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There are infinitely many addition problems involving two numbers, and that's a subset of the set of problems that the article claims to be smaller.

Funny you should criticize the postfix community for this. Did you see what they are responding to?

Source control (SCM/VCS) is a MUST have. It's unbelievable that people just work with tarballs without proper source control. It doesn't matter which you use, but it must be available. Sending patches over email is what people did last century...

I think the "kids these days" comment was in reference to someone waltzing in, contributing nothing, and demanding everything immediately be done their way.

I'd bet the Dropbox team is aware of unladen swallow and the issues it faced.

Applied too broadly, that quote would mean "never try anything where others have failed."

Or he just likes attention and knows how to get it.

That isn't my premise. I mean 'paperwork' in the 'burden' sense, not as in physical pieces of paper. However, the extra layer of bureaucracy added paperwork in the 'burden' sense.

I don't know why you need to turn this into a personal attack, but you are dead wrong in everything you assert about my beliefs and experience.

By paperwork, I meant the work burden... and we spent a lot of time getting approvals for small scale data collection efforts.

Maybe you have gone through the process. But I have, and it was a headache.

I briefly worked for the Federal Government, and I recall an immense amount of paperwork being generated by the regulations of the "Paperwork Reduction Act."

And most customers will understand the need to raise prices once every nine years.

I would take notice if someone made a dropbox with a valuable additional feature, or a dropbox that worked better (recognizing that already dropbox works very smoothly).

But price seems like a nonstarter.

If the Gates Foundation money managers think holding Coca-Cola stock will help fund their fight against the disease, that seems like an extremely easy call.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22305225

This assumes that wealth is a zero-sum game, so it can be traded around but not created.

It's hard to reconcile that view with the fact that standards-of-living have been growing, more or less worldwide , for the two centuries.

With some exceptions, it's less dangerous when a novice programmer writes ugly code than when a pilot crashes a plane.

So we shouldn't require as much caution around letting people program as we do in letting them fly an airplane.

As it stands, it's just proof of the Greater Internet F-wad Theory [1].

[1] http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

The law states that orders must be shipped within the time stated by the company, and there is a default of 30 days if no other shipping estimate is given. In this case, Coin clearly and conspicuously states that they will ship in the Summer of 2014.

If they fail to ship by that time, they are required to offer purchasers a refund. However, the law clearly states that the company can set their shipping timeline, so long as they make the company aware of it.

I found this book especially insightful.

I wonder whether this book is less accurate than average, or whether this review is finding only the typical level of inaccuracy.

This article would more appropriately be called a "rambling" than a "review"