> what is the current unfair advantage held by anyone competent I hate to say it given how much time we waste here, but it's probably reading Hacker News. Peop

> what is the current unfair advantage held by anyone competent I hate to say it given how much time we waste here, but it's probably reading Hacker News. People here know about node.js, about client-side MVC frameworks, about MongoDB/NoSQL, and the like. Some of those things we even think of as old hat, from way back in 2010 or 2011. Some of them we think of as trendy and without staying power. But we actually did take the time to look at these technologies, evaluate them, and reject them -- or sometimes, accept them. Now think about the guys who still think Java is the standard, who might just now be getting around to learning Ruby...all when Ruby is itself fast becoming Blub and the new hotness is actually node + coffeescript (or a more FP language like Haskell/Clojure/Scala). That's exactly the equivalent of the guys who ran Windows because they just didn't know any better. For better or for worse, competent hackers read Hacker News.