I’m a Myspace Apps developer. There is a popular app known as the truth box. So I made the Lie Box.
I thought the PMI may be the enemy of Scrum, but really it is just too easy. An enemy needs to have some credibility, some secret power. Mary Poppendieck has made Scrum the enemy of Lean. Now there’s an enemy worth fighting… except I am now with the enemy, and again, Lean is just too easy to beat up. Oh, what to do.
If you work for a small boutique consulting company like I do, the easiest enemies are always the big guys – Andersen, LogicaCMG, CGEY, etc. Works wonders in motivating our people, too. Unfortunately they do tend to be listed on large companies’ preferred supplier lists so there really is no getting around them.
My enemy: authority (… from the past?)
Remedy: NONE
Google Search without Experts-exchange:
Or grab a search plug-in for FireFox:
Well, for us (SlimDX) The Enemy is XNA. They’ve actually made it fairly easy, by refusing to provide either DirectX 10 or 64 bit support. There’s any number of selling points for us, but those two are short, easy, and undeniable. Many of our biggest users are doing crazy things that simply REQUIRE one of those two, or both.
@Jax yes John Skeet is a smart and humble guy. Nobody was saying it’s his fault or he’s a point whore. The comment was ‘how the heck can someone get 30k rep’ because at that point it’s absurd because there’s such a huge spread between him and mere mortals. Other people also tire of the meta-skeet discussions or the automatic deference to said individuals.
See there’s this automatic human tendency to think one person is superior over another due to a rating. If the only rating is rep, then that answer is going to be looked on more favorably. Until of course their rep gets too high and people then punish them for slipups. Oh humans are fickle.
I make more money than you, so am I better than you?
To address your comment, if 3k rep doesn’t matter, then why show it?
we try very, very hard not to suck
And that Mr Atwood, is a fantastic slogan for a software company.
@EE-or on,
Several of the top users on the site tend to stay away from softball questions. Jon Skeet, Mark Gravell, and Greg Hewgill all seem to have gotten the vast majority of their reputation from answering real technical questions. Several of the other top users have gotten their rep by specializing in a particular area, Konrad Rudolph in C++ and C#, and S. Lott in Python, just for a couple of notable examples. If you’re only lurking on the site, then you’re only seeing what’s popular for that moment. If you want to see the real benefit of Stack Overflow, ask a few questions that have code for an answer.
Jeff, I’m seriously considering co-opting the Evil Amphibian as my fake arch-enemy. 
I hate them.
My own personal arch enemy is General Electric Financial in Fairfield, CT.
I have my own reasons…
I am
What if your arch enemy is your own development team?
Having just read the chapter on Bootstrapping in Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of The Start today - this is a great example of his point about positioning against the leader.
Other examples:
7Up: The Uncola
Southwest: As cheap as driving.
hahahahahhaha but i like keroro the best hahahhaha!
hi im volatr i am evil you know pikachu!
opps spelled it wrong!
Dear Philip, please learn the difference between “deformation” and “defamation.”
Seeing that experts-exchange have been around a whole lot longer than stackoverflow, I’d say they aren’t doing too bad on those google results.
Results 1 - 10 of about 104,000 for experts-exchange sucks. (0.19 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 43,500 for stackoverflow sucks. (0.16 seconds)
My arch enemy == my brother-in-law.
500 points grade A for akimark for telling me something I didn’t know. Oh sorry, this isn’t EE.
EE provides a good service in fact. Whenever I have a problem I look there first. Is it expensive for what it offers? I think not.