haseman

In our software office of 14, 4 do not play a musical instrument

Go to the gym every morning. Ride a bike, get active. For some reason an 8-10 hour day in a chair is nearly unbearable unless I've done some sort of activity in the mornings. It may be a low risk thing to try.

In theory I agree with you. Censorship is not good. What I guess we disagreeing over is the 'level' of bad. Torture or murder is evil, censorship, in this case, is just silly and clearly a mistake. (As they've now reversed their stance)

Even so, Censorship is a tool, it isn't inherently evil just as guns or knives aren't inherently evil. But they can easily be put to an 'evil' use. Apple's approval process isn't evil, it's just frustrating. Take it from someone who's dealt with MUCH worse from AT&T and Verizon.

Evil might be a bit strong of a word for such a simple misunderstanding. The tendency to go for extremes in debate is well known, but it tends to destroy any ability to talk about the problem. In reality, AT&T is probably calling some of the shots on Apple's censorship rules. In any-case, censorship of age-old sexual how-to books strikes me as silly, but certainly not evil.

It does mean you can't complain (or risk sounding like a whiny teenager) It doesn't mean you can't offer constructive criticism or take your business elsewhere.

not as smooth, elegant, or intuitive as basecamp. It could just be that I'm biased because I've been using basecamp for the past 2 years.

Sadly, having been in the mobile industry for the past 6 years, Apple treats its developers much better than any of the previous stores have. This isn't to say that this kind of behavior is right, it just helps to have a little perspective.

There really isn't much I can think of offhand. It tracks hours. It might be nice if it were easier to enter notes in the 'week' entry screen. Other than that, it's a great product.

Our small dev house uses Harvest: http://www.getharvest.com/

It's simple, straightforward, and has a metric ton of ways to enter hours into the system. It doesn't have all the things you're looking for, but it does well for all our vacation/hour/billing/tracking needs.

Bruce Sterling seems to have confused his concepts of "Rich" and "Old" Old people dislike connections, hide in private gardens. There are plenty of "Rich" people who live to sip from the firehose that is the internet...

Your QA guy (if you're lucky enough to have one) is you best friend in whole wide world. When he/she finds bugs in your code...hug them and buy them beer, because your users/clients could have found them instead.

I hate to suggest this, but I've had friends who've had a lot of luck with coughLinked Incough put you email address somewhere easy to read so potential leads do have to jump through any hoops when trying to contact you.

Maybe, deep down inside, every programmer here has an obsession with Erlang...and just needs an excuse to submit/promote articles about it.