Y, hopefully this can help us move off Go for some of our stack. Not that Go isn't a great language, but there are some cases where our external devs want to use other languages to extend/override base workflows, and Javascript is the #1 requested language.
Airware is building the operating system for commercial drones. We are currently hiring on our cloud team (Node.js), Ground Station team (C# and Node.js), and App Core team (Erlang, Python, Linux, and Javascript)
Startup with great funding, amazing cross-industry team.
Y, I've have several other friends with similar competitions at their companies, prizes handed out every few months. Fitbit isn't the only brand of fitness monitors.
Good HR departments are handing them out as part of Open Enrollment and Health programs.
I'll echo a few of the other responses, but with a slight twist.
I think you should look at Product Management in software. It is a field that requires a broad range of skills, including a very good understanding of how software is really made. But you also have to understand business, and then balance trade-offs between business needs and the amount of software that your team has time to crank out.
You will have to be both bold and humble. Bold in that you will have to be brave enough to try something new: You haven't been a Product Manager officially before, but your startup experience counts for a lot. Humble in that you can't say that you know exactly how to do Product Management, but it is such a multi-disciplinary role that is different for each team that you might work with that it is a place where you can go, and learn more and more for the next 10 years in your career.
Of course, that said, I'm talking about Silicon Valley. There are tons of jobs both for Product Managers and Programmers. So go interview. Go check out Monster, or Craigslist, and go find a few interviews for Product Manager positions. I know just about every startup in the valley is looking for both, and they also prefer people with previous startup experience.
Yeah, never isn't a likely timeframe for JVM restarts, especially in development, where the DCEVM really shines. You change some Java class, you have your Tomcat server running, you get your new behavior on your web app that you can test out right away without restarting Tomcat. It is a huge productivity boost.
I'm not convinced that you'd want to use DCEVM in production.
I haven't gotten a chance to play with this latest version of Ronin. I'm hoping to be able to setup my daughter to start developing her web-app on it soon.