Was anyone else like "wtf is a one day office?"

At first read yes. I thought it meant that there is an office shared by 5 people and they each go "to the office" 1 day a week and the other 4 they work at home.

<epic fail>

I'd like to think that most people who become wealthy enough to have the option of retiring early are motivated by something other than money.

What makes you think that? I would think that those motivated primarily by money are overrepresented among early retirees, if only because people motivated primarily by something else (helping people, changing societies, becoming the best by some criterion) will focus on that goal. Getting rich is something most people have to aim at.

Surely having a concentration of world wide IT talent in the US is a good thing? Even aside from that, I would have thought protectionism is not something that will help the IT industry in any shape or form.

As much as I enjoyed the blog post, I enjoyed reading through the comments to see folks who offer their opinion without having even read to the bottom of what is a short post even more.

I've been using PyCharm for 2 years now and I love it. I am thinking of buying WebStorm, as the web app I work on has gotten a lot more JS heavy.

Would I be better off getting IntelliJ and getting plugins for it, or having PyCharm and WebStorm separately? This has an impact down the road when I have to renew licences!

Is there a reason you need Webstorm? From what I have tried to find, Pycharm includes Webstorm features and any missing features (Node.js) can be downloaded as a plugin.

Do you know any specific feature that you are looking for that is not in Pycharm? I am in a similar situation and was wondering the same.

Tethras (http://tethras.com) is built entirely on top of App Engine for Python. We're a fully managed app translation service. We've found a lot of the baked in features like map reduce and the search api really help us with out with our translation memory and translation search implementations.

I block: w3schools.com, I think it's fairly well publicised why these guys aren't a good resource.

about.com, I dont like getting my results from content farms, and these guys seem to show up for almost everything.

Your argument applies to almost any electronic product - including the one you're typing this message on. There is of course some environmental impact associated with purchasing and eventually disposing of electronic good. If they are disposed of properly however, they don't end up on beaches in Hawaii.

Solution to mail.app problem: either make the middle column bigger, or don't use it in full screen.