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And for all of that, the things that are most financially lucrative these days don't require anything other than the ability to read the fucking manual an

And for all of that, the things that are most financially lucrative these days don't require anything other than the ability to read the fucking manual and bolt together your favorite ruby gems or node packages and then apply a pretty design to it. This is simply untrue... financially lucrative things almost always have to be highly scalable, very robust, and implement functionality that is not "in the manual". Making a trivial webapp is easy; making one that implements useful functionality and scales to millions of users is not so easy.

angersock 13y ago
Scaling is a problem that happens once you get users, and by that point you can pay real engineers to solve your scaling problems. Scaling is a phantom bugaboo used by engineers to help massage their egos that some punk-nosed kid is kicking their ass at capitalism using Ruby or PHP or Node or Perl with a shitty, inferior product...that happens to have more users and mindshare and potential then that engineer's pet project, oh-so-carefully engineered and constructed. If you set out to build Twitter or Faceobook or Snapchat or whatever at scale, from the start, you're doomed. But, cranking out a stupid little Rails app with enough hook and flair to get your initial userbase and attract investors is pretty much just bolting together gems and bootstrap. Worse is better, the crowds have spoken.