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Bookface seems interesting. Any more info on that?

I thought that was a privateer.

I can't complain. Admittedly, I think it's a little thin on the ground at the moment (I'm in Adelaide). What's your focus?

Had a look, and yes, that's not an easy problem to solve. Good luck with it.

All those functions can be performed without the manager needing to be higher up in the organisational hierarchy.

I just had to deal with someone like this for six months - he always interrupted people, always thought he knew everything, was a terrible coder but thought he was great. However, he stressed multiple times that he never regarded himself as better than everyone else. His actions said otherwise, and pissed off the team (especially me).

You might be an egomaniac, or you might not. It's impossible to tell from one comment, because you've only mentioned a subset of the behaviours, and egomaniacs don't always have the self-awareness to judge their own behaviour.

If you listen and engage with your peers about programming, and not just dismiss everyone else's opinion outright, then you're probably not an egomaniac.

Expected by whom, exactly? The targets of Linus' ire aren't his colleagues, they're developers with unfounded opinions and more often than not, little experience with the kernel. If someone publicly stated:

"Why did you use C for the kernel? You should've used C++.",

I'd probably call them a moron too.

The classic Linus tirades I've read are the result of the person he's addressing, who knows less about the project at hand, not accepting his reason for a particular decision he's made and continuing to press the issue.

If you poke the bear, expect to get mauled.

Yeah, you can take away everything you've learnt from it (which in itself is a valuable thing) but you're unlikely to get the business in a form that's worth the trouble.

It's amazing how as humans we cling to the slightest thread of hope.

Although I was a programmer before I became a designer (and still am), I've also found that graphic design (typography in particular), has positively affected how I compose functions and methods. It first started with the how I laid out my statements, then progressed eventually to size and how they were arranged.

I argue with my colleague a lot about whitespace (he likes to get rid of all of it); sometimes I wish I'd done a Ph. D. on the effect on typography on programming just to win the argument.

As someone who has never touched any of this stuff before, where might I actually find it useful in my day-to-day programming (assuming I might have an application where it would be useful)?

The state of IT in Australia is horrendous. My colleague and I are flabbergasted at the state of programming round here (Adelaide).

What's the advantage of Perforce (I don't know as I've never used it before)?

It's both.

Nobody's forcing you to do it. Anyone who decides to take up such a mantle is going to face obstacles, and the journey will be unique for each person. Some will have it easier than others.

If a person thinks it's onerous before they've even started because they don't have x, then I doubt they're cut out for entrepreneurship anyhow.

Something that people miss, is that entrepreneurship is not a playing field where score is determined by what one cannot choose, it's an unforgiving mountain we're all trying to scale - there are infinite paths to the summit. What appear to be obvious advantages at the beginning of the journey end up being disadvantages in the middle. What one lacks in money and family connections can be often be balanced with grit and perseverance. Remember what you bring to the table.

Being an entrepreneur isn't an imposition.

Kriegsmarine was (I think) the name for the German navy. U-boats were essentially submarines. Tonnage was the proportion of weight of the boats sunk. The "rest of them" refers to the rest of the U-boat captains.

This refers to Paypass/Paywave, where you tap the card on the machine without having to use your PIN, but it's only for purchases $100 or less.

Come to Australia. We got rid of most the guns.

I think it's more that cortisol (stress hormone) inhibits weight loss, and its at higher levels when you don't get enough sleep.

Share schemes are about to change I believe.

I've always felt that Kevin Rose was the Damien Lindelof of Silicon Valley. Not that I know what it's like to be either, but I feel like everything they do ends up getting finished by someone else.

Fire animation is the new blink.

Indeed, the mistake that gets made (and I've made enough times) is to think that any kind of restructuring of code is required to be done in a gigantic monolith.

I imagine it has parallels with README-driven development too.

"Do I have to maintain it?"

I'm not sure if the different desktop versions have feature parity - from what I've seen of Spotify's development process, each platform is handled by a different team.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the album view, and how is it different to what's currently in the app (as there seems to be something that I'd consider to be an album view for OS X)?

As for the rest of your points, you are on the money; seems to be a lack of commonsense.

Curious to know what you find obnoxious about their desktop UI (Mac or Windows?).

I call the opposite of the Midas touch the Romero touch myself.

In Australia, we have "yeah nah yeah", which is a similar phenomenon. I have no idea where it originated. I think "nah yeah nah" may also be prevalent.

As you put it, validation requires that you ask the right questions, which is half the ball game.