bhughes

The reason why people don't use Windows Phone is because they don't want to.

It's easy to say in a place like HN that there is a "social stigma" around using Windows, but for the average consumer this is clearly not the case. For a lot of typical desktop users, Windows is the computer ("reboot your Windows", "start up Windows", etc). Microsoft simply couldn't find a way to leverage that in the mobile space.

I don't know if it is a question of whether they are in or out of fashion. Some people can pull off pleats, but when they don't look good, they really don't look good. If someone is reading this primer, they are probably not in a position to tell which is which.

My standard answer to this, assuming I am starting out with a normal job-posting's worth of information, is "I don't know that I do want to work at X yet. That's one of the things I hope to figure out in this process." Said nicely, of course.

People forget that an interview is a dialog between two parties. As a candidate I am not trying to "win" by getting an offer; I am trying to find out if this is a place I actually want to work.

Except that prejudices aren't always developed so much as taught/learned. The standard trope that "the young folk get technology" is accepted as axiomatic, and passed down, regardless of actual experience.

Based on experience, I would agree with you on the Magento front (as my perpetually-in-the-planning-stages blog "I Hate Magento" will attest), but I have yet to find anything more usable (and customizable) for larger scale operations. I know there must be something less bad. Thoughts, anyone?

I seem to remember something like that as well.

However, writing down for your own benefit != telling someone else.

Is there something along these lines that has data for multiple open source projects? I think a lot of folks (myself included) would benefit from something that could provide some guidance, rather than randomly clicking around Github.

Did you actually read the article?

She's wasn't upset that there was less bathroom capacity for women, but rather that this illustrated the (in her view) woefully meager representation of women at the conference.

Not necessarily. It's possible that with a lower minimum wage, Canada's unemployment rate might be even lower. The best you can hypothesize is that all things being equal minimum wage does/does not negatively affect unemployment numbers. Obviously the economies of Canada and the US are vastly different.

At the same time it has received a ton of press up-front, in exactly the circles early adopters of the service would frequent. I think there is a feeling (right or wrong) that if the problems App.net purports to solve were really as bad as claimed, people would have been jumping on in droves, at least to give it a good spin around the block.

>>Suits are uncomfortable...

This tells me you've probably never worn a really well-fitting suit. I don't mean this to sound smug. I agree that for the work environment of the average coder, they are likely out of place.

If you're hiring the right people, you shouldn't need a formalized rule that says "don't steal people's lunch from the fridge" (an example given).

Visiting the home page gives the impression of someone's not-quite-technical mother trying to "do a meme."

I can't remember if I've heard Amy reference Steven Pressfield, but there are definitely strains of (the excellent and go-read-it-right-now) The War of Art to be found here.

This has got to stop. I don't know if the rewriting is getting especially bad lately, or if it's just happening more to the articles I'm reading.

He's already altered the page title to "It's playtime - Light Table Playground released"...can we at least get someone to include the subtitle on HN?

What? Bully? That word is getting tossed around a lot these days, and it seems in danger of losing its meaning (or, like "fascist" meaning "someone who thinks or does something I don't like"). There was no "bully" in this story. There was just some guy who loved to hear himself talk, and wanted everyone to think he was smart.