People working in gov sector risk their jobs for expressing political views. IT and other private sector workers are much more liberal. Supporting private companies helps democracy
50 appear as a small number, but our stats say that's enough for most early-stage startups. Apps with 100000+ downloads usually have under 100 monthly conversations.
PHP developers are much much more qualified than Python/Ruby/Java devs for the same price in my area. You can hire PHP dev who can TDD for $10/hour. Or you can have a Ruby junior who brags about Ruby and cannot ship things