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Thats how I write CSS. A good front-end dev can write one set of clean CSS for Chrome, FF, IE8 and IE7 with a small set of styles in an IE6-specific stylesheet.

Combine clean CSS with SCSS (http://sass-lang.com/) for mixin awesomeness and also PIE.css (http://css3pie.com/) for CSS3 on IE. Thats pretty much the winning combo IMO.

Will they hire someone remotely, especially someone with heavy ruby/rails exp?

+1 for Authentic Jobs. The jobs are generally high quality but it can be quite competitive to get selected since so many people are watching this job board very closely.

Great Article! Obscene title. Best of luck with it.....

I live near Chicago so I am thinking either the part-time program at Northwestern or UChicago. Definitely considering the Berkeley-Columbia program also.

Agree that nothing can replace good counsel in a sticky situation. I just want a greater comfort level on the topics.

Thanks for the advice. Yeah I would definitely be doing it part-time. Yeah I too want a better comfort level with accounting, finance, contracts esp and hopefully topics like big acquisitions ;)

Business Tier?

Why ROR? Speedy development, fun programming language, easy to build, test, iterate, repeat etc. Easy to migrate DB's, lots of scaffolding to reduce amount of code you need to write. Tons of great plugins written for the stack, very active community, some incredibly talented developers work on the stack.

ROR is perfectly suited for building out a great web app, quickly. And yes, it does scale ;)

I would prefer to download the file over streaming. Please try to record the series somehow. I would even be willing to pay for it. As would others I am willing to bet.

Don't say "The position didn't work out", which would cause suspicion and make you look bad.

Blame them (Flaky Corp) for acting unprofessional.

Go into your current manager, tell them you are in a really difficult and awkward situation. That you have had some communications very recently that have made you very uncomfortable with the new company and made you reconsider your decision.

Your Boss will understand that messed up stuff happens sometimes and will want to avoid interviewing for the position. Tell your Boss you honestly do not want to leave the company now given this situation and that you want your old job back.

Value yourself and take charge of the situation. Dont just allow an awkward ego-feeling or unprofessional behavior by Flaky Corp to own you!

No and no. I have only had traditional stock options which are essentially funny money that are vested over a period of years. You still have to purchase the stock but after the stock is vested you just get the ability to execute once there is an equity event such as IPO or sale...

Building a startup with a business model that is totally reliant on another startup seems like a bad decision. Might be better to diversify at this point.

Options are pretty much worthless till you can execute them. Even then theres only a one time cash-in-hand situation. Believe me I have a ton of options right now and its not helping ;)

"it is not something that is ready for the prime time."

Thats why millions of users are using hundreds of large scale web apps right now built on Rails and/or Ruby (ie: Github, Slideshare, Hulu, Justin.tv, Basecamp, Alice.com ...the list goes on and on http://rails100.pbworks.com/Alexa+Rankings).

Right...

Might want to do some homework before making such a statement. True Ruby has memory issues. Running Ruby enterprise edition by passenger helped us a ton. Typically memory issues have to do with poorly written ruby more than anything...which rails makes it easy to do....like Product.all.each type stuff ... stupid example

300K inboulder? Where do you live? 300K is like C-suite salary in most of the country.