Here's the problem I have with this: 1. You have an organization (can't tell if for profit or non-for-profit) that explicitly states that it helps people "beco

Here's the problem I have with this: 1. You have an organization (can't tell if for profit or non-for-profit) that explicitly states that it helps people "become a Software Engineer". 2. Yet, one of the organizers of the company (?) states "we blithely shepherded 300 to 500 new campers into our Slack every day, hopeful that this messaging company, now worth $2.8 billion, would hire more engineers to flog their LAMP stack application into shape." Thanks for this...you're now creating a culture of developers who "blithely" makes architectural decisions with little proper thought and publicly trash technology choices (in this case, LAMP). EDIT: Upon further review it looks like the person in question has a bit of an agenda... http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-MEAN-javascript-stack-vs-LAMP-stack/answer/Quincy-Larson?share=1 http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-MEAN-java... http://www.quora.com/Having-built-web-stuff-the-old-way-PHP-MySQL-back-in-the-day-and-wanting-to-build-a-new-account-based-web-site-app-that-can-handle-scaling-Whats-the-best-tech-approach-these-days/answer/Quincy-Larson?share=1 http://www.quora.com/Having-built-web-stuff-the-old-way-PHP-... I appreciate that people are stepping up to the plate and getting more people involved in coding, but this is seriously dogmatic and potentially harmful.