darkchasma

Okay, this is stupid. I currently work on a team where I do all the development. We have another developer that really shouldn't be a developer, by because of unions and such, we can't get rid of him. I try to work with him as much as possible, but in two years, he hasn't produced any code that could possibly go into production. But he has a great attitude, and can at the very least be the cover off I need for vacation.

So, maybe I am an asshole, but I find it hard to use the term "we developed this", or "we wrote this" when he's effectively written none of the code. So in order to conform to the criteria set out here, I would be lying, and I also wouldn't be a passionate developer who cares about my contribution. So sure, you don't get assholes. But I'd rather have an asshole than an liar.

There are a million apps, and only 5 people that can 'win' the app store at any time. To say it's more difficult to rocket to the top is an inane and obvious observation. It has nothing to do with indie development, it's about the fact that there are 5 top spots for one million apps. By definition, 99.999995% aren't going to win, regardless of whether they are indie or not.

When is this ever not the case? It's harder to own land now than it was when the government was giving it away for free. That in no way makes it impossible to own land, and no one says stupid things like "Why people can't win the land grab in America".

Build a good product, it will sell. Build an innovative product that scratches the itch of millions and you get onto the top 5 list.

What I see far too often is developers passing off a derivative or poorly executed idea, and complaining that the marketplace is the problem. It's not.

The irony that the top developers started as indie developers for the most part, and simply grew their business with successful products seems to be lost on the author.

I don't know, but don't think so, that's the same difference between asynchronous and concurrent.

This is a little silly. As a developer, I love cutting code. I really don't care if I'm pair programming or not. I don't like to write tests nearly as much. If you swap in "write unit tests" in place of "pair programming", the article pretty much works the same, the one difference is the authors social anxiety.

So really, this isn't about pair programming, it's about the fact the the poster has social anxiety, and needs to address that. (And I need to stop posting on HN and write some tests).

Until we get out hands on the OS, so outside of idle speculation, we really don't have much to go on. Steams "Big Screen" is far from mainstream ready, so I doubt that we'll see a usable OS for some time.

So you're saying that people should never do anything unless it has an immediate useful result?

A grand per year, no thanks.

As a base for a well rounded developer, I would say to pick C# or Java and Ruby or Python, and C or Go. Learn javascript. Avoid PHP, even if you're starving.

6k for a 4K 20" tablet with a 2 hour battery that weighs over 5 lbs with only an i5 and 2GB vram? This isn't going to be the ultimate Civ 5 machine that I've been hoping for.

I've been impressed with Postgres, and still have a sour taste in my mouth over MySql's sale to Oracle. So why would I want to use MariaDB over Postgres? Is there a compelling reason to give it a look?

> Xbox is one of the major revenue earning division for MS

This isn't even remotely accurate. Xbox barely draws a profit in comparison to it's office, windows, and services groups.

Tesla, Apple, Google, etc... They're sexy, and in the public mind, so they drive traffic. Media used to be about information, but now it's about clicks and link bait.

My thought exactly, what's the problem here. It would have taken less time to add it and resubmit than to whine on a blog post.

But I don't like Bach. I'm supposed to listen to what you think I should like, because you think Bach is better? Who gets to decide?

The terms arrogance and pretense were used for a reason.

I agree that this is what should happen, though I suspect that you'll be disappointed in the result.

I hate the arrogance and pretence of this site as a concept. I'm far more productive than pretty much anyone I know, but I also need downtime to recharge.

I can't believe you guys are debating the correct HTTP return code for a joke service? Besides, it's obviously 200.

No, it shouldn't. Although the death of a celebrity is interesting, it's not deeply interesting. However, some celebrities like Lou Reed, are deeply interesting. And it's not until their death that we generally discuss or think about how deeply interesting they were.

Hacker news, as far as I understand it, is not tech news. Other sites have that covered. This is the discussion of ideas.

You took the cooking analogy too far. Programming a hello world app isn't any better for you than writing the great american novel.

I care. Aesthetics is important to me, and when presented with two comparable solutions, one ugly option and a pretty option, I'll most likely go for the pretty solution.

Silly man, that wouldn't require $50,000.

I'm guessing that if you're banned from flagging, then the political posts weren't inappropriate, but your behaviour was.

What fad diets are you referring to?

That doesn't seem right, that's a better chance that dying in a fire.

Since it'll take over 20 years to go from perl 5 to perl 6, I'm sure they're safe using 11.

I support the cause, as I believe all people should have the right to privacy. However, I'm not American, and we have our own battles. Increasing awareness and visibility however, is something we all can do.

I love this, I just wish there was a way to have the font in something more readable for the areas that aren't positional format sensitive. For some reason, I can read monospaced fonts for code perfectly, but when it comes to text, I have difficulty reading it.