postblogism

I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm just saying it it's very uncommon for customers to blindly think of software as something to pay for.

Congratulations, you are in the extreme minority. But the truth is that this isn't normal, and I'd like us put our collective brains together and see what we can do to fix it.

Were you building for the enterprise? How many connections did you have? How much of an existing customer base / following did you have? These things matter in the minority of cases where customers pay for software as easily as coffee.

While there are all kinds of tests and ways to measure a developer's ability, most of these are outdated and were more appropriate 15 years ago prior to mass framework adoption - developers now just aren't going to spend a lot of time doing low level algorithms, because they don't need to.

But the best way that I've come across is to judge character traits. Intelligent people always have listening as a core component, where as less intelligent people will be very dismissive and constantly interrupt people. These are traits you can definitely sift out in interviews.

It's our company blog, but I didn't hold back in calling out the problems

Let's come to a truce. When managers start listening, we'll stop saying those things. Wow, add that to the list of things that "we" say.

no, it's confirmed now that he's just crazy. Dude, get an objective bone in your body, otherwise you're just a crusader.

Not everyone cares about whatever is going on in antitrust, but if you're not objective, you have no argument.

Facebook, Facebook, Facebook. Don't listen to the haters. Nothing even comes close to the level of marketing Facebook can give you to your target audience...and it's cheap! Enough said

That sounds like batching to me. It's early days in the multitasking revolt, but I define batching as having "finished" a task. If a FOR loop is one of those tasks and you finish that before emailing a client or something, then that's batching.

BTW sorry for being slow on replying, I'm just starting to get into this hacker news thing ;)

"a lovely group of third place finishers even with a ton of consensus will never outperform one genius"

...providing that genius is a Leader and not a Cowboy.

A cocktail party is full of pretentiousness, and nobody there has anything of value to say. If this is HN, then take me back to the dive bar full of real people thank you...