Life is a bit hard sometimes, and sometimes you have to step up and fight fights that you never signed up for.

Good software, like wine, takes time.

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

Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.

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.

Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.

Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.