I love how whitespace has turned into an "issue" and how a problem has also turned into an "issue"

Maybe encouraged by git's behavior of coloring "incorrect" whitespace.

If you want to learn about NK read "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demick. Interviews with refugees.

This post - The Story of Oh - is another great one to read: http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/07/16/the-story-of-...

Oh Kil-nam is a South Korean man who received his PhD in Germany, decided to defect there with his wife and two children in 1986.

Read the story, is all I can say.

I'm almost finished with this book. GREAT read, I recommend it to anyone that wants to learn about North Korea.

Also, Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden.

Neither good SO answers nor docs emerge out of thin air. If you find the right way to do something, document it, write it down, submit a PR.

Credit Louis CK at least.

I might add the pry gem to that list. It has a pretty robust community around it and it can help when debugging hairy code.

Moxie Marlinespike of WhisperNet has explicitly said that he leaves his devices at home when traveling because of this.

It doesn't do the same investigative reporting either.

I remember reading his quite useful blog post on learning rails quickly which included what was involved in creating a website and how to attain a simple understanding of web-specific database design, REST and front-end design.

It was pretty good. Two things sort of dismay me though when I see something like this:

1. There are lots of free resources available online, like the above mentioned blogpost. We need to make a better case for open and free learning.

2. All start-ups are forms and the display of the information entered into those forms according to nearly all of the start-ups I run into in NYC.

Good points willbill, my responses:

1. Learning has always been free! (Okay, almost always.) You can walk into any library and pick up a book on any subject. But most people don't do it because there are too many resources out there and they're not synthesized in a way that is catered towards a particular audience. People still pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to universities to learn topics that they could theoretically learn on their own. Why? Because text is really energy-intensive to consume. I don't feel like having a ton of low quality resources online is not the solution. That being said, I'm all about reducing the cost of learning and making it more accessible, which is why I hope that this class can provide a similar quality of education as $10-$18k intensive (like Hack Reactor or General Assembly) for people who can't afford that.

2. 95% of products are forms and the display of that information - that's correct. That's why I don't think it's so hard for beginners to learn, and that's what makes Ruby on Rails particularly powerful. It's just tools for building forms, pulling data out of databases, and displaying that data in a pretty way.

They go to college because that's what society told them to do. They pay for that stupid diploma. I hope things change in the future? I still believe all Learning should be free. If your Learning is really worth $49.99; don't you think word of mouth would bring in the masses?

I can rich and you can too!

Can we stop posting articles from businessweek? Please?

I don't know, if you read between the lines it's got useful info, e.g. Yahoo has been historically very hostile to mobile, and they can't recruit mobile talent without "[buying] talent, spending close to $200 million to acquire at least 18 startups, in addition to blogging network Tumblr for $1.1 billion. In each instance, Yahoo has locked up engineers with two- to four-year contracts...."

Yeah, that sounds like a recipe for success....

That depends if they're set to task or given enough to room to build something cool.

Why?

I thought this particular article was pretty darn good.

yes, let's get more medium.com articles.