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This is great -- I hate having compiler/runtime advances in Mac OS X always tied to the latest platform release. It can take years before your customer base upgrades, leaving you u…

I'd be curious to hear the reasoning of the users who 'upvote' Jeff Atwood articles such as this one.

The subject matter is interesting, but what I find most interesting is a blog performing real, 'hard-hitting' local journalism, of genuine interest to a very specific social subgro…

Keep money per answer out of this. It's amazing what happens when you keep a site like SO working on social norms and avoiding market norms. Other than money, how do you prevent an…

On the other hand, Stack Overflow is racing to the bottom, so to speak, on the quality of questions and the people answering them. Either way, money is what would entice me to answ…

How much money would make it worth your time? If your expertise is too high / too esoteric for the StackOverflow community, then you should command high prices in the marketplace. …

Until I clicked on the link, I was excited, as the comments on monetization lead me think they might be providing a marketplace for me to provide for-fee answers to users. Unfortun…

If this fable didn't hint at that, what was its point? That convincing management regardless of your productive output is what matters at the end of the day? Perhaps at some organi…

No, because an "anecdote", by definition, is not statistically relevant. "Enterprise teams" are not, inherently, profoundly stupid in their practice of software engineering, and no…

It's fairly easy to degenerate "enterprise developers" when you're defining what "enterprise" means.

I'm sorry but are you kidding here? You think a web developer who already has experience in all the tools used to create a web app is going to spend the equivalent amount of time l…

It's actually not that good a point. Using JQuery you can get a web app as low as 1k so slow connection isn't that big a problem. 1k is still a pretty unpleasant wait when you're l…

As an iPhone user, I strongly prefer native applications. They can integrate with the built-in technologies (address book, location, P2P, MDNS, etc), and they don't simply stop wor…

I'm familiar with game development. I make games for the iPhone in my spare time and I make more money than I ever have in my life, and my apps aren't even popular compared to thin…

If you really care, use a real standards-comformant address parser, most languages have at least one -- Java does. Otherwise you're just wasting your time, and the time of any user…

I seriously doubt that will happen. People have stopped buying $30 software for their computer, why would they buy it for their phone? Do you have statistics on that? My wife just …

If that's the case, then the market is unsustainable. Players will fail, causing scarcity, raising the value of applications, and conditioning users to expect to pay more.

Unless you produce one of the very few 'hits', you'll lose money developing a $1.99 application.

I think their price is more-or-less reasonable in terms of the value provided and in comparison to application pricing for other mobile platforms: http://www.berryreview.com/2008/0…

Given that conforming with the standard is effectively free, do you have any other justification for your non-conformal position of "I'd say 64 is enough. Anything above is just we…

I'm surprised (and confused) -- can you really include a great number of large, verbatim or nearly verbatim blocks of text from Wikipedia, cite them, and not be called out for plag…

You can empirically determine exactly what's in an opaque set of anything (NSArray's various public access methods) and exactly what part of the area of a view is covered by a subv…