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This is the first thing I've read in this thread that explains the VC involvement in a way that makes sense.

A friend of mine works in a trading company. He said all the traders want to become devs, because it is the only skill that they've seen up close that translates outside of the mad…

And also the ability to run on Windows XP, where DirectWrite doesn't exist.

Yeah, it looks just like a nabaztag without ears.

I thought exactly the same thing. Those books are very educational, as well as entertaining. The main/only problem is it is sometimes hard to know where the fantasy starts and the …

Because if there's one thing the MS ecosystem needs, it's more dev fragmentation....

I heard a choir of discordant voices, and pictured something smooth, rectangular and black.

Depends on your demographic. 20% of our site visitors use IE8 :-(.

So if I bought an extra 2 years of applecare for my MBP do I get half that credited back, since it is only one 'extra' year?

Have you ever developed mobile UI? Sometimes there just isn't enough pixels.

You forgot the #firstworldproblems hashtag.

To mark the occasion of one of their colleagues leaving to be come a BizTalk consultant, the team built that person a web site. http://biztalklee.com/

Yes. I read "The Master Switch" and being crowned "The New Bell Labs" to me was synonymous with incredible innovation, which is the buried for decades to protect and entrenched pos…

Who says I haven't.

I never realized until recently how the high mobility of goods, flexible trade system etc. brought about by the rise of the Mongol empire a few centuries before, allowed the Buboni…

Seems about right vis a vis the need for algorithms to be correct. Good enough is, by definition, good enough.

There is a Japanese restaurant not far from me that uses a system like this. Your table/booth has an ipad you place orders on. Staff bring out the food to your table. You walk out …

Time to name and shame.

Your example worked fine for me, and returned a list of search results from HN for me with the words 'foo' 'bar' and 'baz'.

My take on this. Not to say some people don't 'do' software engineering....but it is still nascent. http://jcooney.net/post/2012/02/27/What-Other-Engineering-Di...

Yesterday when some apple users said their Macbook battery life had been impacted by the Mavericks upgrade the consensus on HN was that "people blame all kinds of problems on softw…

"by far the most benevolent hegemon in the history of the world" - I dunno....Great Britain/the commonwealth did a few good things. Pax Romana wasn't too bad. The mongols were pret…

In the absence of any evidence in the article to the contrary, I think point #1 is pretty suspect. A friend of mine built a business that was very much aligned with his personality…