I think once you've become a webdeveloper you've already shot yourself in the head ;) Server side is the place to be :)

Good points but you and other RP suggestor give. I agree NS isn't the way to go. It least for me and most people I meet they aren't say no JS they are saying I don't want this particular piece of JS running. More granularity is needed so the video on the page you are viewing works while the sidebar add that wants to run a video doesn't. Being able to specify policies blocking the shadier parts of the web would be nice.

Not sure if it would be granular enough. I use Google products and would want js to work but only when I'm actually browsing to one of their sites. Similarly with others: blocking JS that only comes from and points too things internal to the site I choose to browse too I'm okay with. Generally it is when they bounce me around/send data elsewhere I'm not aware of that I don't like. After all viewing donkey porn is obvious to the site you visit but that doesn't mean you want eBay knowing about it.

True but claiming to save 5% of load time by making a browser while at the same time marketing products that slow down the page load in the first place seems kind of circular.

10 years ago did every frigging page talk to a dozen different sites about your browsing history before loading? How about having lots of video? There is still more developers would love to cram in but there is about 0.5/2s window where you can load before people get bored and leave we just load more crap and do more client side processing now to use up the bandwidth and CPU. Oh yeah and latency as others mention: you still got to push the electrons around.

Agreed we are just a couple Stanley Cups away from getting some good flag burning going on north of the border. Used to be people always talked about how we are in things together now it is bitching about how the PM is a puppet or how some dumb US law is going to force canadian governments or companies to follow along since they have business interests there.

I think Google and FB and others like them have a lot of blame to share for the web needing a 10X fatter pipe to get the same speed: if every freaking page didn't have to talk to Google Analytics, send your cookie to FB for tracking etc either before (likely) or during page load perhaps you could actually enjoy the content you are there for in the first place on a slow connection. Now you need the fast pipe just to get all the preamble out of the way to all parties interested.

Nah it would never leave your house. Otherwise how is Google going to collect all that analytics data?

The thing is acceptance testing (which might include a TDD development style so you can see that each thing is enforced by a test as working). But either way once the customer has said "yeah that is what I wanted thanks" you're done IMHO. If they come back with oh remember that email from 3 months before the project started when I said I wanted it to talk to Amazon? That never made it in the box.

If it is obviously my error I don't mind fixing it but if you are having fluid communication with the client and things are wrapping up and everyone at the table agrees the system is done to bad. People dream up features daily but unless they care enough to make sure it is in the box (or explicitly stated in the contract) before handing the money over who's to know what feature idea is actually an acceptance criteria?

Exactly. Bugs happen. Hire good contractors but at some point even good people are going to make mistakes. If you don't pay for bugs but still expect to have the contractor fix them you better be paying an above market rate for the code since it is going to have to cover the cost of the time that will inevitably be spent fixing bugs too.

Hire someone in house: then what they just fix bugs? Could work but as you mention they need a boat load of languages, are handling lots of code written to different standards and (at least to me) bug fixing is boring/less interesting work. Expect to pay oddles for someone to do that job. Skilled people are expensive get used to it. Either pay what they can get on the market or find another business to be in.

I say tie grant money (if there should be any is another debate) to taxes. In order to keep the grant money you have to have taxable income in the country. Essentially make them non-refundable tax credits. Also make them only able to be applied to a certain percentage of the total taxes due so that companies have to claim/repatriation large amounts in order to get their write-offs.

Another option: taxes owed are a function of where you do business. If you are registered in the US but claim that your income is from overseas prove it. I say something like 70% is weighted based on where real dollars in the bank account originate (do what you want with US companies getting money from your country but US dollars going to US companies are going to get taxed period) not where you attribute them (doing shinanigans like claiming Cokes recipe is owned by a company in the Bahamas and the US revenue is paying huge royalties doesn't cut it). The other 30% would be where your employees are. That gives a bit of wiggle room for companies that legitimately do hire a lot of their staff overseas to actually assign a portion of their business to where it is actually being operated. Businesses are essentially operations and sales and both should be taken into account when calculating taxes not some shady circular ownership plan that allows them to claim to operate out of a lawyers office even with 10's of thousands of employees in country and negligable customers in the their "operating" country.

Tell them "This has never happened to me before." of course.

Yeah I usually don't share my fetish for tranny midget shieser porn until the second date.

Can you use the tools and techniques needed for the product? Yes/No? Whether you are hiring or determining to retain staff they have to be able to do the work. Only janitors have the luxury of being able to use the same techniques they did 20 years ago when they got their jobs.

Or even if they are things will be highly interrelated I'd imagine. For example those with a low socioeconomic status that get a strong early education likely also have other factors that lead to success (for example supportive parents the drive to succeed since there is a good chance they had to travel to get out of the ghetto schools etc). Both math and reading are rather dull subjects for most kids. Those that do well at them probably tend to have a pretty high weighting to how important success is to them/their parents. So is it the success mindset or the success itself that is causative as an adult?