JetBrains makes some good IDE's

Given that Ruby is catching up to Perl in sys admin your assertion that it doesn't play well to the underlying system is odd.

Even native desktop apps are easy in Ruby, with QT or many other cross platform UI libs.

Ruby's object system may have come from smalltalk but that doesn't mean that it ignores to underlying system like Smalltalk.

If you need an IDE to be able to do anything at all, yes you are a bad programmer.

Sure, it makes you more productive and helps with testing and building, but it also hides the details that you really do need to know.

If you can write good code without auto-complete and refactoring tools and test them manually and manually build the software, you are good to go.

IDE's are all too often used as crutches by people who treat programming as a black box.

Equating personal finances to a country's government budget is ignorance of the worst kind.

It's Oklahoma, what can you expect?

When a budget crises appears and school programs are predictably on the chopping block, the banks will swoop in and fund this course, including supplying the own classroom materials that they so kindly rewrote and printed.

Avoiding bad debt

FTFY

The best way to avoid having your game overrun by cheaters is by making it near impossible to cheat on it.

But that takes actual skill and effort unlike using invasive cheat detectors.

A proper degree is a good filter. Sure, it means that a few qualified candidates will slip through, but that would be at least 1 in 1000. With a degree, the odds that the candidate understands basic data structures, pointers, recursion, multiprocessing is much, much higher. A BS degree with a minimum of a 3.3 GPA increases the odds by several magnitudes. An MS degree with a minimum of 3.6 increases it even more.

Very few self-taught "programmers" have the necessary math and CS background to be useful. Most of them learned Java or PHP and wrote crappy web or simple GUI programs and thought they are now qualified to apply for jobs.

Why is it important?

I don't care if women enter the field in droves or stay away.

At least 50% of the mathematics graduates from under-grad to PhD. are women.

A sizable amount of students in Chemistry, Economics, and Biology are women.

In Engineering and Computer Science they are few and far between.

Why? I don't know and it doesn't matter in the slightest.

Does it matter that few day care providers or kindergarten teachers are men? Does it matter that few women are in construction or garbage collection? If it doesn't matter in these cases why should it matter in Computer Science?

The CS women that I have known fall in the same curve as men. Very few are excellent most are average or suck.

That isn't where he screwed up.

The problem is that there are two current, incompatible versions.

Ruby EOL'ed 1.8 and Python should have done the same for the 2.x branch.

Give it up and drop it, it sucks and is beyond fixing.

What happened to being able to disable ads?

gems is a huge plus for Ruby.

Bundler makes it even better.

Your home is where you live. The problem is idiots buy up massive amounts of property so they can rape latecomers and the current residents in the area

Since when did Google or Apple generate any meaningful tax revenue? Seriously, those companies are huge tax dodgers.

What is really stupid is Google and Apple employees paying more of their money in rent. Don't they have better things to do with their money then willingly pay more?

Another reason not to support Joyent in any way, shape or form.

99.999% of the projects on GitHub are idiotic and vile so by that logic, almost all the project need to be removed.

Besides, what is wrong with making fun of feminists that take themselves way too seriously?