TechZing

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Justin and Jason discuss implementing a subscription payment system
using PayPal’s API, how to learn from your customers, the inherent
disadvantages of following a waterfall development methodology, how to
remain productive when procrastinating, how most of the great
companies started out doing something different from what ended up
making them successful, the difficulty of debugging multi-threaded
C++, allowing market leaders to do your market research for you and
building an ORM (object relational mapper) from scratch.

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Apple doesn’t do market research, how 37 Signals and Dustin Curtis used A/B Testing, Hadoop, FirePHP, the Zend Framework, cross platform C++ libraries, QT, Hate Driven Development, the Google Voice brewhaha, Apple’s walled garden, Zed Shaw and the GPL, the problem with FOSS, consulting rates, Max Keiser, high frequency trading and the possibility of hyperinflation.