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It's definitely difficult. As you lose momentum, it quickly diverges into another job and that can quickly lead to burnout or lack of motivation.

Well, I don't think they had a big stress on design, but they've managed to keep their culture and still keep the bar high. From what I understand, engineers are still king at Google and great ones have freer reign to work on interesting things

I'm very curious why, as a talented designer, would you want these contracts? I mean I understand that I'm sure there is plenty of potential to do something great and I'm sure large companies compensate very well, but don't the inanities of meetings that take forever deter you from wanting to work on these jobs?

I guess what I'm saying is that if I was a talented designer, I would want to work on things I enjoy, namely designing, and not having to deal with corporate bureaucracy. For every large corporate contract, there must be many more interesting projects out there. (or am I being a naive millenial? :)

The thing is is there doesn't seem to be any significant shift at AA. When Jobs came back, there was a changing of culture. With AA, nothing will really force them to change/adapt/make real changes if they can get away with what they're doing now.

link: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/07/tipjoycoypossible.html

I posted this on the post, but does anyone else think he was looking for some sort of 15 mins of fame?

Emailing the press with other peoples' email addresses without notifying Facebook first seems like it was the wrong thing to do. I'm sure Facebook would've liked to fix it before the press (and spammers) got to it.

Seems like he wanted to guarantee that his name would be in some newspapers

If they have other finances (mortgage, loans, kids to raise, etc), just getting a paycheck is all you can do.

Definitely! They deserve it, works better than any of the other solutions I've tried

How is this news?

Just because it's older doesn't mean that it should be the standard.

"Standards organizations" are there for a reason, so that issues like this wouldn't be so egregrious. Microsoft has had a while to fix it, and 8 years later far too many people are still using an old deprecated browser.

My problem with this article and this approach to "saving the economy" make little sense to me. While I believe startups and entrepreneurs who are starting now will lead the next wave of great companies, I don't think giving them money now will yield immediate results that we seem to need.

Yes, startups are strapped for cash, but even if you give them money, it doesn't mean job creation like the tagline of the article says. Growth and job creation won't be significant until the company is more established.

Secondly, most startups want to stay small, not because of lack of capital, but because they can be adaptive and nimble. Again, until the company matures, growing tthe company != growing the employee head count

I feel like instead of smaller startups, there should be something similar for small business. They won't have to go through the hardships of establishing the company and hopefully they'll already be profitable, etc. that a startup won't have/

Well, I think there's a distinction. He's saying people a bad apples are people who are skeptics, unmotivated, etc. but do not suggest anything better.

If they're skeptical of your idea or whatever, they should add constructive input instead of dragging on everyones spirits.

I feel like thats a common misconception. It certainly not every single thought of mine, and very little substance even. It's nice because the whole system is async, so you can get to it when you can, if you want, care or not care. the barrier to tweet is non existent :)

I think it's good; it shows foresight, even if it is running out of cash.

I think they can get some money by providing premium APIs to access their quality content.

Anyone else find the upward inflection in his speech to be annoying?

theres always this: http://midtownlunch.com/blog/restaurant-index/

i feel like it makes easy things easy (for "inexperienced computer users") and the hard things ("hacking") possible!

Yeah, for us, sshfs, or even rsync is great for our uses. But what about the regular people who wanted online backup and sync across multiple devices?

just curious, why is that?

where? i can't seem to find it

What does even mean?

This is very neat. Makes a lot of sense to me.

However, I think better commenting systems are the real problem here, instead of hacking current ones. The "threaded" conversations in this post are very cool, but disqus threaded comments are much more intuitive.

And instead of making just a blockquote, and referring back, github-type line commenting would be awesome.

The model of post then comments is kind of counter intuitive in terms of real discussion.

Agreed. They all seem like pretty logical upgrades for most of the things.

An 8 hr battery on 17" device is pretty cool

They always inflate this number and I wouldn't be surprise if it loses its charge quickly like most other macs. plus, integrated battery? no thanks.

No-DRM was more of a 'Finally!' than a 'Wow!'

Don't get me wrong, they're newsworthy, but I feel like there was no climax. nothing too surprising

I agree too. It really comes down to what helps you the most and what the best tool for the job is for you.

I've seen people use Eclipse for Perl, which make very little sense to me. Sure, you can use it, but personally I'm at least 10x - 15x more productive if I use vi.

But for Java, Eclipse is awesome. The ability to find what methods are available and other great tools Eclipse provides blows a lot plugins/extensions out of the water.

There is no one editor to the rule them all... :)

You should post this one their feedback page. I'm not behind this site :)

From the business perspective, what's the advantage? If you sell a product once, I feel like it becomes more difficult to have people pay for an upgrade. If you spend a lot of time developing updates and improvements upon your product, I feel like you'll find fewer and fewer people willing to pay for them because whatever they have "works fine".

I feel like their cashcow is Basecamp and people would be hard pressed to ditch their project management app

While true, I imagine a lot of small businesses who use 37signals won't have a dedicated IT staff to manage and maintain an instance of XYZ project manager. Having 37signals handle all the 'techy' stuff and having them as support must be cheaper than hiring someone to maintain it.

Yeah, I don't know that oDesk trends is a good indicator. Plus, I have a weird feeling that people who post jobs on there aren't really tech savvy and know so far as BUZZWORD1 BUZZWORD2, etc

Somehow they all find jobs at Scientific American