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Please, please, please, do not use hover controls. They are useless for touch users as well as screen readers, and the discoverability is poor. Modals are also really really hard t…

I run the Pivotal office in Singapore. Breakfast is wonderful, but it's hardly mandatory. Standup at 9:06 is important, though. In order for pairing to work, you need to have every…

I've worked with Eno (the OP) on the product that he's talking about (Cloud Foundry). It's worth noting that the first versions of Cloud Foundry were written in Ruby/Sinatra for th…

Predictability. We pair program, so we need everybody to be there at the same time. People sometimes work less, due to doctor appointments, child care, home repairs, and such. Howe…

I'm not convinced it's optimal! However, it's a "known good" number that's easy to convince people to follow along with. Running experiments is hard and expensive, so we just haven…

We use Pivotal Tracker, and it's pretty easy to see how many bugs are popping up and how often. Code quality shows up in your velocity over time. My favorite saying right now is "q…

I enforce a militant "40 hours only" policy for my employees, and it's incredible for productivity. When you work longer hours defect rates increase, code quality drops, and things…

You're clearly the target market for these new MBPs, and that's great. Glad you have a machine that fits your needs. People with more strenuous computing needs are miffed because t…

Clarification: Your code != your startup. You can have a polished high quality codebase, but still have a dying startup because you've built something that nobody wants. Conversely…

I work at one of those "contracting shops" (Pivotal Labs), and I think you're misunderstanding the reason we push TDD so damn hard: It's not about speed. It's about predictability.…

I know because I've seen it. My wife and I used to live in China, and we did traveling in both the high and the low places. I can't speak to the particulars in Daisey's story (sinc…

What's really tragic here is that the truth in Mr. Daisey's story will get dragged down by the weight of his lies. Chinese factory conditions are often horrible, and there's often …

This is fantastic news. WebOS has always been full of great ideas, but held back by shaky underpinnings. It's like the inverse of most open-source projects. Great UI, not-so-hot im…

Full disclosure up front: I work for IndieGoGo. I can't speak for other crowdfunding platforms, but I assume that they're similar on this topic. A lot of people bring up the possib…

IndieGoGo, San Francisco CA H1B okay, No telecommute (sorry) IndieGoGo is a rapidly growing funding platform, based in beautiful San Francisco. Our site is used by people all over …

Who says they haven't been? They certainly were in markets where Symbian was dominant. When I was in China (2008-2009), the developer support for Symbian was dramatically better th…

I am amazed that we've got 56 comments on this thread, and nobody's brought up market share. Android has been beating the bejeezus out of iOS on unit sales for a while now, both in…

I'm a Tepco (Tokyo) customer. Looking at my most recent electric bill we're paying about 22 yen a kWh, or around 27 cents. That'll probably go up with Fukushima out of commission.

Smartphones were better than regular phones during this emergency. My android phone was useless for voice and SMS, but still had a data connection. So, my wife and I were able to s…

I'm curious what flaws he sees with the WebOS notification system. It's hands-down the most elegant notifications I've seen on any platform. Initial notifications are minimally int…

Speaking as someone who's automating a large-ish business right now: 300k will buy you a lot of contracting. It might be possible to do what you want for less, which would expand y…

How is Google playing catch-up? Android is the clear market share leader, and is still accelerating. According to Google's most recent numbers, Android is shipping 300,000 devices …

Looking at Yegge's projects, I think NBL was just "javascript". The first big one was a rails clone on Rhino, which he talked about but never released ( http://www.youtube.com/watc…