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I really like what you are doing, but after seeing what happened to RailsCasts I am a worried what will happen to this business model once it hits 400+ episodes. Hopefully your "ot…

I had an interesting discussion with a colleague yesterday who raised some questions I couldn't answer: 1. Who funds open source projects and the main contributors to those project…

That's how I have always seen it though - top flaps open... I still can't see how the base of the box is aligned :(

"Mark Zuckerberg's design team is his imperial guard. They work closer to him than any other discipline in the company" Interesting... as I don't rate fb's design at all...

OM had an article about why FB prefers MySQL and quotes FB's Mark Callaghan for his reasons. Did anyone ever ask whether Callaghan's previous 8 years at Oracle had any impact of wh…

Interesting... Are you measuring by the number of users or revenue?

Hi Oliver, Thanks for participating in this thread. Just out of curiosity, how will your service differentiate from iCloud for Apple users?

An idea without execution isn't worth anything. You'll be doing all the work up front and then all the work maintaining and improving. You're also not a flight risk as it sounds li…

I'd hire you if you kept on going with your answer... you've shown the following traits already: - ability to analyse the problem - talk about possibilities, thus displaying commun…

The following are some of the main misconceptions of what's floating around between the blog, TC comments and HN comments. Misconception 1: answering programming questions tells if…

Does anyone else find it annoying when job ads, landing pages, logos and companies are based on NINJA's? The use/reference/depiction of NINJA's seems absurd. Ninja's are silent, ba…