rottendevice's comments

Just curious: why do a lot people recommend only the white of the egg, and not the whole thing?

Hey man, the value of my Beanie Baby collection can only go up.

The US Dollar can be used to buy anything. Bitcoin can be used on like, a few dozen websites that support it.

Why the heck would you not use the dollar?

They lack the sense of urgency brought about by the working world.

Also known as making deadline.

The Dunning-Kruger effect explains why an arrogant boss I once had thought he knew how to program.

Good to know I'm not the only one making this website.

http://www.makethatthing.com/

(shameless self promotion, I know, but I wish Dave the best of luck with his site)

So, it's kind of like Twitter but with audio messages?

My birthday present!

It strikes me as kind of odd that the billboard says "We", implying that DuckDuckGo is a company of multiple people.

Then again, saying "I don't track you" would sound extremely strange.

I guess we (as a society) have become so accustomed to companies requiring large groups of people to be successful. I guess Gabe's ability to take on Google, the biggest tech company this decade, by himself, is a testament to computer programming being so empowering.

You could easily argue that about a hundred years of engineering have gone into computer science, and many, many more than that into mathematics and algorithms. And this is the stuff that Facebook is built off of.

Also, Audi is certainly not the only player in town when it comes to automobile makers. On the flip side, Facebook has hardly any serious competitors right now, and no one seems likely to catch up any time soon.

If we're using cars as an analogy, Facebook has basically created the Model T of online communications, and it will take a while before other car companies can come along and steal market share.

Wouldn't that sound like a sweet deal if you were an old and not-so-tech-savvy investor?

This is great news for the Appcelerator guys, but I've gotten so used to writing Titanium apps in TextMate, that I'm not sure I'd really need a dedicated IDE!

Still happy for the company though.

Same situation for me, which is why I much prefer to use Twitter these days. It's considered downright rude to defriend someone on Facebook, but on Twitter, you really only have to pay attention to the people you care about. It feels a lot more "opt-in" than Facebook in this way.

Also, I really don't care about people's virtual mafia's and pictures where everyone is obscenely drunk.

"Feel free to point me to a list of high quality in XNA produced titles."

If you want to develop a game on WP7, you HAVE to use XNA. All games in the WP7 app store had to be built with it.

Also, WP7 has no C++ support. John Carmack griped about this on Twitter.

I completely agree.

But this country loves extreme cases. The media tends to ignore the 40+ successful CEOs out there because it's not uncommon to see someone in that age group running a good business. But when Mark Zuckerberg became the world's youngest billionaire at age 23, everyone wanted to do an interview with him and sell a story around it.

Really, the reason everyone pays attention to Zuck is because he's the exception.

> This is why natural ability is such a hard thing for me to accept - I really believe that I can be good at anything, and I believe that is true of other people as well, but if they don't believe it, how will it happen?

To me, what you can do in life all comes down to a Henry Ford quote:

"Whether you believe you can, or you believe you can't, you're right."

gReader is a really solid 3rd party RSS reader, that I've grown completely accustomed to. I'm not sure I really need / want to switch to the official one now.

Heh. Makes me wonder if Kik enticed some BBM engineers to switch jobs.

Looks like it's pretty new. They're still calling it a "beta". Maybe the mobile apps are coming next?

Who would host the servers though? A standards organization? I doubt they could afford it.

That, or it will be like email, where everyone has @example.com appended to their username.

Neither situation strikes me as desirable.

I have been waiting my entire life for this to come out.*

(*Give or take a few dozen years)