There’s a fantastic thread on the JoS discussion board in which the original poster was considering leaving a career in programming for some other field. This spawned lots of comments (including from Joel himself) that touched on everything that it means to be a programmer (or not), working in corporate IT, and so on. This [...]
About 2 weeks ago I was thinking about the dual pricing issue in Ireland (whereby UK stores/brands markup their prices for the Irish market). There are many reasons given for this dual pricing (tax, wages, rent, transportation and most often, currency). It occurred to me that some of the major price differences can easily be [...]
I was a little surprised at the unceremoneous death of ‘I Want Sandy’ and ‘Stikkit’ last week. Twitter bought the parent company so that they could get the founder to work for them but this left the actual sites themselves abandoned. Since both were free sites there was no business model, no income, no incentive [...]
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