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Try it for free: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/listacular-for-dropbox-rapid/id624606571?ls=1&mt=8 Listacular is a streamlined list and note app with Dropbox sync (txt). With List…

Studies show kids prefer Comic Sans for screen reading vs. common serif and sans-serif fonts (namely, Arial, Times, Courier). They prefer it for both appearance and readability: ht…

I've found that most people don't care about this unless you're delivering an extraordinary native experience (ala Path) A native app is great if you've got a team who can do it we…

You mentioned the logistical, technical and financial problems involved. Was part of the problem that you simply lost interest in the project?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill "The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the supposed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable…

UX guy and former management consultant here. I can tell you the grass is always greener... As a management consultant I was expected to grind out pointless "decks" (powerpoints) a…

I was speaking with a colleague about Node and he suggested using Coffeescript instead of JS directly for the exact reasons you mentioned. I'm also coming from Obj-C, C and Ruby ba…

Make this into an iPhone app and you'll probably get some very nice monthly dosh from it.

Except he didn't. In douchey-business-guy fashion he tries to put an entire community of transdisciplinary people in their place by telling them to be happy with handling the techn…

Exactly. A title bump means that the person will just leverage their position for the same/better position somewhere else with better pay.

Looks like he sells WordPress themes: http://www.inkthemes.com/

Nice. I'm wrapping a text-based todo/note taker now. I think there's still a lot of people who use these.

Perhaps no one should ever blog about anything they do and learn from? Unless, of course, it's a rocket ship or a fusion reactor. /HN

"It is in the education sphere" My immediate knee-jerk reaction (as someone currently in an emerging field within education): pursue it as a side project. You have a background and…

Please read Linus Torvald's book "Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolution" http://www.amazon.com/Just-Fun-Story-Accidental-Revolutionar... . It mostly deals with his ex…

I thought you were describing me, right down to the sales numbers. Agreed that the real cash here is in contracting. Use appstore apps as exemplars of your work, make your actual $…

The thing I notice about a lot of software/games/whathaveyou made by people Looking at this module, had you not informed us otherwise, I would have not have guessed the person that…

Same reason this happened: http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/on-politics/2... His website was designed by agency. The agency tasked a designer to create layout, includ…

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." - Blaise Pascal

$250,000 per developer with qualified subject matter experience in your company's native technology. And there's 20 of them. It's a friggin' steal!