Someone made this point in a direct response to the post, and was quickly dismissed as a troll (as well as being treated to a particularly snarky response from

Someone made this point in a direct response to the post, and was quickly dismissed as a troll (as well as being treated to a particularly snarky response from DHH). While I certainly have to think that 37signals knows what they are doing, the need for a 24/7 programmer does sound a little strange. Perhaps it's just a question of semantics, as the post describes dev/ops duties more than anything else.