I love how the writer is able to downplay all the issues regarding net neutrality.
Or how he's focusing on the carrier markets, instead of the broadband connections @ home. Because, there is no competition in the States when it comes to broadband connections. You can only choose one and it depends on where you live. How far-fetched is it to imagine that either Verizon or AT&T is implementing zero-rating for services like Netflix or some other service, basically urging people to lock-in on those services?
Anyway, it's exactly this attitude and mentality that requires net neutrality.
I agree to some extent, years of experience doesn't necessarily equate to competence, however, it does help in determining whether or not that person is at least capable of dealing with problems so common in our development world.
It's not _just_ about the technical skill, our jobs require us to communicate, think, analyze problems/challenges, troubleshoot, fix bugs, oh and also, on occasion, write code :P
Yeah pretty much this; on average I sleep 7 hours, but I can go in to "overdrive" mode and sleep less hours while not losing focus/drive to produce, this only lasts 2 days though, after that I really need to "recalibrate"