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  Donating $5,000 to .NET Open Source Way back in June of last year, I promised to donate a portion of my advertising revenue back to the community: I will be donating a significant percentage of my ad revenue back to the programming community. The programming community is the reason I started... Posted Apr 11 2008, 12:59 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: advertising revenue, microsoft, programming community, different ways, blog, bloggers, ecosystem, developer evangelist, verbal commitment, anand iyer, money, voting system, ms developer, tipping point, development tools, class citizens, open source community, open source projects

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  How to Melt Your Web Server Wow. Self-employment has made Jeff bold! Incendiary, even. We Don’t Use Software That Costs Money Here: It’s tempting to ascribe this to the “cult of no-pay”, programmers and users who simply won’t pay for software no matter... Posted Apr 10 2008, 09:50 AM by Ian's Blog Feeds Filed under: programmers, pirates, t pay, cult, self employment, amp, money, use software

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  More on Paradise A couple of people have commented on the previous entry , citing, essentially, that Google needs to do this to be "the best". I understand the argument completely: Google wants to attract the top talent, or retain the top talent, or at least... Posted Apr 06 2008, 12:49 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: microsoft, tradeoff, justification, extravagance, necessary expense, bush, google, home away from home, developers, weekender, money, wall street, wall street journal, sonny, upper management, marathon, goole, zurich, heyday, windows nt team

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  Every User Lies Heidi Adkisson notes that features sell products , but the people buying those products often don't use the very features they bought the product for in the first place . A few years ago I did an extensive in-home study observing use of a particular... Posted Jan 31 2008, 11:59 PM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: aspiration, aspirations, models, purchase experience, paradox, heidi, reading routine, disparity, observation, decisions, economist magazine, economists, home study, computer hardware, amount of time, phrase, adkisson, freakonomics blog, liars, money