That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine.

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