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Very poor piece. I didn't get anything more from the article than the headline already has.

For a politician "shielding from public view" is the same as "shielding from consequences". Do you agree? If you still disagree with the quote, then you're saying that people will …

Link to article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/21/60minutes/main6978...

How well do these startups pay (as a point of reference, RethinkDB offered an absurdly low salary for what amounted to a top-5% developer)? I think the original article might have …

Well said. I've read that memory is an integral strength of high performers in fields such as chess and music. And btw, you can extend this casual dismissal of expertise to knowled…

If you're getting downvoted on HN for criticizing Microsoft, you might want to take a serious second look at those comments. Oh btw, I took a look at them and if anything you're ge…

Thank you for your follow up. Clearly your experience is far outside my world. I've never heard of an outside consultant being brought in to second guess the company's "architect".…

False dichotomy ($1B vs zero). Actually, in my experience, developers understand the business quite well. It's the other business functions which doesn't understand development. Yo…

Which Unix kernel is the analog of this truck? i.e., keeps chugging under extreme CPU/memory/IO/interrupts/multithreading load?

I used to participate using a recognizable name for networking reasons. But I was self-censoring myself too much, since I don't agree with lots of HN's groupthink. So I switched to…

No, the experience on the MBP is not so much better as to warrant getting it for development. IMHO, it's worse. My biggest gripes: (1) built-in terminal doesn't do fullscreen, (2) …

Interesting. Can you elaborate with some examples?

I would start thinking this way: how much effort are you putting into serving this small market? If the effort is small, ROI might be worth it.

Interesting. Are you sure taxation ends after 10 years?

Have the "real" economics gurus like Greenspan (snicker) delivered?

I'm not sure I agree with you. But upvoted for not censoring yourself.

Thank you for giving some sane advice, instead of peddling the magical "single source/multiplatform" promise.

It's in Microsoft's interests for there to be a strong alternative C# implementation. This is just so they can reassure their customers against the risk of vendor lock-in (and M$ d…

Why do you think Google picked Java in the first place (and not a "really" open language like C++, Javascript, or Python)? To appeal to as many developers as possible on Day 1. Fur…

Somebody please write a blocker for this. Do we need something special, or can we just add some rules to AdBlock Plus to work around these antisocials? Good job funding this garbag…

I don't understand the hype. I downloaded and installed the Mac binaries, but it couldn't compile the STL headers that Xcode installed. It's FAR from production quality, IMHO.

Thanks, that's a good point.

Interesting. But I don't necessarily agree that all merchants are pissed off. One merchant I bought from had a direct store and an Amazon store. The Amazon store price was higher (…

Unlikely to work. Companies will just invoke the "false negative better than false positive" heuristic.

Organized crime AND /or labor groups? Really?