Paul Graham on the misadventure that is the iPhone App store. Interestingly he ties the frustration of app developers, to the way Apple's "approval process" breaks the release-early-and-often development cycle. "Programmers don't use launch-fast-and-iterate out of laziness. They use it because it yields the best results.... By breaking software development, Apple gets the opposite of what they intended: the version of an app currently available in the App Store tends to be an old and buggy one."
- Noah Sussman
3 rules for coding: 1) use one-and-only-one indentation style, 2) "Good programs do not contain spelling errors or have grammatical mistakes. I think this is probably a result of fractal attention to detail; in great programs things are correct at all levels, down to the periods at the ends of sentences in comments." and 3) always immediately delete any superfluous code.
- Noah Sussman
I did the same thing with netcat and it does not work. Not sure yet what config I'm missing on the netcat side, but at least I can get the server to talk to me with telnet.
- Noah Sussman