love this post. Brings up the question of are we solving problems are merely difficult puzzles? "Modern programmer culture fetishizes complexity as a status marker or tribal initiation ritual"

I wonder if some of this is the bored engineer phenomenon? I find that when I'm writing actually difficult code, it almost always comes out clean, simple and easy to read.

It's when I'm churning out ridiculous amounts of front-end kluge that I start over-engineering or introducing complexity and indirection where it's totally unnecessary.

This seems like a particularly cogent hypothesis for the web, where a majority of the programming is not very intellectually stimulating* but is simultaneously time-consuming and mentally taxing.

* IMO and in my experience, mileage may vary. And this isn't to say you don't need to be intelligent. But requiring mental energy != intellectually stimulating.

Some problems fit more cleanly into code than others. These get more attention when it's clear that a cleaner solution is yet unimplemented.

I have been using it for 6 months, love it.

As someone who has written apps in Lua using Corona SDK. This is exciting. Syntax looks a lot like Lua/Ruby and we are not stuck using the watered down version of Lua that Corona provides.

I agree with your wife, also avoid tech conf and women tech meetups because I am afraid. Most of us are trying to be do our job well, improve how we code etc, build something useful perhaps BUT this back and forth makes it very difficult.

Thumbs up for eloquent ruby, fantastic book