Agreed, but it's important that companies like 23andme don't market these tools as a complete tool for knowing what you'll get in the future, since there's still plenty more research to be done on many of these markers (and they're definitely not all inclusive of the diseases we face).
The dangerous thing about these tests is that they only show if you have a marker for a particular diseases/affliction . This doesn't mean that you'll get the disease - we're still amateurs at this technology and I don't know if I want to live my life perpetually fearful of a disease that I have a marker for, but no relevant data on what the chance that I'll actually get that disease.
I'm at UCLA now, and over the last few weeks I've seen front page classifieds for DB hiring front end and backend devs. They're definitely paid hourly (I think I saw 14/hour, but I may be wrong)
I'm a fourth year bioengineering major @ UCLA looking to switch fields into something more hacker - User exp. design or simply coding. Have done some coursework in C++/run a website w/ drupal @ www.bruinco.com. Would love to work an internship in Bay Area or LA.
Maybe I should have been more forward thinking in the terminology :D. Not sure I want to go into speaking about the cloud and moving all our services away from local processing. : )
I'd be willing to put you up in LA when I'm down there for school (late September). I can also introduce you to someone in San Francisco who is a UIUC alum and is running a web dev business (I think there's a few other UIUC guys there too working with him). E-mail in my profile.