darkchasma

Okay, this is stupid. I currently work on a team where I do all the development. We have another developer that really shouldn't be a developer, by because of unions and such, we can't get rid of him. I try to work with him as much as possible, but in two years, he hasn't produced any code that could possibly go into production. But he has a great attitude, and can at the very least be the cover off I need for vacation.

So, maybe I am an asshole, but I find it hard to use the term "we developed this", or "we wrote this" when he's effectively written none of the code. So in order to conform to the criteria set out here, I would be lying, and I also wouldn't be a passionate developer who cares about my contribution. So sure, you don't get assholes. But I'd rather have an asshole than an liar.

There are a million apps, and only 5 people that can 'win' the app store at any time. To say it's more difficult to rocket to the top is an inane and obvious observation. It has nothing to do with indie development, it's about the fact that there are 5 top spots for one million apps. By definition, 99.999995% aren't going to win, regardless of whether they are indie or not.

When is this ever not the case? It's harder to own land now than it was when the government was giving it away for free. That in no way makes it impossible to own land, and no one says stupid things like "Why people can't win the land grab in America".

Build a good product, it will sell. Build an innovative product that scratches the itch of millions and you get onto the top 5 list.

What I see far too often is developers passing off a derivative or poorly executed idea, and complaining that the marketplace is the problem. It's not.

The irony that the top developers started as indie developers for the most part, and simply grew their business with successful products seems to be lost on the author.

I don't know, but don't think so, that's the same difference between asynchronous and concurrent.

This is a little silly. As a developer, I love cutting code. I really don't care if I'm pair programming or not. I don't like to write tests nearly as much. If you swap in "write unit tests" in place of "pair programming", the article pretty much works the same, the one difference is the authors social anxiety.

So really, this isn't about pair programming, it's about the fact the the poster has social anxiety, and needs to address that. (And I need to stop posting on HN and write some tests).

Until we get out hands on the OS, so outside of idle speculation, we really don't have much to go on. Steams "Big Screen" is far from mainstream ready, so I doubt that we'll see a usable OS for some time.

So you're saying that people should never do anything unless it has an immediate useful result?

A grand per year, no thanks.

As a base for a well rounded developer, I would say to pick C# or Java and Ruby or Python, and C or Go. Learn javascript. Avoid PHP, even if you're starving.

6k for a 4K 20" tablet with a 2 hour battery that weighs over 5 lbs with only an i5 and 2GB vram? This isn't going to be the ultimate Civ 5 machine that I've been hoping for.

I've been impressed with Postgres, and still have a sour taste in my mouth over MySql's sale to Oracle. So why would I want to use MariaDB over Postgres? Is there a compelling reason to give it a look?

> Xbox is one of the major revenue earning division for MS

This isn't even remotely accurate. Xbox barely draws a profit in comparison to it's office, windows, and services groups.