newishuser

Totally fair. Next time, this should be your comment instead of just non constructively pooping on someone else's project.

This is discussion worthy, your original comment is just smug.

I feel like you're more concerned with making sure people understand where they sit on the totem pole than encouraging progress or exciting developers. While learning from history is certainly paramount in software development, raw experimentation, naive excitement, and continuing in the face of nay-sayers is what pushes all industries forward.

People are allowed to make mistakes, tons of them, and the software industry is one of the best industries to make mistakes in. You get quality feedback almost instantly and can fail faster than anywhere else. No one is claiming that "detailed knowledge of old things" is on it's way out. We are engulfed in systems and code that are decades old. I don't see the point in nay-saying.

Yeah, your right, MongoHQ hasn't brought anything positive to web development and there's no way they're going to make a business supporting their db. It definitely needs to be put in it's place and we should all take the time to talk about just how cool we are for predicting it's downfall. If only the whole world had enough insight to just stop before they tried to do something awesome. After all, someone may have tried it before.

Firing would have been a deliberate attempt on EA's part to tarnish his career. Stepping down is the nice corporate way of saying "You're a great guy but things just aren't working out."

That's what makes it a clusterfuck. If they had sold just 10 copies in would have been a loosely associated fuck.

I think you mean any attempt to say he got push out solely because of the SimCity fiasco... It's perfectly reasonable to wonder as to whether or not the SimCity launch had an effect on his position at EA.

No company is legally allowed to compete for business with the USPS. In order to deliver letters, other companies must by law be providing premium services that the USPS either doesn't provide or aren't it's core business. UPS must charge you significantly more to deliver your letter in order to stay out of the USPS' market.

Exactly, I've been 15 times for this very reason and still can't figure it out.

I'm probably in the minority here, but I've actually never used a single one of those services.

If you want to speak up, don't hesitate to contact LayerVault's support ( [email protected] ) and let them know, respectfully, how you feel. You can also tweet your opinions @layervault.

I stress respectfully. Try to be well spoken and sincere.

You can't copyright a color pallet. You can't copyright an icon concept.

Sending DMCA take-downs without full intent to prosecute and full conviction that your copyrights have been violated is not only illegal but shameful.

Don't give up! Ember has a steep learning curve but once you've got a bunch of it memorized development gets much easier.

This is one of those obvious to some, and eye opening to others things. I had always wondered why other countries keep their eggs unrefrigerated and we Americans have always been very thoroughly warned about the dangers of room temperature eggs.

I always figured it was a matter of cultural tradition and that eggs weren't really as sensitive as I've been told. I had no idea there was so much process and science behind it.

This kind of fits as a rough analogy for software. Consumers may see eggs in either market as just eggs. Maybe they have a slight different taste, maybe some are kept in a fridge, but they're still plain, simple, safe eggs. Getting to that point of consumption though is a choreography of processes that has no "right way" and is more complex than the average consumer wants or needs to know.