I’ll admit it - I love reading Valleywag. It’s a great cynical counter to TechCrunch, as well as to countless tech beat writers who parrot press releases and are baffled when high-flying and well-funded companies fail. This is also the domain of Uncov, which is pretty funny as well but doesn’t post nearly […]

Our buddy Siqi, coder of Facebook Mafia, and RoR developer with our friends at Powerset, wrote a comment to Aaron’s last post. This stirred me to write my own (software developer’s) analysis of designing and writing software and picking the “right” features.
In The Republic Plato reminds us that “Necessity is the mother of invention.” […]