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On a related note, I would be interested to hear what parts of your company's product you have opened. Funny you asked. I happened to work for a startup that got acquired by a big&…

Yeah. Every time when someone tries to make a case for memchached they bring in Facebook and LiveJournal. Well guess what: you aren't Facebook. You don't serve 21,000 requests per …

I am arguing against this line: "People often write in higher level languages because they want lots of bad code fast." Even if this is true, it's true only in enterprise software …

It's not a secret that most if not all YC-funded startups are built on top of mountains of free code written by someone else. Nobody here pays for XML parsing libraries or POP3 imp…

You said "not really" and then agreed with me. Moreover, you only confirmed my theory that when people say "open source" it usually means commercial companies milking OSS developer…

So? Despite being useful, what's so interesting about CRUD programming for the enterprise? I've been there, I've had my share of dealing with coworkers that openly admit that they …

That's because our system somehow rewards real estate speculators, mortgage brokers, middle management, lawyers and healthcare professionals way more than it rewards engineers. I d…

I am not sure why are you bringing enterprise software into the discussion. Despite being the most popular form of employment for "programmers" it has always been the absolutely lo…

... which is very "nice" on their part, especially after milking the OSS community for 90% of the code for their OS.

I think a better (and cheaper) way to do this would be to create a custom CSS file and assign it to ycombinator.com in Safari.

I considered (and agreed with myself) Thinkpad T500 which is in the mail. :-)

I guess it heavily depends on a market segment, but for "family computer software" it is true: lots of PC users playing with free/evaluation versions but for when it comes to premi…

Hm... I get exact same stripes about twice a month, usually when it gets really hot, most commonly when watching a movie via Hulu or iTunes. But it always goes away if I turn it of…

You're lucky: I also do desktop software but we can't afford to ignore the growing number of Mac users. While they still represent only about 8% of all computer purchases, they acc…

Makes perfect sense: they've clearly separated traditions and habits from religion. The tradition of getting married in church is no different from a habit of screaming "jesus moth…

prospero, I have been looking for C++ replacement for desktop programs non-stop for at least 5 years and found nothing . Rubies, lisps and pythons are great in a little dark corner…

Internet is no longer what it was, because it has entered the mainstream.

63 points for these "news"? A public rant about a competitor is "news" here? And how ethical is it to blog about such things? I've never seen a CEO of a company publicly bitching a…

63 points for these "news"? A public rant about a competitor is "news" here? And how ethical is it to blog about such things? I've never seen a CEO of a company publicly bitching a…

You just saved me 30 minutes of googling for these answers. Thanks a bunch.

Agreed. He's suggesting that most people haven't realized the possibilities of it yet. I am observing the opposite: the mainstream public (looking at my non-techie friends) have be…

UI on JVM suggestion? Again? There are very good reasons why this combination hasn't been particularly popular. C++ with a few libs like MFC or WTL continues to rule on Windows bei…