If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.

Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead.

Good software, like wine, takes time.

An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.

Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.