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The reason why people don't use Windows Phone is because they don't want to. It's easy to say in a place like HN that there is a "social stigma" around using Windows, but for the a…

I don't know if it is a question of whether they are in or out of fashion. Some people can pull off pleats, but when they don't look good, they really don't look good. If someone i…

My little brother is interested in getting into digital animation, and once upon a time Adobe Flash would have been the obvious route. These days, though, it seems like things are …

My standard answer to this, assuming I am starting out with a normal job-posting's worth of information, is "I don't know that I do want to work at X yet. That's one of the things …

Except that prejudices aren't always developed so much as taught/learned. The standard trope that "the young folk get technology" is accepted as axiomatic, and passed down, regardl…

Based on experience, I would agree with you on the Magento front (as my perpetually-in-the-planning-stages blog "I Hate Magento" will attest), but I have yet to find anything more …

I seem to remember something like that as well. However, writing down for your own benefit != telling someone else.

Is there something along these lines that has data for multiple open source projects? I think a lot of folks (myself included) would benefit from something that could provide some …

Did you actually read the article? She's wasn't upset that there was less bathroom capacity for women, but rather that this illustrated the (in her view) woefully meager representa…

Not necessarily. It's possible that with a lower minimum wage, Canada's unemployment rate might be even lower. The best you can hypothesize is that all things being equal minimum w…

At the same time it has received a ton of press up-front, in exactly the circles early adopters of the service would frequent. I think there is a feeling (right or wrong) that if t…

>>Suits are uncomfortable... This tells me you've probably never worn a really well-fitting suit. I don't mean this to sound smug. I agree that for the work environment of the aver…

If you're hiring the right people, you shouldn't need a formalized rule that says "don't steal people's lunch from the fridge" (an example given).

Visiting the home page gives the impression of someone's not-quite-technical mother trying to "do a meme."

I can't remember if I've heard Amy reference Steven Pressfield, but there are definitely strains of (the excellent and go-read-it-right-now) The War of Art to be found here.