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Could someone explain what the point of Dropbox as a company is now? They literally own their space, everyone loves them, and I'm sure they're making money hand-over-fist. However,…

Link bait title aside, I'm a little bored with these "We don't like x, so you shouldn't use it" articles. The main downside of MongoDB is that it's new. This means less knowledge o…

> or remove useless buttons like the calculator and timer buttons Pure opinion here. Personally I use the calculator a lot on my phone, and love having a quick way to access it. Th…

...and those of you who were laid off will no doubt be reading this email on our website as security has shut down your network access and escorted you from the building.

I really liked this part: >Throw in with Apple and see if we can all make a go of this to create a real mainstream ebooks market at $12.99 and $14.99. Basically Jobs is saying "Hey…

You're making a pretty big assumption that everyone works in consumer-facing markets, and not with small- to medium-sized businesses. The app store model is broken because it has t…

I'm an iOS developer in Dallas too. Without going into too much bagging on our terrible developer community, I will say that you have a couple of choices: 1. Bag a few freelance gi…

Someone coming in cold to freelancing will spend time building up to this level. They may need to take $50/hr jobs for a few months to build up a portfolio and references, and grad…

> Yahoo! Mail is still the #3 most used mail service in the world with Hotmail and Gmail in front of it. I'd love to see numbers of how many people ACTIVELY use these services and …

Pretty common in BigCorp land. The problem is that many of these IP Agreements are very badly worded. The spirit is that you should not take work you do for your employer and turn …

Where are the lies? Where's the fraud? How is any of this misrepresented? This is more of the ever-popular "eat the rich" sentiment. Frankly, until someone can show that: a) she do…

> Assuming I Am Only The Last Thing I Was I can't tell you how much this annoys me. I've been programming professionally for over a decade now, and I've done a lot of things: C#, P…

Everything seems to come back to that good ol' fashioned advice: "Do what you love and the money will follow" It's pretty cliche, but the point is that you need to actually enjoy w…

Rob's book and the Micropreneur Academy is exactly what I was thinking of when I mentioned "hand waving" I've read the book twice, and subscribed for several months. I found that t…

Is there a decent resource for learning how to sell a product? Most of us can code and implement the technical parts of a business, but what we need is a Codeacademy for marketing.…

The problem that we all face, especially when we're new is that of discovery. Until you reach a certain level of notoreity online, creating your own little sandbox doesn't make sen…

Working Remotely != Working from home. Often when I'm working remotely, I'm either in a coffee shop or a co-working location, vary rarely at home. I don't like driving, so being ab…

Are unpaid internships something that's uniquely common in NYC? I scan Craigslist all the time for freelance opportunities and almost every single unpaid gig in New York is touted …

The reason I'm upset, is that it sets a precedent for other companies: "Oh, look at Yahoo not allowing remote employees, maybe we shouldn't either" which sets our industry back 10 …

The author of the piece, Penelope Trunk, has a well-established pattern: write a highly flammable headline followed by a long, off-the-cuff piece intended to grab attention and gen…

Seeking Work, Dallas - Remote Full stack developer: Node, PHP, Ruby/Rails, SQL and MongoDB Mobile: iOS I'm a super-generalist. I've done everything from developing for obscure ERP …

The best interview I ever had, I was given a problem to solve with a system, a whiteboard and 20 minutes. I sketched out a quick ERD, and explained the high level architecture of t…

Objective-C is a very verbose language. However, the author seems to be intentionally not using any of the features that Apple has built into LLVM that makes it more concise partic…