I think we're at the point we can agree that DIALING a cell phone or looking at a phone screen is dangerous. We've all had near misses ( or worse ). I think the NTSB is overreaching on an outright ban, but I like the direction it's taking. Talking on a phone is no worse than talking to someone in the passenger seat. Using voice activated dialing systems in a car seems like a reasonable line to me.

Suckers are going to spend $25 on a mount that will flood the AH. What costs 20K gold on Saturday will be 2K gold the following week. If you don't already have 2K gold on your toon, then you're doing it wrong. What worries me is Blizz moving this model over to gear. When that happens, I am out.

Your job (should be) to define requirements, manage the roadmap, talk to customers/prospects and prep the product marketing and sales functions. Coding is not part of your job. If you want it to be, then you need to re-think your career path. Not to say being a coder is bad, it's just that you cannot be both and be successful at it. Choose wisely.

.....reading Slashdot and having a life is generally mutually exclusive! That said, studying "other things" is a good idea to provide context and balance to your life (i.e. have a life ). To paraphrase, all programming and no other interests makes Jack a dull boy. At the very least, the "other things" can be inspirational and help look at your programming problems in other ways. Consider taking some management, marketing or communications courses so you can understand the business life going on around you at whatever company you join.

....like some welfare bum laughing as my fingers pound endlessly away at the keyboard. 10 Fingers plus 10 Toes = DOUBLE PRODUCTIVITY!!!!!

the mother-in-law's uterus. I think my testicles just shrank into my belly.

...startups are all about getting traction at minimal cost. The time to ask for equity is when the company has no money and want to save it wherever possible. Taking less money back then for some (very) small equity is something all startups would consider. When they're making money, or can see the light, it's all over for you.

Yes, yes I do.

...are a bunch of dicks in everything they do. They've never thought of a fee that is too insulting for their customers. They wrote the book on poor service. They only exist because the government provides protection to a corporation that provides too many political contributions.

This CEO has chosen an unfortunate way to be an attention whore. .NET may not be his cup of tea, but to say the experience is a liability is plain stupid. I'd suggest he spend more time generating some positive attention instead of making customers think Expensify is run by a moron.

As a long time worker in a G8 tax department, information overload has been going on for years. People get pissed because they don't have the best tools for the job, but I've never seen 'rage'.

Wow. $1.2B for what? A list of customers that have no taste?

"who else really wants it? 2560x2048 resolution doesn't exactly help me see my web pages or documents any better - in fact it can make them downright hard to see, so why do I need it?"

Setting aside your selfish attitude, some of us with degenerative eye disease could use higher res displays and bigger screens.

....only allows you to speak English when using an Iphone.

In the late 90's our startup had HP as a customer for a new on-line product. One day, about six months after they had become a customer, we get a call saying our product does not work. At the end of a SIX HOUR support call, I got on a plane for a cross-country flight because we just could not duplicate or figure out the problem. At 7:00 AM that morning I arrive, and at about 7:03 AM had the problem figured out. HP had recently made a change to their nework removing the browser ID string when employees were surfing the net. Our product needed that information for some processing. Even though the error message was CLEARLY being displayed, not once in the previous day's support call did this get mentioned. "Oh, that happens all the time, it happens with all sorts of applications, so we just ignore it." We had a fix in place by 10 AM and I was back on a cross country flight that afternoon. All because the customer ignored an error message.