As engaging and controversial this topic is. I don't think is a theme that should be listed in Slashdot. There are many other sites and forums where this discussion is taking place and I bet they don't involve technology or relevant information for "Nerds".

The best telecommuting that I've seen is to have all team members connected on messenger/chat. Questions and notices are pop immediately on the screen, obviously hoping for very quick response. For more deep conversation a cam to cam chat was initiated and I think now is possible to make a group video chat. Funny thing is this is used also in the same office building.

Feature integration is always a pain because the developer working on it does not accommodate the rest of the team working on the trunk. Instead of documenting, informing the team of what changed, validating parameters and processing exceptions it is the rest of the team that have to accommodate HIM/HER like if they were royalty! These devs have to understand that half of the work on these features is the integration effort needed to prevent breaking the code already checked in.

If it will hurt my beloved pet ears then no thanks.

I bet you AC that Apple will include an SD or USB port in their next wave of new products.

I call BS on that. Exposing external file storage to generations prior to the menials "might" confuse them but it's perfectly reasonable to think that I can TRANSFER my file (movie, document, picture) THROUGH my external device such as an SD card or USB to another device to read it.

Well said. They are trying to reach Apple's sales without innovating (just waiting to see what works to copy it) and not worrying about the brand's reputation. If there is anything useful to learn from marketing is that they distinguish the value of a brand and can guesstimate their demand. For me the Microsoft brand sits at the same level as toothpaste or toilet paper, it sells a commodity that you need to fulfill a need.

Amen to that.

+1 This is what has worked better for me. Dive for the negative reviews first!

Proportionally, Windows Phone's growth cannot compare to the slowest growth of Android or iPhone. They are late to the party and they are all fighting hard to steal each others piece of the pie.

Ironic that a tech company "leader" doesn't have a policy for this.

Agreed +1 Total waste of time

Agreed, I guess your mileage may vary. Haven't experienced any lag on Eclipse. But then again I don't tempt fate and try not to run many things at the same time otherwise I experience Windows memory swapping.

+1 Agreed, developers should know what tools are best (if they are able to choose) for the task at hand. Jeff Cogswell is naive or a troll.

Try getting a decent dev box next time newbie.