As odd as it sounds, I actually enjoy being able to and sometimes having to dip into other people's code. For a bunch of jars that I had to use in Java (or C++

As odd as it sounds, I actually enjoy being able to and sometimes having to dip into other people's code. For a bunch of jars that I had to use in Java (or C++ or VB even), there would be some feature missing and I was plum out of luck and had to write something completely around what they were doing to make special cases. Now, with Ruby(and Rails), 99% of the time, I just grab the latest off Github and roll with it. I need to get better at forking in my changes so that others can share, but that is a self esteem problem of a different kind. Some of the time, I have seen solutions that I would never have though of implemented more gracefully than the brute steel glove I was going for. As for sachin, to me it looks like now that he has hit success, he is no longer hungry, and just biting the hand that feeds him out of aimlessness... or would this be excentricism? Looks like he updated to say how Rails allowed him to deploy as fast as they did. But still, the post sounds a lot like a duke crossing a river by running atop the heads of his subjects and then complaining when his coat tail and shoes got wet when he gets to the other side.