Viewing profile — adammarkey

Although I'm not in Beijing, it's amazing that Hacker News hasn't been blocked by the "Great Firewall". Any bets on how long it will take before the Chinese government shuts this o…

Pronouncing "Java" like "Yava" is definitely a Dutch thing - I was building a Java based financial system for a bank in the Netherlands and it took a while to get used to the way t…

Unfortunately the Hero looks like it has some "lag" issues when navigating around the screen in the production models out in Europe right now. I hope it's a software fix to make it…

Being a large company doesn't mean you can "easily replicate" things. The major reason startups can wiggle their way into a market and become a player is because large companies ca…

I honestly think healthcare / health insurance is a major reason. It's hard to be "ramen AND medical bills profitable" if you or one of your founders has an urgent medical issue wh…

Link bait title. I had my hopes up for something juicy only to find out something I already knew... government employees build crappy software.

HTML 5 is part of the death-recipe for these native RIA technologies, but there is one other major missing piece at the moment - a fast and dependable javascript engine that can be…

As we all know, XML is just another word for Productivity! One less thing to compile and throw those pesky errors before we put it straight into production. I can't wait to show th…

Thanks! "Photo-slide shows" on the web need to die, anytime I see one, I never click on it. These ad-spam on these things is nearing the annoyance levels of most porn sites..

My hard drive is already filled with MILFS and performs quite well for my requirements. /me ducks and covers

I think optimism is an essential core value (or characteristic) of a successful company even though it might inhibit the "fail fast" methodology you speak of. Optimism when kept in…

Totally agree with you. I for one don't want my browser knowing "who I am" - I prefer to let the applications I use know that.

I disagree, it should be a "killer" because flash uses a closed source for-profit runtime from adobe. The javascript standard is free to use and implement and doesn't require me to…

The heavyweight category needs to be split up. Technologies like flex / silverlight / javafx / open laszlo use compiled binaries to run their applications via a browser plugin (fla…

Since Flash is being threatened by Javascript, it looks like Adobe is being forced to band together with another threatened company (Facebook being threatened by Twitter). I'm on t…

Unless there's a joke that I'm not getting with this link, how did this article end up on the front page?

Hans Reiser ended up a murderer too. Be careful not to follow his path too closely :)

Looks like facebook just upped their ante in it's game to squash twitter.

The color contrast on the non-bolded blue text seems off and tends to hurt my eyes in FF3. Otherwise it's pretty easy to figure out what the site is supposed to do.

Maybe Oracle will buy this now too.

Yeah and because they are a "virtual" office, where do they put the ping pong table? What are they going to do to pass the time!? Oh wait...

Frankly I don't care about its w3c standards and fast JS - those are problems people are working on, and it's not the interesting part about this browser. It's not meant to be a "p…

Agreed. It's a great example of the saying: "It takes one to know one."

Did that strip mall happen to be in Canton, Ohio? I was there too!!