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That is a good point, but is it really worth it for a bunch of strangers to debate the issue based on a blog post? I don't understand what anyone has to gain by examining his personal psychological makeup.

Whether or not any of the companies you mentioned (or other vc companies) have made the world better is irrelevant to the question of "Why did Alex react as he did to Justin and Amy's articles?"

Alex provides enough information about his beliefs and about why he thinks those articles conflict with them that I, at least, trust he knows why he reacted the way he did.

What is the point of questioning his level of self-awareness anyway? How does it further the conversation? Really, I don't understand the point of maxklein's comment.

First, he takes issue with the phrase "vocal minority". OK, mISV people are either in the minority or the majority. Why does that matter either way?

Then he ignores the major premise of the article (which I find interesting), and instead psychologizes Alex from behind his computer. What's the point?

The main issue which Alex brings up is far more interesting. What should we value more, personal happiness or improving as many as lives as possible? What organizational structures are most suited to these different goals? Are these goals mutually exclusive, as Alex seems to assume they are?

I don't know, I think the article was off-putting to Alex for the reason that he states: it focuses on achieving personal happiness rather than improving the lives of as many people as possible.

Django was originally created by programmers working for a newspaper in order to serve the needs of the newspaper: http://notesofgenius.com/django-web-framework/

I think this is great. My first impression, though, was that the name "g0atbutt" does not inspire confidence. Just my 2 cents.

Is anyone on Forrst? Their service looks like something I woudl like. On the technology end, it looks easy to post images and code for the purpose of discussion, and that would make my life a little easier. The community looks like one I'd like to be a part of, too.

On the other hand, I'm currently re-working my own blog and am really enjoying designing the front end and tooling the backend to fit my needs precisely. It's a labor of love and I don't want to let it languish.

If you've used forrst, what do you like about it? What don't you like?

It's fairly juvenile of me to feel this way, but I was pretty amused to see this in his footer:

"Did you know you can write your own about section just like this one? It's really easy. Head into the the Titan Options menu and check out the footer section. Type some stuff in the box, click save, and your new about section shows up in the footer.

Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right?

We didn't take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag 'nature'. All rights are reserved to the original copyright holders where applicable."

Using an off-the-shelf wordpress theme in service of protesting an off-the-shelf life. And at the same time randomly sampling other people's actual creative work.

Try the "start" arrow at the top

The main advantage of my config format is that it takes a css-selector-style approach to determining the final configuration. This makes it much easier to create config file with complicated conditions and to understand it.

Tonight I finally extracted this from a project I'm working on.

I'm not really sure how to describe what it does. In the readme I have "Higml is a terse format for converting an input hash to an output hash." If anyone could take a look and tell me what you think of the project I'd appreciate it. Is the documentation helpful? Is it clear when "higml" would be useful?

Thanks

ipod touch. I've seen/heard it referred to as iTouch numerous times.

I found that Aaron Hillegass's book was decent enough as a tutorial, but halfway through it left me feeling like it raised too many questions without answering them. I was making toy apps but I didn't know what the hell was going on. Just my two cents.

I wrote this app because I was always forgetting things I needed to talk about during daily standups. I'd love any feedback on it. The name needs improvement, as people who would find it useful won't always know what a standup meeting is. It'd also be nice to charge for it. I'm thinking something like $10 for life. In the mean time maybe I'll put up a donate button.

It was first written using just jquery, but after I saw a couple articles on backbone.js here I rewrote it. Man, backbone.js made it way, way easier to deal with.

Did those ever ship?

My honest impression was that you must not be very good at what you do if you can make something as basic as reading your site so frustrating. Then when I came back here and read that you have to mouse over the text to read it, my first thought was "why would someone who advertises does iOS work make their site impossible to read on an iOS device?"

I did eventually go through and check out your 3 degrees of wikipedia app, and thought it was very impressive.

test account credentials: test@standupbuddy.com / test123

During my daily standups I often can't remember everything I'd worked on the previous day, and sometimes I forget to ask questions that need asking. I made this tool to keep track of what I do as I do it and write down any questions I have.

Any feedback would be helpful.

The statement could be interpreted to mean that Apple has failed at providing cloud computing experiences. Either way the result is the same: if I want to sync via the cloud with Apple then it's a pretty crappy experience.

Also note the code "4cast" gets you 50% off any ebook

A couple years ago I made a site to stay organized when looking for a job, http://www.happyjobsearch.com/ . I made it after I got laid off for the second time in 3 months. I needed an efficient, systematic approach to looking at job listings and keeping track of what I needed to do for each opportunity. It's like GTD but just for job hunting.

It's free and it's quick to sign up. So I hope no one minds my posting it here. I know how much it sucks to be jobless and looking for work, so this site is my little helping hand to anyone in that position.

It's lighter and smaller. This makes it easier to carry around and less of a strain on my hands to use. It probably comes down to personal preference, though.

One thing about the iPad that really turned me off was that I tried to read it in direct sunlight and it was hard to see. It also overheated, so I had to turn it off. Real bummer for me, as I love reading out on my deck while I get some sun.

I have a commute that takes an hour each way on average. Some audiobooks I've enjoyed:

* I Drink For a Reason - very funny

* Stumbling on Happiness (sounds self helpy but is actually a great book on our inability to predict how we will feel about situations in the future)

* A Brief History of Everything - one cool story after another

* A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - hard to bear, but eye-opening

* Getting Unstuck - buddhist talk by Pema Chodron

* Born to Run - great, exciting story. Sometimes I would sit in the parking lot or the driveway after arriving in order to keep listening.

also check out http://communityengine.org/ as an good, open-source alternative to lovdbyless.

Nintendo's doing pretty well, and the DS and Wii can be considered innovative. I don't think their games aren't software in the way that you mean, but they've broken new ground there many times, too.

Was "grammar" intentionally misspelled?

I thought the other reason for the variety of colors and sizes was that it made it easier for visual impairments to handle money. It would indeed be nice, though, if US currency became more usable while remaining unique.

Reminds me of the line in Catcher in the Rye where Holden says that if he could play the piano as well as... some guy was currently playing piano, he would play it in the closet.

I moved August of last year, and got my current job in October (after my main client, a startup owner, just up and stopped paying me.) I don't want to move again for maybe another year. There are other personal factors involved.

Other reasons to stay put are that my current living place is of really high quality for the price. I live in a very beautiful area very close to beaches, which I means a lot to me. I also have a great landlord that I consider a friend.

The cul-de-sac I live on is pretty close-knit, which is pretty rare and which I appreciate a lot. A lot of the people who live on the street (or within visual range) are relatives. A month after my girlfriend and I moved in, we got invited to their family reunion by the... 'patriarch' of the family, and we had a good time with them. That level of friendliness and familiarity really does a lot for me.

Below is my personal experience with different job situations:

Between 17 and 20 I never travelled more than a few miles for work. I worked as a server at a resort ($14/hr), as a night auditor at hotel where I had 1 hour of work to do and 8 hours to do it ($8.25/hr) and as an entry-level web developer ($10-15/hr). All of the jobs paid more than I needed and I had ample free time.

The main drawback for these jobs was that I wasn't treated as well as I wanted. With one of the web companies, I happened to see a recent hire's check and saw that he made more than me. I asked the owner why this person made more than me when I had more experience, and her answer was that I made a lot for my age and that the other person had a degree.

From 20-24 years of age I worked as a freelancer, starting at $25/hr and going to $90/hr, billing about 30 hours a week and working about 50. I always worked remotely, and for a year during this period I lived in Hawaii.

The perks of working from home are many. I always lived near the beach and could take beach breaks during the middle of the day. I had a lot more time because I had no commute at all. The main drawback was that I didn't have enough social interaction. I'm still discovering what a huge, negative effect this has had on my life.

These days I make $100/hr, 40 hours a week, and I commute between an hour and half and two hours every day, depending on traffic. I listen to audiobooks on the ride in, but going home they make me too sleepy. Because of the audiobooks, I don't mind the commute as much as I would otherwise. I feel like I learn valuable things during my time in the car.

Also, because I earn more and bill for more hours, I make about twice as much as I did previously. This year I'm planning on traveling around the world, something I've never been able to do. I've also been able to afford a lot of little niceties like improv lessons and snowboarding lessons. I'm very glad that I'm able to buy these experiences.

I'm also trying to make friends with the people I work with. I already consider my immediate colleagues to be good friends and great people, and it makes me very happy to know them and see them every day.

The long-ass commute does get me down sometimes. I'm still trying to figure out how to make more time for my personal projects. With the amount of money I'm making, though, it's feasible that I'll be able to take little vacations just to work on my ideas, something which wasn't possible before. So overall, the long commute is definitely worth it.

For the past few months I've been very interested in figuring out how to communicate programming ideas well. My friend Pat put together a great way to show what happens to some Ruby code as it's evaluated, and I put together this plugin to make it easier to do what he did.

In the introduction, which I've linked to, I've tried to explain what the plugin does, how it's useful, and the basics of how to use it. I'd love any feedback on the code or on my attempt to explain it. Thanks!

Thank you for your response!