+1 to this as it happened to me and I live in Florida!

I was going to point out the "MS Stack" problem myself. Seattle is not the place for MS developers because outside of Microsoft, no one uses them. I've gotten interviews with Amazon and it's all Java/Linux/Unix work. Leave the dark side and join us in the light, you'll not only get paid more, but you'll enjoy more opportunities as well. - Former MS Stack Developer

why didn't I buy 1,000 bitcoins when they were $50 a few years ago!!!

I was just thinking the same thing. By all this media attention on the fact he wants to remove those photos, he's essentially creating the Streisand effect. I wouldn't be surprised if my this time next week there's 10000x more references to those photo's online.

S - Software A - Against P - Productivity

Apparently where I work, it's documentation. It's so hard, we don't have any.

Barbarians = One who would argue the length of a fiber connection to his server costed him $X in lost profits from HFT.

And how is the linked ZDNet "review" a review? It's just a glorified slideshow...

He can't sue. Florida is a "At Will Employment" state. The only thing you can sue for here is Discrimination. In Florida, you can be fired for anything, with or without reason, and you can quit, with or without reason.

This too. I stopped reading at that point. My suggestion, just get rid of him. If he doesn't want to learn, doesn't want code reviews, can't use a VCS, he's not worth keeping around no matter how much business knowledge he knows. He's garbage.

If you can learn all that, and retain it, your good. Keep doing what your doing and you'll have a bright career regardless of age. The reason why so many "older" folk are removed/forced/quit from IT is because they reach a point where they stop learning. Either through their own mind-set (I can grep so why use XYZ to do what I've been doing for 20 years, example) or from their lack of learning ability. I say, if you can learn to be competitive and have fun doing it and enjoy doing it then by all means your totally employable. I've hired older programmers simply because they kept up with the times and actually love what they do. It's the ones who continue to use java struts or EJB that I kick to the curb.

The demographic that they are forgotting forgetting [would] be the Grammar Nazis

Sure you can compile mono code with vs. But it's still a windows stack just ported to *nix. I love mono, don't get me wrong. I also love C# even though I'm a more java guy than anything. But for this guy to oogle over visual studio with such fanboi-ism as to neglect the fact that TFA talks about live programming and how awesome it would be for direct feedback of variables and scope and the like to preach the microsoft kool-aid to us /.'s is ridiculous.

seriously? Now I admit that Visual Studio is feature rich, only on windows, only with microsoft stacks, and doesn't compile things in a normal fashion (see #pragma) this above comment just oozes microsoft troll...

I was gonna mention that worrying about scaling before the app is built is a waste of time. Build the app. Get to your capacity. Modify app. Grow some more. Iterate that several hundred times and you build as you grow, you bill as you grow, and you scale as you grow. Don't fret worrying about how to serve to millions before you've served to thousands.