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To my mind, it's not a huge market, but purists definitely exist. Do they justify the cost? It seems worth analyzing, but it's definitely a big cost if you want to stay cross-platf…

Much as I would like to give Gruber credit for asking about the developer relationship with the App Store at the top of the interview, the question really felt like a softball. I k…

As an Iowan who has had the dubious pleasure of having used Shadow's software, I would like a lot of scrutiny directed at both Shadow and their software. I worked as a Precinct Cap…

By way of talking my own book, I would note that the experience of having a big-screen tv, surround sound, and your PS4 on the plane is nothing to sneeze at. As someone who puts in…

Large defense contracts tend to span large numbers of Congressional Districts in order to enable the sort of economic protectionism that keeps the F-35 and JTRS funded to the tune …

Mike Monteiro has a series of very opinionated (and highly-entertaining) presentations on this phenomenon, coming from the perspective of a designer. If what neilv is saying resona…

Within the financial services industry, there are significant monetary incentives for whistleblowers to come forward with evidence of malfeasance. The SEC offers something like 0.5…

“There is no loyalty in business, Ashley. You’re a single mom. You have a family and you owe it to them to see this Microsoft interview through.” A truth that is not repeated nearl…

Obviously going out of his way to implement in a secure way as a software practitioner. I would love to see a review of the design and implementation from the standpoint of a secur…

Smile is doing this because they have to 100% agree. I feel that a lot of the commentary on this (mine included) has left out the fact that Smile is a classy company owned by a cla…

TextExpander has always been straddling the markets of "casual consumer with $20 to spend on an app that reduces pain" and "professional customer willing to spend $199 to reduce ma…

Looking at your pricing structure and FAQ, it looks like a better approach would be to discriminate based on number of properties, raise your monthly rate and just make it unlimite…

I know way too many developers whose understanding of server infrastructure only extends as far as the API for S3. Marco's advice is dead-on: learn the nuts and bolts rather than b…

Teaching falls into the same category as stage magic, stand-up comedy and writing - it looks easy and effortless when done by an expert because that's part of the expertise. Captur…

"Now, I didn’t necessarily see the winning groups site, but you don’t have to – it was made in Dreamweaver!" I want to believe that the arrogant tone in combination with this line …

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The most frustrating part about this to me is the certain knowledge that all of the informed parties are quite happily cherry-picking statistics to serve a political narrative and …

In a world where journalists had unlimited research budgets and the time to run facts to ground, this sort of campaign to link Myhrvold's "good" name to his patent-trolling deeds w…

To my mind, this sort of thing is a lot like crypto research. As a workman programmer, I know next to nothing about crypto algorithms so I can read the documents, but I can't provi…

"For many folks outside of our community, the acronym SEO has (unfair) associations with spam or manipulation." I'm not sure that the association is unfair. There are a lot of hone…

I will confess to being somewhat concerned regarding the author's legal plight. He's making a claim of bad faith on the other party to his contract and saying, "due to it many brea…