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{ "score": 0, "text": "We actually "launched" as a company[1] way before 2013, but now that I think about it, 2013 was significant for us in that we only really had a product "for sale" this year. We announced[2] LA (Limited Availability) of two of our products in 2013. We had hoped to close our first deal in 2013, but barring a miracle in the next week, that isn't going to happen. But going in 2014, things are looking very encouraging.So, given that, I'd say that the following points from TFA resonated with me:Your idea was too bigWhat we're working on is big, and as a result, it's taken what feels like forever just to get to this point. In hindsight, we might could have decomposed things a bit more, and done more to look for a way to get traction with a subset of the overall vision. And that's an adjustment that we are actually still looking into making. In 2014, we'll probably launch a SaaS version of our Information Discovery Platform, tailed for use as a "sales intelligence" tool, and targeted at sales teams. We've gotten some very positive feedback on this idea from a number of sales teams, so we're pretty excited about that. Had we decided to go this route sooner, we might be a lot better off now. But, hindsight is 20/20.You didn’t build an audienceWe only started really "working" social-media with an eye towards specifically trying to grow our audience, in 2013. I mean, we had a blog and a Twitter account and a Facebook page and the gamut all along... but last year we started taking it seriously. What I have come to realize is that growing an audience is a lot of work, but it is somewhat predictable. There are things, that if you do those things, will result in more Twitter followers, more mailing list signups, etc. We haven't dived full-bore into "growth hacking" but are definitely seeing the importance of these ideas.The other thing we hope to do in 2014 is more marketing efforts, including: presenting at user-groups and Meetups that relate to what we do, hosting Google Hangout sessions, and/or Twitter "live chats" on topics related to our domain, still more "content marketing" via our blog, and maybe even writing and publishing a book (or two).You tried doing it aloneDid that for the first year I was working on Fogbeam, but we've grown in fits and starts. IMO, you should invite people to join you when the time is right, and not just to say you "aren't a solo founder". We have three members on the founding team now, and a fourth person we're talking to about joining up to do sales. It's taken time, but we've been patient and looked for good fits.[1]: http://www.fogbeam.com[2]: http://fogbeam.com/news.html#press_release_08282013" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I'm doing everything solo. Not by choice, but I moved to a different city, away from my usual network. Haven't found the right people yet.Distractions from contracts (inevitable if I want to pay rent)I'm working with technology that's new to me.Also, it was a lot harder than I thought. My prototype was banged out in about 72 hours; I assumed the product would be a few months at most." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I'm doing everything solo. Not by choice, but I moved to a different city, away from my usual network. Haven't found the right people yet.Distractions from contracts (inevitable if I want to pay rent)I'm working with technology that's new to me.Also, it was a lot harder than I thought. My prototype was banged out in about 72 hours; I assumed the product would be a few months at most." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Alot of delays, some of them my fault . This is alot harder than I thought it would be and I knew it would be hard coming into it . Someone told me this would be the hardest thing Ive ever done in my life , which is saying something considering my life. Hope to be up by February of next year.\nThis was a really good post btw alot of helpful info Thanks" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Alot of delays, some of them my fault . This is alot harder than I thought it would be and I knew it would be hard coming into it . Someone told me this would be the hardest thing Ive ever done in my life , which is saying something considering my life. Hope to be up by February of next year.\nThis was a really good post btw alot of helpful info Thanks" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "2013 is not over :) . I am still aiming to release my V1 before 31 dec." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "2013 is not over :) . I am still aiming to release my V1 before 31 dec." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "The 2 things that stuck out for me in 2013 is1) Carving out time and sticking with it - not rescheduling it for someone else, totally agree you need to lock your self down for making it a priority and finishing an idea2) Which you mentioned is underestimating the time - 3 weeks was really 3 months for you. For me, I totally do this and work hard semi-launch something, test it and before I know 2 months have passed. Need to iterate faster and go hard.Great stuff - super excited for 2014 and JFDI :)" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "In terms of the supported Web Platform APIs, is this new Safari release any different from the recent WebKit snapshots? (http://nightly.webkit.org/builds/trunk/mac/1)Also, is WebKit2 framework still private on OSX 10.9?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Google Chrome Team: "Ah snap, and we just dropped WebKit!"Edit: It's a joke, guys. :/" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Google Chrome Team: "Ah snap, and we just dropped WebKit!"Edit: It's a joke, guys. :/" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I actually downgraded back to v5 because of the terrible changes they made to Web Inspector in v6, so I'm pretty annoyed that they didn't even mention it when introducing the new version -- at a developers' conference, no less!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I actually downgraded back to v5 because of the terrible changes they made to Web Inspector in v6, so I'm pretty annoyed that they didn't even mention it when introducing the new version -- at a developers' conference, no less!" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Now with PRISM support! j/k" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Now with PRISM support! j/k" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "An iCloud keychain? No thanks." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Does anybody else find this embedded document format as annoying as I do? This makes navigating with the mouse wheel extremely difficult." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Someone on the somethingawful forums OCR'd it. Easier to read: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=315...Someone from Goldman Sachs responded: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/06/26/goldman-sac..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Someone on the somethingawful forums OCR'd it. Easier to read: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=315...Someone from Goldman Sachs responded: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/06/26/goldman-sac..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "The root? No.Human nature uncontrolled is the root. Goldman is just the diseased cesspool in which it's allowed to fester." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "The root? No.Human nature uncontrolled is the root. Goldman is just the diseased cesspool in which it's allowed to fester." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Not remotely, but they're pretty scummy, like the investment banking industry as a whole. What makes them worse than most others is their connection to politics, which allows them to get all kinds of favors.If you want to develop a boiling hatred of the investment banking industry, look into how these firms handle IPOs. If the banks were behaving ethically, IPOs would be priced at the company's fair value, meaning that having an allocation in the IPO would have zero expectation. In practice, IPOs are known to be 10-15% underpriced, meaning that the IPOing firm raises less money than it should, while the bank has a positive-expectation allocation it can use to pay favors to clients. Moreover, it's a bad idea for an average Joe to participate in IPOs at all; if you're a nobody, banks will let you in on losing IPOs but never allocate you into the good ones.Another sad truth is that the \"nice\" (in relative terms) investment banks were Lehman and Bear, both of which died. Lehman especially was known for having less of a BSD (not the OS) culture than the other banks. It was also obvious even in late 2007 that these banks would be the first to fail (if nothing else, because they were less prestigious and would be hit first by panic-driven activities) while Goldman had enough of a lifeline to benefit from the inevitable \"stop the bleeding\" measures for which other banks would be too late." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Not remotely, but they're pretty scummy, like the investment banking industry as a whole. What makes them worse than most others is their connection to politics, which allows them to get all kinds of favors.If you want to develop a boiling hatred of the investment banking industry, look into how these firms handle IPOs. If the banks were behaving ethically, IPOs would be priced at the company's fair value, meaning that having an allocation in the IPO would have zero expectation. In practice, IPOs are known to be 10-15% underpriced, meaning that the IPOing firm raises less money than it should, while the bank has a positive-expectation allocation it can use to pay favors to clients. Moreover, it's a bad idea for an average Joe to participate in IPOs at all; if you're a nobody, banks will let you in on losing IPOs but never allocate you into the good ones.Another sad truth is that the \"nice\" (in relative terms) investment banks were Lehman and Bear, both of which died. Lehman especially was known for having less of a BSD (not the OS) culture than the other banks. It was also obvious even in late 2007 that these banks would be the first to fail (if nothing else, because they were less prestigious and would be hit first by panic-driven activities) while Goldman had enough of a lifeline to benefit from the inevitable \"stop the bleeding\" measures for which other banks would be too late." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Excellent!\nTechnically, it can be related to most of the greedy banking (Financial Services) establishment." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Hi hn! I'm so happy to get this finished and out the door that I'm giving away some free exports. Use the promo code HACKERNEWS on the products page (after login) to get a free export. It's good for the first 25 people that use it.Please let me know your feedback. I'm hoping this is a useful tool that will provide some value for people. If it proves to be popular, it could then be expanded to other services, etc..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Just queued up 3 blogs for exporting, working as expected, feels good. :)My only complaint was that I had to give my username/password, but @jazzychad tells me that's the only form of auth for the Posterous API, sadly. If you want to change your password before giving it away, here's the linky: http://posterous.com/#account/editUpdate (~10 minutes later): First export is done. Fast S3 download, nice in-archive directory structure, both HTML and JSON outputs, both scales and original media. Everything I could have asked for." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Just queued up 3 blogs for exporting, working as expected, feels good. :)My only complaint was that I had to give my username/password, but @jazzychad tells me that's the only form of auth for the Posterous API, sadly. If you want to change your password before giving it away, here's the linky: http://posterous.com/#account/editUpdate (~10 minutes later): First export is done. Fast S3 download, nice in-archive directory structure, both HTML and JSON outputs, both scales and original media. Everything I could have asked for." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I have a feeling a lot of people will be wanting to move from Posterous to hosted WordPress. There's an import plugin available[1], but it seems to have some major issues. You might want to consider adding support for WordPress's WXR format.1: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posterous-importer/" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I have a feeling a lot of people will be wanting to move from Posterous to hosted WordPress. There's an import plugin available[1], but it seems to have some major issues. You might want to consider adding support for WordPress's WXR format.1: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posterous-importer/" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "My favorite line from the blog post:\"If you are looking for a free solution, you can read the Posterous API documentation to create your own backups.\"Well said and great job on the tool Chad! If had a posterous blog, this would be a $9 no-brainer." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "My favorite line from the blog post:\"If you are looking for a free solution, you can read the Posterous API documentation to create your own backups.\"Well said and great job on the tool Chad! If had a posterous blog, this would be a $9 no-brainer." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Doesn't RSS already do this for you?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Perhaps this was the same crazy guy who spat on Michael Arrington recently.I think we have a rogue entrepreneur running around, driven mad by trying to get his product off the ground." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Crime is an inevitable result of division and exclusivity through monetary means.In this case, TED is keeping knowledge exclusive. It's a shame really. Why don't they just live broadcast the presentations to the world?With all their presenations and lectures on benevolence and making the world a better place, why don't they share the content with the world immediately? How much better would the world be if they had access to the information at TED? There's a lot of good stuff there, why hoard it all for the intellectual and wealthy elites who are invited and can afford it?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Crime is an inevitable result of division and exclusivity through monetary means.In this case, TED is keeping knowledge exclusive. It's a shame really. Why don't they just live broadcast the presentations to the world?With all their presenations and lectures on benevolence and making the world a better place, why don't they share the content with the world immediately? How much better would the world be if they had access to the information at TED? There's a lot of good stuff there, why hoard it all for the intellectual and wealthy elites who are invited and can afford it?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Duncan had to make a quick decision and I'm glad to learn that is doing fine now. However, I can't help but think that giving up the badge may have led to the attacker's arrest, if he ever attempted to enter TED with it. I think I would have given up my badge for that reason alone." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Duncan had to make a quick decision and I'm glad to learn that is doing fine now. However, I can't help but think that giving up the badge may have led to the attacker's arrest, if he ever attempted to enter TED with it. I think I would have given up my badge for that reason alone." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "a friend of mine goes to conferences for free using all sorts of trickery. he finds out the name of guests at hotels by lying to the front desk, he get conference badges and alters them with his name and picture. he sleeps in bathroom stalls and lobby sofas and the like. i don't think he'd every hurt someone---more of the civil disobedience type. it's amazing what he can do in a \"wow i'm free\" kind of way." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "a friend of mine goes to conferences for free using all sorts of trickery. he finds out the name of guests at hotels by lying to the front desk, he get conference badges and alters them with his name and picture. he sleeps in bathroom stalls and lobby sofas and the like. i don't think he'd every hurt someone---more of the civil disobedience type. it's amazing what he can do in a \"wow i'm free\" kind of way." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "James Duncan Davis' description of assault at TED2009 is harrowing, because it could have ended much worse and because it wasn't associated with a particularly risky behavior on his part. One single person rabid enough about getting into TED that he would manhandle and persist in trying to get Davis' TED badge despite vigorous struggle and loud screaming... also makes you aware Davis was at much greater risk if it had been two assailants or a knife/gun weilding one.Really a shame that common strategies such as walking in groups after dark (always urged at LA conferences I've been to) are important in Long Beach and at \"A place where great thinkers and optimists gather.\" Sure glad his person, wallet & photog gear as well as his TED badge ended up safe. Not pleased that the crazed attacker was not apprehended and may not have learned a lesson from his unsuccessful attack." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "If this is part of the same attack that hit LinkedIn and Last.fm are there any theories on what the exploit was? I'm having a hard time imagining how someone could steal passwords from 3 large, completely independent web services at the same time." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Couldn't password databases be implemented as hardened \"appliances?\" This wouldn't have to be sold as hardware, it could just be an install.The machine would only have the function of storing and verifying passwords, and secure communication with authorized clients. All apis could use fixed-length fields.Passwords themselves could be stored using a modified salting technique using a white-box version of block cipher. This would make it much harder for attackers to crack the password database.The block cipher used for the modified salt could also be implemented by separate hardware, which would make it much harder to crack the password database." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Couldn't password databases be implemented as hardened \"appliances?\" This wouldn't have to be sold as hardware, it could just be an install.The machine would only have the function of storing and verifying passwords, and secure communication with authorized clients. All apis could use fixed-length fields.Passwords themselves could be stored using a modified salting technique using a white-box version of block cipher. This would make it much harder for attackers to crack the password database.The block cipher used for the modified salt could also be implemented by separate hardware, which would make it much harder to crack the password database." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Perhaps users would be better served by salting their passwords manually before signing up for any web services. If your usual throwaway password is \"Passw0rd1\", try \"eharmonyPassw0rd1\" for your eHarmony account, and \"linkedinPassw0rd1\" for your LinkedIn account.At this point, I can't even tell if this is sarcasm." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Perhaps users would be better served by salting their passwords manually before signing up for any web services. If your usual throwaway password is \"Passw0rd1\", try \"eharmonyPassw0rd1\" for your eHarmony account, and \"linkedinPassw0rd1\" for your LinkedIn account.At this point, I can't even tell if this is sarcasm." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Is this newfound outpouring of confirmed hacks a result of the market becoming more blasé about leaked passwords, or is this just a statistical anomale?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Is this newfound outpouring of confirmed hacks a result of the market becoming more blasé about leaked passwords, or is this just a statistical anomale?" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I have to imagine that this will open the potential for a viral website of the \"is your spouse still playing the field\" variety." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "> "I have a passion for making things that kids want, and I have a passion for winning" - Isaac LarianAre you kidding me? You exploited these kids' minds and brainwashed them into wanting your product which has dealt irreparable harm to their self image.I can't read the rest of the article; I'm too upset by his self delusion." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I really wish articles like these would spend more time on how the poor immigrant went from 0 to first 10 million, then from 10m to 1bio (of course I realize the author only has what his subject would tell him - so it's only a wish).Here we have 'In the early 1980s they moved on to consumer electronics, repackaging Nintendo's GameBoy forerunner, the Game & Watch, pulling in $21 million in sales the first year. That fad passed after a couple of years but left Larian with an appetite for the toy business. When a struggling inventor in 1996 brought him a design for a talking doll already passed over by Mattel and others, Larian pounced. Singing Bouncy Baby was the surprise runaway hit of 1997.'So by '96 he was in position to talk to with inventors and bring their ideas to be 'runaway hits' (which I understand is largely about marketing). To me (personally) the path from nothing to someone who can bring runaway toy to market is more interesting than how they build the business beyond that point." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I really wish articles like these would spend more time on how the poor immigrant went from 0 to first 10 million, then from 10m to 1bio (of course I realize the author only has what his subject would tell him - so it's only a wish).Here we have 'In the early 1980s they moved on to consumer electronics, repackaging Nintendo's GameBoy forerunner, the Game & Watch, pulling in $21 million in sales the first year. That fad passed after a couple of years but left Larian with an appetite for the toy business. When a struggling inventor in 1996 brought him a design for a talking doll already passed over by Mattel and others, Larian pounced. Singing Bouncy Baby was the surprise runaway hit of 1997.'So by '96 he was in position to talk to with inventors and bring their ideas to be 'runaway hits' (which I understand is largely about marketing). To me (personally) the path from nothing to someone who can bring runaway toy to market is more interesting than how they build the business beyond that point." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This is the guy who invented Bratz? Bratz are fucking evil, my little girl doesn't need a sexy doll. I refuse to buy her one." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This is the guy who invented Bratz? Bratz are fucking evil, my little girl doesn't need a sexy doll. I refuse to buy her one." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Why does all integrity fly out the window when it comes time to write the title?He didn't become a billionaire through his fight with Mattel, he became one in spite of it.Or did I read the article wrong?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Why does all integrity fly out the window when it comes time to write the title?He didn't become a billionaire through his fight with Mattel, he became one in spite of it.Or did I read the article wrong?" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "> The court wound up ruling in MGA’s favor and last January awarded it $137 million for legal fees. But the judge left the door open for Larian to refile his suit against Mattel. Larian vows he won’t let the matter drop until Mattel comes crawling to him: “If those guys want me out of their hair, they’ll apologize.”Sounds like the best client ever." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Android is Open Source in that Google dumps the source code into the open periodically. It's not developed in the open.Honeycomb's source was and never will be open.This is way farther on the 'open' side of the spectrum than any other major mobile OS.Is this, along with Android's open app marketplace, ability to install arbitrary third party software, and installability on any compatible device enough to warrant Google's marketing as 'open'?I say yes." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Do we have a term to distinguish between the two different models of open source? The two models being the \"development in public\" model (Chrome, Firefox, Rails, etc) and the \"release finished code\" model (Android, most GPL components of closed source software, etc)." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Do we have a term to distinguish between the two different models of open source? The two models being the \"development in public\" model (Chrome, Firefox, Rails, etc) and the \"release finished code\" model (Android, most GPL components of closed source software, etc)." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Google's recalcitrance appears to stem from two issues: one is that Honeycomb is specifically designed for large-screen devices and Google is concerned that, if released, it would find its way onto unsuitable form factors; the other, hinted at by Google employees in the past, is that much of the code is a kludge unsuitable for publication.I'm not sure why Google caught so much slack for keeping 3.0 closed source. I found these to be great reasons and instead of dealing with a bunch of HoneyComb/Android SUCKS reviews when someone put honeycomb on a small screen device google just weathered it out and released something with some quality." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Google's recalcitrance appears to stem from two issues: one is that Honeycomb is specifically designed for large-screen devices and Google is concerned that, if released, it would find its way onto unsuitable form factors; the other, hinted at by Google employees in the past, is that much of the code is a kludge unsuitable for publication.I'm not sure why Google caught so much slack for keeping 3.0 closed source. I found these to be great reasons and instead of dealing with a bunch of HoneyComb/Android SUCKS reviews when someone put honeycomb on a small screen device google just weathered it out and released something with some quality." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Something has to figure out that a product \"IS\" not open source AS LONG AS THE SOURCE IS NOT RELEASED.\nSo no, right now, ICS is NOT open-source.It will be the day they release the source.Being open-source is not a design attribute. It's a process." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Something has to figure out that a product \"IS\" not open source AS LONG AS THE SOURCE IS NOT RELEASED.\nSo no, right now, ICS is NOT open-source.It will be the day they release the source.Being open-source is not a design attribute. It's a process." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "\"Although the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software development kit has been released, the source code is not yet out.\"I believe this is called \"closed source.\" When I go to http://source.android.com/, the latest release is Android 2.3 (\"Gingerbread\").Am I missing a repository somewhere, or is Google \"happy claiming the kudos and moral high ground that comes with OSS without really delivering on it\", as it's put later in this thread?(Edited to be less inflammatory)" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I dunno, I bought the book and he comes across as pretty real and transparent, check out his blog posts on iPhone Development. One of his major points is that if you aren't teaching, you aren't adding value. Something a lot of coders could learn from . . . not to mention being able to make money doing what you love." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "A few years later, Nathan Barry will write a sequel explaining how to make even more money by selling a $200 get-rich-quick package.I can't comment on the content or the author -- as I'm familiar with neither -- but the copy here set off more than a few red flags and alarms." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "A few years later, Nathan Barry will write a sequel explaining how to make even more money by selling a $200 get-rich-quick package.I can't comment on the content or the author -- as I'm familiar with neither -- but the copy here set off more than a few red flags and alarms." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Congrats Nathan. I've been following you for a few weeks now. You've basically inspired me to start turning my naming business into a book/video program.I've got a couple questions (which I could email you, but I figured others might be interested):- Any thoughts on an email subscriber discount? Those who sign up for your newsletter get an extra X% discount.- Does the giant, repeated format really work? I personally find it kind of annoying that every interview and product feature is repeated for each package.- Any quick thoughts on how to \"test out\" an idea before committing to writing 200+ pages?Thanks!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Congrats Nathan. I've been following you for a few weeks now. You've basically inspired me to start turning my naming business into a book/video program.I've got a couple questions (which I could email you, but I figured others might be interested):- Any thoughts on an email subscriber discount? Those who sign up for your newsletter get an extra X% discount.- Does the giant, repeated format really work? I personally find it kind of annoying that every interview and product feature is repeated for each package.- Any quick thoughts on how to \"test out\" an idea before committing to writing 200+ pages?Thanks!" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Nathan, how long do you reckon it would take for a newbie to go from not having any audience to $15,000 in sales (including time for writing the book)?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Nathan, how long do you reckon it would take for a newbie to go from not having any audience to $15,000 in sales (including time for writing the book)?" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Is this the same product: http://my.copyblogger.com/join-authority/ ?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Why does everyone assume it's Google's responsibility to save the internet?Yes, they do extremely great things for the world, the internet, and to protect privacy and people's rights, but rather than criticize them when they don't step up to the plate every single time, why not criticize other companies for not even considering it and failing to ever act.I've seen over 75% of the people I know give thousands of dollars to Apple, but Apple gives back nothing to the world, they should be the ones criticized.How can a company such as Apple have hundreds of billions of dollars and not even consider helping the world with all of that extra money? Imagine the amazingly great things they could do if they weren't so focused on hoarding cash and ensuring nobody "steals" their rounded corner idea.The original article title is just link-bait anyways, it even says at the bottom, "Google hasn't gone completely silent. It and Facebook are members of the Internet Association, which in April urged the FCC to adopt open-Internet rules." So then what's the point of the article? To say that Google has been fighting for open-internet for 8+ years and that it helped form a group to help achieve that goal?Edit: If you disagree then please comment. I knew this wasn't going to be a popular thing to post but I think the discussion is more important than the karma points." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "> The rules have attracted more than 600,000 comments to the FCC’s website, including some filed after HBO’s John Oliver told his television audience “the Internet in its current form is not broken, and the FCC is currently taking steps to fix that.”That could backfire. The courts struck down the FCC's net neutrality rules. We are currently operating without net neutrality. The FCC is trying to restore net neutrality, using the same regulatory authority it used before, but this time consistent with the limits placed on it by the courts.The complaint of some net neutrality advocates is that this regulatory authority is not powerful enough after the limitations placed by the courts (it can prohibit "slow lanes", but cannot prohibit "fast lanes", only require that they be offered on a commercially reasonable, non-discriminatory basis). They want the FCC to switch to a different, more powerful, regulatory authority.If people submit comments to the FCC modeled after what John Oliver said, saying that the internet is fine as is, and the FCC should not make changes, they are in effect saying that they do NOT want net neutrality." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "> The rules have attracted more than 600,000 comments to the FCC’s website, including some filed after HBO’s John Oliver told his television audience “the Internet in its current form is not broken, and the FCC is currently taking steps to fix that.”That could backfire. The courts struck down the FCC's net neutrality rules. We are currently operating without net neutrality. The FCC is trying to restore net neutrality, using the same regulatory authority it used before, but this time consistent with the limits placed on it by the courts.The complaint of some net neutrality advocates is that this regulatory authority is not powerful enough after the limitations placed by the courts (it can prohibit "slow lanes", but cannot prohibit "fast lanes", only require that they be offered on a commercially reasonable, non-discriminatory basis). They want the FCC to switch to a different, more powerful, regulatory authority.If people submit comments to the FCC modeled after what John Oliver said, saying that the internet is fine as is, and the FCC should not make changes, they are in effect saying that they do NOT want net neutrality." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I can't help but worry this is because Google knows how much a "fast lane" could help it. They've got the cash to deliver their product at super speeds and get a leg up on everybody else who doesn't." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I can't help but worry this is because Google knows how much a "fast lane" could help it. They've got the cash to deliver their product at super speeds and get a leg up on everybody else who doesn't." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "WAT?https://www.google.com/takeaction/" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "WAT?https://www.google.com/takeaction/" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "This makes me concerned about the future of the internet.I get it why big companies want to stifle innovation and competition, but its just plain wrong." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Twitter is already the dominant force in whatever it is you would call what they do, and they can't fund their operations without huge influxes of cash at regular intervals. This makes me wonder why investors would let them spend investor money on something that doesn't at all help them stay afloat long enough to become profitable.Perhaps there is something in this that makes them more likely to be a success? Perhaps they are making employees agree to stay for some amount of time as a part of accepting an option buyout? Giving away 5% of the value of your company seems like an expensive way to avoid some SEC paperwork, so I'm at a loss on why they would do this, other than just to be really nice." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I'm very much a layman with regard to SEC rules, but I believe there's a rule that says you have to go public if you have 500+ shareholders. So, if 100-200 employees are willing to sell all of their stock now, does that mean Twitter gets to avoid being hit by the SEC rule for another 6-12 months?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I'm very much a layman with regard to SEC rules, but I believe there's a rule that says you have to go public if you have 500+ shareholders. So, if 100-200 employees are willing to sell all of their stock now, does that mean Twitter gets to avoid being hit by the SEC rule for another 6-12 months?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If I were Twitter employee, I would have cashed out. I can see Twitter will follow the same pattern as Myspace." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If I were Twitter employee, I would have cashed out. I can see Twitter will follow the same pattern as Myspace." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It's always nice to be able to take something \"off the table.\"If I had an investor that was willing to pay me, directly, for 10 - 20% of my shareholding in a private company whilst additionally adding extra cash, I would take the offer too.It's not like Twitter decided to use half the $800m to buy-back shares instead of investing in the company, they just decided to get some cash out instead of just taking $400m." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It's always nice to be able to take something \"off the table.\"If I had an investor that was willing to pay me, directly, for 10 - 20% of my shareholding in a private company whilst additionally adding extra cash, I would take the offer too.It's not like Twitter decided to use half the $800m to buy-back shares instead of investing in the company, they just decided to get some cash out instead of just taking $400m." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Anyone else not surprised?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I haven't exactly been as amazed by the Khan Academy as everyone else has. After watching a few videos, I decided that we need to focus more on the material that we are teaching - rather than the methods we go about doing it. They will obviously go hand by hand, but in my opinion the material that we are teaching is our biggest weakness and therefore needs the most reform.A video that everyone should take the time to watch is Conrad Wolfram's TED talk on teaching students with computers (http://www.ted.com/talks/conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids_real_m...). While we may use computers now to enhance the learning methods, we haven't taken advantage of the content/knowledge computers have and can supply for us. The majority of what is taught in grades K-12 in science and math could be done by a computer in almost no time with increased accuracy. Why wouldn't we take advantage of that?The gist of Wolfram's talk is that we are teaching students mechanics (which computers can do more efficiently) when we should be teaching them the higher orders of thinking and problem solving.Against popular belief, concepts can be understood without learning the nitty-gritty mechanics. One could solve a quadratic word problem without solving the quadratic equation themselves, and still understand the problem just as well. Think about it: do you need to learn how the engine of a car works before you can drive it?While all of this is not entirely relevant to the article, I humbly believe that the future of education should be and will be (if everything goes right) orders of magnitudes higher in efficiency as students will spend more time learning the right material. I'm not sure how much the Khan Academy will play a role in that..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The Khan Academy is A Future of Education.Talented educators (non-traditional and traditional) and technology are going to keep coming together in new and interesting ways. There will be lots of failures, but Khan Academy will not be the only success. The article doesn't mention things like MIT's effort in this field that predate Khan's efforts etc." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The Khan Academy is A Future of Education.Talented educators (non-traditional and traditional) and technology are going to keep coming together in new and interesting ways. There will be lots of failures, but Khan Academy will not be the only success. The article doesn't mention things like MIT's effort in this field that predate Khan's efforts etc." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "As an autodidact interested in exploring more mathematics, of course I learned about Khan Academy. One look and I was impressed, but that didn't last long. Though the videos are well done all around, there's no clear curriculum to follow. Or if there is a curriculum, it's not obvious. Instead, I have a bazillion videos to choose from. Which videos depend on knowledge in other videos, and which ones can be done in parallel? No idea.Education's past is a series of textbooks (plus supplemental info and exercises), providing a clear path to learning. Khan Academy, such as it now stands, is a video analog of textbook chapters as discrete units all in an unorganized pile. Until more is done in the neglected areas, Khan Academy will remain an extremely valuable resource, but not a curriculum. Even if/when these missing bits are done this will only be the future of delivery of fairly traditional materials.The real future of education is a computerized personal tutor that provides individual assessment, guidance, alternate explanations where comprehension lacks, encouragement to pursue natural ability and enthusiasm, etc. That's pretty ambitious, but not at all inconceivable. We're close enough to being able to achieve it that we should hold up this ideal goal so we know the right direction as we build the pieces." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "As an autodidact interested in exploring more mathematics, of course I learned about Khan Academy. One look and I was impressed, but that didn't last long. Though the videos are well done all around, there's no clear curriculum to follow. Or if there is a curriculum, it's not obvious. Instead, I have a bazillion videos to choose from. Which videos depend on knowledge in other videos, and which ones can be done in parallel? No idea.Education's past is a series of textbooks (plus supplemental info and exercises), providing a clear path to learning. Khan Academy, such as it now stands, is a video analog of textbook chapters as discrete units all in an unorganized pile. Until more is done in the neglected areas, Khan Academy will remain an extremely valuable resource, but not a curriculum. Even if/when these missing bits are done this will only be the future of delivery of fairly traditional materials.The real future of education is a computerized personal tutor that provides individual assessment, guidance, alternate explanations where comprehension lacks, encouragement to pursue natural ability and enthusiasm, etc. That's pretty ambitious, but not at all inconceivable. We're close enough to being able to achieve it that we should hold up this ideal goal so we know the right direction as we build the pieces." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Yes, the Khan Academy IS the Future of Education.\"Then:There are no guarantees, of course.Maybe, then, it's time to pull back on the hype machine for Khan Academy. I've used it before, and it's wonderful as a student aid, but it basically boils down to free instructional videos. It's a great help, but it's hardly the revolution that the headline makes it out to be." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Yes, the Khan Academy IS the Future of Education.\"Then:There are no guarantees, of course.Maybe, then, it's time to pull back on the hype machine for Khan Academy. I've used it before, and it's wonderful as a student aid, but it basically boils down to free instructional videos. It's a great help, but it's hardly the revolution that the headline makes it out to be." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I really can't express how inspirational Khan is. The way he is able to break down difficult concepts into bite sized chunks is amazing.It was really inevitable that someone with his abilities would change the way education is delivered by using tools like YouTube. Of course, his teaching style may not be for everyone, but the mere fact that the Khan Academy exists, and is free, gives me great hope for humanity." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Read the top two answers (Bill Bliss, Robert Scoble), and it seems they're missing what I see as the most obvious and comprehensive answer. Bliss touches on it in passing, but not as a main theme...The real reason MS doesn't get tablets is that it's a new product category, and MS pretty much always thinks in terms of how to extend who they are (Desktop) into any new market. XBox hardly counts; while it's a great product they did not have to define the market in any way, they moved in and made a solid product in a well defined market. With Kinect they really did something outrageously cool, but this isn't usual for them.Apple, on the other hand, has shown the ability to look at niche markets and see the bigger picture, turning it mainstream. iPod, iPhone, iPad: all of these areas had existing companies with somewhat successful products, but definitely niche.Sometimes MS reminds me of Xerox's lack of foresight with PARC." }

{ "score": 1, "text": ">\"While the iPad is selling like multi-touch hotcakes, Microsoft is significantly lagging behind with its tablet offerings\"There is a category mistake underlying the article. Microsoft does not sell tablets. Furthermore, their operating systems have dominated the tablet segment for more than a decade and been the OS of choice for leading tablet manufacturer's such as Fujitsu for nearly 20 years.[http://www.fpc.fujitsu.com/www/content/products/Tablet-PCS/H...]The iPad is successful mainly because of Apple's ability to market it to consumers rather than the businesses which have traditionally used tablets and are always the centerline of Microsoft's roadmap. But the tablet market did not spring into being last April - NASA put tablets running Windows 95 in orbit aboard the Space Shuttle in 1997. [http://www.fpc.fujitsu.com/www/content/products/Tablet-PCS/H...]" }

{ "score": 1, "text": ">\"While the iPad is selling like multi-touch hotcakes, Microsoft is significantly lagging behind with its tablet offerings\"There is a category mistake underlying the article. Microsoft does not sell tablets. Furthermore, their operating systems have dominated the tablet segment for more than a decade and been the OS of choice for leading tablet manufacturer's such as Fujitsu for nearly 20 years.[http://www.fpc.fujitsu.com/www/content/products/Tablet-PCS/H...]The iPad is successful mainly because of Apple's ability to market it to consumers rather than the businesses which have traditionally used tablets and are always the centerline of Microsoft's roadmap. But the tablet market did not spring into being last April - NASA put tablets running Windows 95 in orbit aboard the Space Shuttle in 1997. [http://www.fpc.fujitsu.com/www/content/products/Tablet-PCS/H...]" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "A great quote from Robert Scoble: \"I remember talking with [Microsoft executives] on the mobile team when I worked there in 2005. They said they were going after enterprises only and didn't care about consumers. Apple knew that wouldn't work. Enterprises don't like new things. Consumers do.\"" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "A great quote from Robert Scoble: \"I remember talking with [Microsoft executives] on the mobile team when I worked there in 2005. They said they were going after enterprises only and didn't care about consumers. Apple knew that wouldn't work. Enterprises don't like new things. Consumers do.\"" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Microsoft simply doesn't need to \"understand tablets\", at least not right now. Microsoft's key products, Windows and Office, are the de facto standards of the office. Tablets won't change that." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Microsoft simply doesn't need to \"understand tablets\", at least not right now. Microsoft's key products, Windows and Office, are the de facto standards of the office. Tablets won't change that." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "The article also has something factually wrong (attributed to MS): in the corporate world, the Ipad is useful for discussing documents o presentations around a table, between two or three people, when undocking a notebook takes way more than the time you need to set up an Ipad.I also made that mistake in the begining, I had to see the Ipad in action to valuate it as the right tool for that job." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I did extensive research on this thing when I was doing my last start-up. It's a clustering engine, but it is limited in that it is specifically tuned to cluster search results. For example, it returns poor clustering results if you input a set of long text documents; it works much better when its input consists of a query string and a set of titles and short snippets." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Am I the only person that thinks the visualization is the smart part (and wonders why it's not the front page)?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Am I the only person that thinks the visualization is the smart part (and wonders why it's not the front page)?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Nothing to do with \"Clustering\"; it's a multi search-engine result filter, albeit a fancy one." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Nothing to do with \"Clustering\"; it's a multi search-engine result filter, albeit a fancy one." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "grrr damn web designers .... I need to READ not to watch nice shadows everywhere!... aw a Cmd+ resolve this, but the whole design do to hell nicely :)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "grrr damn web designers .... I need to READ not to watch nice shadows everywhere!... aw a Cmd+ resolve this, but the whole design do to hell nicely :)" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "This is really cool. One of the most useful search engines I've seen in a long time, not to mention open source." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "SoftLayer has been doing this since 2006 and also offers virtual compute instances as well. Can be purchased hourly or monthlyhttp://www.softlayer.com/bare-metal-servers" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "As near as I can figure, the OnMetal servers are 3x-5x what I'd pay for dedicated servers from, say, a Hurricane reseller, and the virtual servers are more than 2x as much as comparable Linode servers, with the Linode servers offering way more SSD storage, more bandwidth, etc.Not to mention, Rackspace charges you $120 per terabyte of data transfer, while you'll get several terabytes of transfer free/included when buying from Linode or most dedicated server resellers.That seems like a hefty premium for...what? The Rackspace name? Is there any reason to believe that Rackspace has better uptime/reliability than Linode? Any reason to believe Rackspace has better hardware than Linode? Given that neither company — as with most cloud providers — provides any truly meaningful transparency, it's impossible to say.For my money, I think I'd rather spend less of it, or spend the same amount and get more/redundant servers.I'm genuinely struggling to understand the value of Rackspace." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "As near as I can figure, the OnMetal servers are 3x-5x what I'd pay for dedicated servers from, say, a Hurricane reseller, and the virtual servers are more than 2x as much as comparable Linode servers, with the Linode servers offering way more SSD storage, more bandwidth, etc.Not to mention, Rackspace charges you $120 per terabyte of data transfer, while you'll get several terabytes of transfer free/included when buying from Linode or most dedicated server resellers.That seems like a hefty premium for...what? The Rackspace name? Is there any reason to believe that Rackspace has better uptime/reliability than Linode? Any reason to believe Rackspace has better hardware than Linode? Given that neither company — as with most cloud providers — provides any truly meaningful transparency, it's impossible to say.For my money, I think I'd rather spend less of it, or spend the same amount and get more/redundant servers.I'm genuinely struggling to understand the value of Rackspace." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I want to want this, but the pricing just doesn't seem competitive with EC2. Am I missing something?For example, compare the "I/O" server with an EC2 i2.4xlarge instance. The Rackspace server has 128GB RAM, 3.2TB disk, and 20 cores; i2.4xlarge has 122GB, 3.2TB, and 16 -- nearly comparable.On EC2, I can buy a 3-year Light Utilization Reserved Instance for $3884, and then pay $828/month (based on 720 hours per month). After 12 months, my average cost has been $1152/month. I still have two years left on my reservation, which I can keep using, or possibly sell, so the effective cost is even lower.If I'm more certain of a 12-month server lifetime, I can buy a 1-year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instance for $7280, and then pay $447/month, for a total cost of $1054/month.On Rackspace, list price is $1800/month. Suppose my total spend is $10,000/month (list price) and I commit to 12 months. I get a 15% discount, or $1530/month. That's quite a bit more expensive than EC2, and with EC2 I'm committing less up front. A longer commitment would help, but it would also bring down the EC2 price.Can anyone poke holes in my analysis?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I want to want this, but the pricing just doesn't seem competitive with EC2. Am I missing something?For example, compare the "I/O" server with an EC2 i2.4xlarge instance. The Rackspace server has 128GB RAM, 3.2TB disk, and 20 cores; i2.4xlarge has 122GB, 3.2TB, and 16 -- nearly comparable.On EC2, I can buy a 3-year Light Utilization Reserved Instance for $3884, and then pay $828/month (based on 720 hours per month). After 12 months, my average cost has been $1152/month. I still have two years left on my reservation, which I can keep using, or possibly sell, so the effective cost is even lower.If I'm more certain of a 12-month server lifetime, I can buy a 1-year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instance for $7280, and then pay $447/month, for a total cost of $1054/month.On Rackspace, list price is $1800/month. Suppose my total spend is $10,000/month (list price) and I commit to 12 months. I get a 15% discount, or $1530/month. That's quite a bit more expensive than EC2, and with EC2 I'm committing less up front. A longer commitment would help, but it would also bring down the EC2 price.Can anyone poke holes in my analysis?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "SysBench is ok when used properly, but UnixBench?They provide instructions on how you can patch and run it, using "./Run", but no warnings about what this is actually doing. See http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-02/compilers-love-m... . I'd like to write a lot more about UnixBench, but I really don't have the time. It takes a lot of energy to refute this stuff.If I were benchmarking OnMetal vs HW virt, I'd be showing a spectrum of micro-benchmarks, from equal performance (CPU) to network I/O. I'd expect some of my results to show a ~10x difference. You would then choose/weight them depending on what matters for your intended application." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "SysBench is ok when used properly, but UnixBench?They provide instructions on how you can patch and run it, using "./Run", but no warnings about what this is actually doing. See http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-02/compilers-love-m... . I'd like to write a lot more about UnixBench, but I really don't have the time. It takes a lot of energy to refute this stuff.If I were benchmarking OnMetal vs HW virt, I'd be showing a spectrum of micro-benchmarks, from equal performance (CPU) to network I/O. I'd expect some of my results to show a ~10x difference. You would then choose/weight them depending on what matters for your intended application." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Still not seen a discussion of how they are dealing with the huge security nightmare of direct customer hardware access." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I'm jealous of that awesome setup with a 30 inch monitor. I'm even more jealous that he has his girlfriend as his co-founder. Its extremely hard to meet pleasant, smart as well as entrepreneur-minded females in this line of work." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Do people really want to be distracted by a constantly-visible browser window? I find virtual desktops to be much easier than managing multiple monitors. It also gives me more real desk space for notes and coffee cups :)" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Do people really want to be distracted by a constantly-visible browser window? I find virtual desktops to be much easier than managing multiple monitors. It also gives me more real desk space for notes and coffee cups :)" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I'm not familiar with the display adapters on a Macbook, but my 2008-gen 13\" Macbook connects to an external monitor fine. Could I use a splitter, like he states, and connect it to two 24\"? That would be pretty awesome." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I'm not familiar with the display adapters on a Macbook, but my 2008-gen 13\" Macbook connects to an external monitor fine. Could I use a splitter, like he states, and connect it to two 24\"? That would be pretty awesome." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I've been doing the same thing for a while, but with dual 23's. My adapter is an IOGear USB 2.0 DVI adapter. I seem to recall I had to download the OSX drivers from their website, but other than that it works very well.Note the iMovie will not run if it detects one of these adapters though." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I've been doing the same thing for a while, but with dual 23's. My adapter is an IOGear USB 2.0 DVI adapter. I seem to recall I had to download the OSX drivers from their website, but other than that it works very well.Note the iMovie will not run if it detects one of these adapters though." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I have a software-based solution for this, but I think I'll definitely look into a USB to DVI adapter now...http://blog.carlmercier.com/2009/02/16/a-dream-setup-three-m..." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "It's worth checking out how Amazon did their iPhone Kindle. When you initiate a rotation, it pops up a little button at the corner of the screen for about 2 seconds that allows you to lock that orientation. Most elegant implantation I've seen. It doesn't solve the issue of the user wanting to initiate a rotation without the accelerometer." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I like this idea. It does need to be a system-wide thing really, and while this does add a bit of settings and UI clutter it’s a common enough problem that Apple should be doing something to address it." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I like this idea. It does need to be a system-wide thing really, and while this does add a bit of settings and UI clutter it’s a common enough problem that Apple should be doing something to address it." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Amen. The most annoying 'feature' on my iPhone is auto-rotate. I'll be driving along in my car with my iPhone being used as my iPod, and every time I lay the device down it goes into landscape and I need to put it back when I want to change a song." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Amen. The most annoying 'feature' on my iPhone is auto-rotate. I'll be driving along in my car with my iPhone being used as my iPod, and every time I lay the device down it goes into landscape and I need to put it back when I want to change a song." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I haven't jailbroken my iPhone yet, but SBSettings has a solution for autorotation, and brightness, and almost anything that annoys me with my iPhone on a daily basis.Now that I have seen SBSettings, I am considering jailbreaking. Apple should do something like SBSettings.http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/22/sbsettings-why-i-still-ja..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I haven't jailbroken my iPhone yet, but SBSettings has a solution for autorotation, and brightness, and almost anything that annoys me with my iPhone on a daily basis.Now that I have seen SBSettings, I am considering jailbreaking. Apple should do something like SBSettings.http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/22/sbsettings-why-i-still-ja..." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Surely this solution is still going to fail the walking/train test -- the icon will be on the screen permanently in those situations.The phone will detect movement, the icon will appear, it'll fade after a few seconds, the movement will be interpreted as the \"shake to bring it back\", it'll reappear, then fade, and repeat ad nauseum." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I have to say, the Air applications I use regularly (Hulu and Pandora One) both work very well on Linux and Windows. They are kind of resource hogs, but then so is iTunes, so it's really a case of the pot calling the kettle black on the performance front too. When Apple does cross-platform, they're not really that good at it. Google and the FOSS community is fantastic at it, and Adobe is middling.Really, the primary thing that bothers me about Flash is the way it locks in my content. However, it's clear that I'm not getting the content served via Adobe Air without kill strings attached, so it's a symptom of a larger problem in the market, and not itself the source." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Interesting, insightful article. It portrays the story taking the early years of cooperation between Apple and Adobe into account.> I was working at Apple when this process happened, and I can tell you that it was searing. Apple had invested countless hours and dollars marketing those products as prominent reasons to buy Macs, and then we saw that investment turned against us when the apps were made available on Windows." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Interesting, insightful article. It portrays the story taking the early years of cooperation between Apple and Adobe into account.> I was working at Apple when this process happened, and I can tell you that it was searing. Apple had invested countless hours and dollars marketing those products as prominent reasons to buy Macs, and then we saw that investment turned against us when the apps were made available on Windows." }

{ "score": 2, "text": " There's an old quote attributed to Napoleon, \"If you start to take\n Vienna, take Vienna.\" Adobe failed to take Vienna. Note to other\n tech companies: Don't declare your intention to take over the\n world; do it first and explain later. (By the way, this explains\n both Apple's strategy and Chinese foreign policy, but I digress.)" }

{ "score": 2, "text": " There's an old quote attributed to Napoleon, \"If you start to take\n Vienna, take Vienna.\" Adobe failed to take Vienna. Note to other\n tech companies: Don't declare your intention to take over the\n world; do it first and explain later. (By the way, this explains\n both Apple's strategy and Chinese foreign policy, but I digress.)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "If Adobe had more of a clue, I'd feel more sympathetic. They have a track record of putting annoying marketing ahead of good software and the user experience." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "If Adobe had more of a clue, I'd feel more sympathetic. They have a track record of putting annoying marketing ahead of good software and the user experience." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Very good analysis of the relationship between the two companies and the goals of each one. But I disagree on this passage:As a PostScript developer you were welcome to work with Adobe's low-quality font technology, but Adobe refused to allow any developer to access its proprietary high-quality APIs.Sounds like something Apple would do, doesn't it?There are a lot of things I, as a developer, don't like in Apple decisions on iPhone development and App Store policies, but to my record I've never seen such a behavior from Apple.Apple does not deny developers to use high quality technologies for its platforms, apart of the private API, but that's another matter.So I might miss something, but in my opinion, if you work on an Apple platform you get from Apple all the technologies to work on it." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "The channel API really isn't that great. Unlike WebSockets, it's not a bidirectional socket and since it uses http requests to send data to the server, the latency great. It's much better than polling, but still not great. You can't reuse channel client IDs so broadcasting a message to all subscribers requires you to keep track of things on the datastore yourself, not terrible, but it could have been made better." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I seem to notice that if one person get possession of the ball for a few kicks, he tends to kick it in a triangular path?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I seem to notice that if one person get possession of the ball for a few kicks, he tends to kick it in a triangular path?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Hm. There needs to be some sort of throttling on the channel- if you open a console and run\"while(true){\n $.post('/shove/updatepos',\n {\n 'x':50000,\n 'y':50000\n });\n}\" you can really ruin people's good time.I'm going to have it spelling my name by the end of the night." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Hm. There needs to be some sort of throttling on the channel- if you open a console and run\"while(true){\n $.post('/shove/updatepos',\n {\n 'x':50000,\n 'y':50000\n });\n}\" you can really ruin people's good time.I'm going to have it spelling my name by the end of the night." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Add some \"Trash Talk\" buttons and you've got a winner." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Add some \"Trash Talk\" buttons and you've got a winner." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I keep trying to steal the ball and hide it :)" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "It's remarkable how similar this code looks to the monadic way of doing it.For this Kal code... task getUserFriends(userName)\n wait for user from db.users.findOne {name:userName}\n wait for friends from db.friends.find {userId:user.id}\n if user.type is 'power user'\n for parallel friend in friends\n wait for friendsOfFriend from db.friends.find friend\n for newFriend in friendsOfFriend\n friends.push newFriend unless newFriend in friends\n return friends\n\nHere's a pseudo-ish implementation in pseudo-ish Haskell. getUserFriends userName = do\n user <- findUser userName\n friends <- findFriends user\n if (User.type user) == "power user"\n then friends ++ parMap rdeepseq $ (getSecondNodes friends) friends\n else friends\n\t\t\n getSecondNodes firstNodes friend = do\n secondNodes <- findFriends friend\n diff firstNodes secondNodes\n\n\n\nI like the concept of Kal, and I look forward to seeing what people do with it. Regarding syntax, I have to admit that I share the opinions of a few others in terms of preferring symbols over so many keywords, but that's a minor nitpick. Great job!" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This is a project I've been working on in my spare time for a while now and I've finally decided to throw it out there and get some feedback. Do you think the 'wait for' callback syntax is useful? What big features do you think are missing?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This is a project I've been working on in my spare time for a while now and I've finally decided to throw it out there and get some feedback. Do you think the 'wait for' callback syntax is useful? What big features do you think are missing?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "(Don't mean to divert this thread from Kal, but this is on the topic of "callbacks are bad" etc.)For some time now, I've been accumulating async patterns I've needed when writing JS code in my monadic IO.js library[1]. The aim of IO.js is to provide higher levels of thinking about sequences of actions without worrying about whether they are async, and with a rich set of error management tools (for ex, exceptions are turned into recoverable conditions in IO.js).The crux of the "callback hell" problem is, contrary to what many have claimed, is not the nesting that results when the callbacks need to be called in temporal order. That much is straightforward to deal with. The "hell" rears its head when you need to coordinate multiple such sequences that are running concurrently. The composable actions you get from a monadic treatment combined with CSP-style channels, are an expressive framework to build abstractions on (tldr - Haskell's implementation is awesome!).For illustration, the framework in IO.js is flexible enough to implement a node.js web server that can express PG's "Arc challenge" concisely (though that challenge is practically obsolete). Take a look at [2].For a simpler example, `IO.trace` is a straight forward way to generate a trace dump to console of a sequence of asynchronous actions. You don't need to "enable trace" for an entire app. You can choose to trace only a particular sequence. This is pretty neat when debugging. Stack traces are useless when dealing with async processes anyway.[1]: https://github.com/srikumarks/IO.js\n[2]: https://github.com/srikumarks/IO.js/blob/master/examples/arc..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "(Don't mean to divert this thread from Kal, but this is on the topic of "callbacks are bad" etc.)For some time now, I've been accumulating async patterns I've needed when writing JS code in my monadic IO.js library[1]. The aim of IO.js is to provide higher levels of thinking about sequences of actions without worrying about whether they are async, and with a rich set of error management tools (for ex, exceptions are turned into recoverable conditions in IO.js).The crux of the "callback hell" problem is, contrary to what many have claimed, is not the nesting that results when the callbacks need to be called in temporal order. That much is straightforward to deal with. The "hell" rears its head when you need to coordinate multiple such sequences that are running concurrently. The composable actions you get from a monadic treatment combined with CSP-style channels, are an expressive framework to build abstractions on (tldr - Haskell's implementation is awesome!).For illustration, the framework in IO.js is flexible enough to implement a node.js web server that can express PG's "Arc challenge" concisely (though that challenge is practically obsolete). Take a look at [2].For a simpler example, `IO.trace` is a straight forward way to generate a trace dump to console of a sequence of asynchronous actions. You don't need to "enable trace" for an entire app. You can choose to trace only a particular sequence. This is pretty neat when debugging. Stack traces are useless when dealing with async processes anyway.[1]: https://github.com/srikumarks/IO.js\n[2]: https://github.com/srikumarks/IO.js/blob/master/examples/arc..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Excellent work. Especially useful since it appears to throw exceptions. That means it's a step up from Iced Coffeescript.The syntax is a little verbose and might be shortened to something like C#: `user = await db.users.findOne {name:userName}`. Would be a lot more clear to me." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Excellent work. Especially useful since it appears to throw exceptions. That means it's a step up from Iced Coffeescript.The syntax is a little verbose and might be shortened to something like C#: `user = await db.users.findOne {name:userName}`. Would be a lot more clear to me." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I suggest to use ..= (or ...=) in place of the keywords 'wait for', and 'from'. Less words, and '...' traditionally means 'to be continued', or 'wait for a while'.For this Kal code: task getUserFriends (userName)\n wait for user from db.users.findOne {name:userName}\n wait for friends from db.friends.find {userId:user.id}\n return friends\n\nwould become: task getUserFriends (userName)\n user ..= db.users.findOne {name:userName}\n friends ..= db.friends.find {userId:user.id}\n return friends" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Why not just have the EDA tools understand (or have plugins that do) how version control systems work and provide diff'ing abilities? The EDA tool would have to provide the diff'ing ability but have API hooks for interfacing with version control systems.LabVIEW can do diffs and it integrates with version control systems. LabVIEW is almost completely visual and it'll show you what changed between versions if you ask." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The Upverter (YC W11) guys are working on a lot of these issues - their tool aims to be a sort of github for electronics, with browser based EDA tools:http://upverter.com/" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The Upverter (YC W11) guys are working on a lot of these issues - their tool aims to be a sort of github for electronics, with browser based EDA tools:http://upverter.com/" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If someone's looking for a really cool project to make a name for themselves, this seems like a great candidate. I want to see a git GUI that has a fully integrated diff viewer for EAGLE files, with tracking of electronic subsystems/components as first-class entities.Come on people, it's just PostScript! Get to it!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If someone's looking for a really cool project to make a name for themselves, this seems like a great candidate. I want to see a git GUI that has a fully integrated diff viewer for EAGLE files, with tracking of electronic subsystems/components as first-class entities.Come on people, it's just PostScript! Get to it!" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Version control for schematics is cool.I don't really get what they're saying with \"visual diffs\". Normal practice is to have a side-bar with a list of differences between versions. That makes it pretty clear what was added or removed. Using colours kind of fails because (for just a two sided PCB) you have two copper sides, one (maybe two) component sides, and these already use a bunch of different colour.Whatever you do with \"visual diffs\" needs to work in monochrome - you have people working with traditional blueprints, or with mono printers. Heck, you still (in the 21st century!) have people using fax machines.This all sounds really negative, but it isn't. It's a great idea, I just hope they can make it work." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Version control for schematics is cool.I don't really get what they're saying with \"visual diffs\". Normal practice is to have a side-bar with a list of differences between versions. That makes it pretty clear what was added or removed. Using colours kind of fails because (for just a two sided PCB) you have two copper sides, one (maybe two) component sides, and these already use a bunch of different colour.Whatever you do with \"visual diffs\" needs to work in monochrome - you have people working with traditional blueprints, or with mono printers. Heck, you still (in the 21st century!) have people using fax machines.This all sounds really negative, but it isn't. It's a great idea, I just hope they can make it work." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I wish there was a visual diff tool for function block programming in PLCs. I am moving more and more towards the \"structured text\" type PLC programming just so I can get a sensible change history." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "When I saw the DynamoDB pricing, I assumed the setup was something along the lines of \"N=3, writes go to all replicas and wait for 2 responses, consistent reads go to 2 replicas, inconsistent reads go to 1 replica\". Given that DynamoDB is using SSDs, I don't see why they would need to broadcast read requests to all replicas -- that's only useful if you have high variability in your read latency.Someone who wanted an interesting research project might be able to pull back the covers on DynamoDB a bit by issuing a large number of requests, very carefully measuring the response latency curves for consistent and inconsistent reads, and looking at what model fits them best." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This is just the tip of the iceberg with DynamoDB's pricing issues. Based on my understanding of how their pricing works, here are two more major issues:-You have to provision throughput for each table individually, so you basically have to pay for the maximum throughput you expect for every single table all the time (you can only reduce your throughput once per day as far as I understand). This means that adding a new table can be pretty expensive (even if your total throughput isn't increasing at all).-Each unit of throughput gives you one 1kb write/read per second. If you exceed your throughput for a second, the call fails. This means that if you want to support the ability to write 50kb (like a \"notes\" field or something), you need to constantly pay for 50 write units even if you won't ever realistically use that much. And you have to do that for every single tableAs the OP points out, it's all about FUD. I'm so terrified of exceeding my throughput allotment that I'm forced to pay for an order of magnitude more resources than I will actually use. This seems to go against everything AWS is about." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This is just the tip of the iceberg with DynamoDB's pricing issues. Based on my understanding of how their pricing works, here are two more major issues:-You have to provision throughput for each table individually, so you basically have to pay for the maximum throughput you expect for every single table all the time (you can only reduce your throughput once per day as far as I understand). This means that adding a new table can be pretty expensive (even if your total throughput isn't increasing at all).-Each unit of throughput gives you one 1kb write/read per second. If you exceed your throughput for a second, the call fails. This means that if you want to support the ability to write 50kb (like a \"notes\" field or something), you need to constantly pay for 50 write units even if you won't ever realistically use that much. And you have to do that for every single tableAs the OP points out, it's all about FUD. I'm so terrified of exceeding my throughput allotment that I'm forced to pay for an order of magnitude more resources than I will actually use. This seems to go against everything AWS is about." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This post brings up this interesting divide on how you price any of these services. In particular, with software (and movies, and whatever), we know that the marginal cost of producing another copy is low if not zero, and hence in some sense intellectual property can be priced arbitrarily by creators, since there aren't nice curves to determine pricing. This is often the same argument for why IP protection is reasonable.At the same time, clearly this is not the case for something like EC2, where the marginal cost for another machine isn't necessarily 0, but it is true for Dynamo in some sense. Are we in a world where one can't choose to mix the model?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This post brings up this interesting divide on how you price any of these services. In particular, with software (and movies, and whatever), we know that the marginal cost of producing another copy is low if not zero, and hence in some sense intellectual property can be priced arbitrarily by creators, since there aren't nice curves to determine pricing. This is often the same argument for why IP protection is reasonable.At the same time, clearly this is not the case for something like EC2, where the marginal cost for another machine isn't necessarily 0, but it is true for Dynamo in some sense. Are we in a world where one can't choose to mix the model?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "To be fair, they're not explicitly charging twice as much for consistent reads. You get consistent reads until you exceed your provisioned read amount, which unfortunately is measured in these odd units of \"read capacity\"). It's not clear (to me, anyway) if the 2x number represents something accurate about resource usage or if it's just a provisioning guideline.That said, what provisioned capacity means in DynamoDB is pretty opaque. Great point about the utility of latency information for developers." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "To be fair, they're not explicitly charging twice as much for consistent reads. You get consistent reads until you exceed your provisioned read amount, which unfortunately is measured in these odd units of \"read capacity\"). It's not clear (to me, anyway) if the 2x number represents something accurate about resource usage or if it's just a provisioning guideline.That said, what provisioned capacity means in DynamoDB is pretty opaque. Great point about the utility of latency information for developers." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Isn't DynamoDB backed by SSDs? Perhaps that is the reason for the increased cost." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I got excited, and then saw it was a blog post, not a repo. Which, I think, is an interesting reaction, itself.Completely separately, this looks like a great tutorial. I've been dragging my heels about getting into OS X/iOS development, and this just might be the kick in the pants I need." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This might actually finally close the loop on doing some solid mobile development from my iPad (through Prompt or the like, of course). Not that I'd do heavy-duty coding on the road, but it'd be nice to try once or twice." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This might actually finally close the loop on doing some solid mobile development from my iPad (through Prompt or the like, of course). Not that I'd do heavy-duty coding on the road, but it'd be nice to try once or twice." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "For me the most interesting find here was fruitstrap, hadn't seen that before, and I had been looking few years ago!That'd make automated testing on device a lot more promising, and on cursory googling, people have used fruitstrap with jenkins." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "For me the most interesting find here was fruitstrap, hadn't seen that before, and I had been looking few years ago!That'd make automated testing on device a lot more promising, and on cursory googling, people have used fruitstrap with jenkins." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "That is nice, but I use vim. Any tutorial on how to do this from vim/MacVim?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "That is nice, but I use vim. Any tutorial on how to do this from vim/MacVim?" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "It's just amazing. From this introduction, I learned how to generate TAGS and feed it to Emacs for the first time, and make up a custom \"anything buffer\" to capture any lines that I wish.Awesome X one million billion times.Thank you, roupam." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Heh, I'm so old I remember being on the first mailing list on the Internet back in 1972-73, which was (suitably meta) a mailing list about mail programs & related issues.(It was based out of BBN, whence came the first email.)The first mail servers were rather primitive: they were just (pre-TCP/IP) FTP-like servers that would open your local mailbox (on TOPS-10 in our case, at HARV-10) and append to it. Lots of interesting locking issues..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "> And most people's domains hadn't reached the point where just using initials was unworkable.Seems like my first email address (especially university VAX accounts) back then were even more cryptic and included some bizarre Godzilla reference like [email protected]." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "> And most people's domains hadn't reached the point where just using initials was unworkable.Seems like my first email address (especially university VAX accounts) back then were even more cryptic and included some bizarre Godzilla reference like [email protected]." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I think Gmail/Apple Mail's message threading system should be included. When I think about the pre-thread days of having to read 16 separate emails because 8 corporate douchebags all responded needlessly to the same original message, it makes me appreciate email threading even more." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I think Gmail/Apple Mail's message threading system should be included. When I think about the pre-thread days of having to read 16 separate emails because 8 corporate douchebags all responded needlessly to the same original message, it makes me appreciate email threading even more." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Search isn't a general replacement for folders. If you're using folders to try and find things, then yes, search is better for finding than you doing classification yourself.But filtering things into folders is very useful for other basic forms of categorization, such as by identity (if you have multiple email addresses), or by mailing list (mental context switching is hard) or by priority (I do mine by three categories - the actual inbox, which I empty regularly, emails that will need replies after something else has been done, and everything else)." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Search isn't a general replacement for folders. If you're using folders to try and find things, then yes, search is better for finding than you doing classification yourself.But filtering things into folders is very useful for other basic forms of categorization, such as by identity (if you have multiple email addresses), or by mailing list (mental context switching is hard) or by priority (I do mine by three categories - the actual inbox, which I empty regularly, emails that will need replies after something else has been done, and everything else)." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "What about attachments? AFAIK attachments weren't part of the initial implementation of email.Today though, emailing attachments to small groups is mainstream. This is what many people use as THE form of controlled document distribution and collaboration.Will improving this aspect of email be the next evolution?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Curious as to why someone sat down and added this line to that file: Allow: /maps?hq=http://maps.google.com/help/maps/directions/biking/mapleft.kml&ie=UTF8&ll=37.687624,-122.319717&spn=0.346132,0.727158&z=11&lci=bike&dirflg=b&f=d" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "See also: http://www.google.com/humans.txt" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "See also: http://www.google.com/humans.txt" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Mine is more awesome: http://logotype.se/robots.txt" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Mine is more awesome: http://logotype.se/robots.txt" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "What a weird entry...https://www.google.com/maps?hq=http://maps.google.com/help/m..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "What a weird entry...https://www.google.com/maps?hq=http://maps.google.com/help/m..." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "http://www.google.com/baraza/enWhat a weird little product. It's like Yahoo Answers, but somehow with even less sorting or categorization." }