addicttostress

I must be alone in loving to work with people online but not so much in person. I don't think I could handle an event like that. I do love Stack Overflow, I'm happy it gained so many users.

Minimal research from a perspective of hands on usage would be both time and cost prohibitive. It's acceptable to gain an opinion of hardware or OS by hands on usage but I wouldn't want to invest that much money in systems that I've watched fail on a regular basis.

1. The Mac advertising and constant "It just works" mantra can lead many people to think they would work better on a Mac. The answer that you can just run Windows apps in VMWare when you need them gives people on the edge more of a reason to check out what all the fuss is about. It's been built up to be a bullet proof system from the OS to the hardware but like all systems it isn't perfect. When someone hears million times that this is perfect you should use it and they end up disappointed should you really be waging a finger at them for being an idiot because they listened to the advertising noise?

1.a (short): People buy macs to look cool or feel a part of the group of the "in crowd", even if that means they use nothing but windows on it.

My brother is a big fan of his MacBook Pro he uses for work and it's mainly because of his Unix admin background. When I look over his shoulder its all log files and terminal windows. Personally I've had too many issues to warrant a change of OS/Hardware for something that looks snazzy and has a pretty interface.

My office has iMac computers used only for testing. Out of the 7 in the office 4 have died. One started smoking and made a very loud noise before dying out. None of the 40+ PC's in the office have died. Sample size of 1 office but it's enough for me to steer clear of their hardware. After all these problems its been a running joke in the office "I though Macs just worked?!"

Why didn't you use a live demo?

I've always thought that I'll make a life after I make a living. My day to day isn't all that rough but I've got a long way to go before I can really relax.

VRML is back! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML

It looks like a plug for Flurry who is marketing itself as (and I looked in the title of the Flurry page for this) iPhone and Android analytics. See whats missing? Right, no Blackberry. Just because they support it doesn't mean they push marketing in that direction. Its a skewed result from a opt-in service.

The article isn't so much about the iPhone as it is the Flurry service giving us biased facts and Fluffy information.

As a reference:

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/04/09/dont-use-import/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=559804

I've had opportunities to leave a comfortable day job to work on startups. What kept me from joining up wasn't just risk but I didn't believe it would be a success. That's most important. Bootstrapping my own startup has taken more time but I've been completely relaxed on it and able to really set my launch up well without having to worry about supporting my family through a risky situation.

If you want to start a genuine conversation or discussion on hot topics is a valid reason for alternate accounts.

I must not have been clear enough in my question. The content for alternate accounts doesn't have to be obscene or uncivilized. You may just not want it associated with your core account. Everyone has many facets to their personality to which they show different faces in different situations, alternate accounts provide this functionality.

I am going out on a limb here to point out sp3000 was kind enough to toot Markus's horn by creating an account just to let us know.

I realize I created an account just to point this out and I know it may seem strange but trust me on this one.