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Damn, that is fucking stupid. Your post is bad, and you should feel bad.

I used to have a boss who would tell me how I had the power to do anything, to change the world, with my magical software-writing abilities. He didn't understand why I wasn't out starting my own business, with no one to tell me what to do. But there is always someone to tell you what to do. Whether it's your employer or your customer (and even that distinction is dubious), whoever has the money makes the rules.

I just get tired of people's laziness and lack of attention to detail. Not because I'm a perfectionist, because it causes problems. It often falls to me to figure out how exactly someone else fucked up. It gets old.

Dude, it's a social networking tool like any other, except it's based around photos. You know how this works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service

Sounds hard to me.

Instagram doesn't use Facebook, and is instead its own network.

Taking a photo is a creative endeavor, not necessarily an effort to flawlessly recreate how something actually appears to the human eye. Engineers frequently do not get this.

Now it will REALLY take off!

I don't think Google is on a good path right now, but I would majorly hesitate to compare them to Yahoo. Yahoo has dawdled for years with no clear vision of what the hell they are doing. In fact, you could argue that Page's current strategy is a play against turning out like Yahoo. It's a pretty clear vision, even if I don't like it, and it's certainly product-oriented. They're focusing on one product and streamlining all the random crap they used to do just for the hell of it.

I don't know what will happen with Google, but I don't see Yahoo's fate in their future.

Slow news day.

Wait, Android boosters always point out that it was around before the iPhone's release. Now we're saying it was created to keep Apple from controlling the mobile industry? Hmmmmmmm.

Well, I guess that is pretty much what I'm thinking. The barrier to entry is low, but that just means the barrier to having your userbase taken by Groupon or LivingSocial is equally low.

Strange that there is still so much daily-deal stuff being worked on. Is this really fertile ground for a business? (Honest question.) Is everyone still reacting to the Groupon IPO, even though that business has all sorts of smells?

Use Readable. http://readable.tastefulwords.com/

Come on, the author of TFA covers that point explicitly.

> This kind of casual copyright infringement, with no malicious intent, is exactly the kind of thing that SOPA was after.

Interesting - this article blames Amazon, another blamed the iPad squeezing BB's margins. I say the blame lies with the clueless way these stores have been run for years. thehigherlife's anecdote about trying to buy a cable is a good example. Consider the insane irony of the name "Best Buy" in the context of that story.

I guess I always thought it was a fool's errand to contribute to some company's corpus of knowledge which they will surely sell or profit from, and the only reward is an integer somewhere gets incremented. But it turns out the content on StackOverflow is licensed to the community in some way. So, I don't really have an excuse anymore.

I guess I don't agree with our current reverence for creation. It's easy to create things and shove them out into the world. The work that comes after, though, is unsexy, unglamorous, and usually less fun than the creation part. It's also where most of the value comes from.

I think .NET is great, and most of my career has been working in C#, but targeting Windows and developing on Windows is just a bummer.

Yeah, the only way to do that right would be to give the infinite scroll a container with a fixed height, and drive the infinite scroll based on the position of the container rather than the entire page.

We're just people who do a job. I find it distasteful, all this folklore and acting like we are bunch of special, precious gems who need our "flow" and should be allowed to dress and act like mutants. Read the Dale Carnegie book and get over yourself.

Pretty cool until you click a link in the list, go back, and make a sad face when you realize the list has reverted to the first 20 items or whatever. Then you have to scroll, wait, scroll, wait, scroll to get back to where you were.

Uh, awesome. Hope you had your finger on the button if you are an actual developer who wanted to go.

Clueless.

This is an incredible piece. Brutally honest, and I can absolutely see myself in the author's shoes.

Nice little shot at Gruber in there. Classy

I love JavaScript. C# is pretty rad too, but I do mostly front-end these days.

Ditto.

There will always be people who hate redesigns. People hate change. At my company, every time we've made something that we know is better than what came before it, there are people who bitch. After a while you learn to ignore that, which can be dangerous in itself. If everyone listened to these people we'd all be using Windows 95 still.

What if platform x costs 1.5 times as much to develop for, but then sells 3 times as many copies? (Assuming the same app price across platforms.)