Hal Finney was a great match for Satoshi. And he's dead.

or Edge (the classic one, not the Chrome-based rewrite).

With Safari I'll be forced to buy a new Macbook soon and that is risky because of the keyboard shenanigans, and with Edge there will be no Edge soon. :-(

The best european developers are not that keen to move to States, no matter type of visa.

So the proper course of action is to start development company in Europe to price undercut the US developers. Seems like a great business opportunity.

If your SOC / CSIRT has an oncall policy you should have hired more people. Source: am manager at a CSIRT involved in nation-scale incidents. We have 24/7 coverage and nobody works overtime or is oncall.

I got my first Internet porn from Gopher. I had no access to Usenet then, but one University offered access to Usenet through Gopher and that included alt.* hierarchy and specifically alt.sex.* hierarchy.

They're fighting Russian hackers and Russian, American and Israeli spies (APT-s). Read their reports.

If this is so easy, why anyone didn't do that before?

Not my chance, I'm not based in US, and the last two companies I worked for spoiled the chance by making everyone in IT incorporate then signing them up as subcontractor and not a salaried employee. Illegal as a hell, but when it comes out, both sides are guilty,and as a incorporated subcontractor you are not subject of labor laws and you cannot join/start an union.

This is one thing I can't understand as a person with 15 years of experience in the IT industry (various roles): why there aren't any programmers or sysadmins or general IT unions. Everyone thinks that he will outdo the unwashed average masses of the IT workers and hit it big in the next big start-up, or what?

I just quit, after 10+ years in IT. I now do some consulting work, but mainly write technology stuff for a news site, and nobody calls me at three in the morning because a vowel crashed and won't rejoin the rest of the word cluster after the reboot, and the whole site won't load further in the browser. FSM, I really hated the RHCM stuff.

I miss the money, a little, but definitely not the stress, nor the anxiety.

Also, when at a party someone asks "what do you do for a living" answering "I'm a journalist" results in much more positive reactions (also, from the females of the species), than when I answered "I'm a senior sysadmin at [company]". And I can point a finger to the screen and say "I wrote this!", which was not possible in the case of Puppet deployment which took most of the year (along with day to day wrangling with operations stuff and RHCM lossage).

So, there is life after "Microserfs", after all.