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Maybe not super useful to HN readers. But your parents? They could build a website with Sparkle.

Realistically 1) most people don't use a PIN code, 2) those that do use their birthday MMDD or DDMM. If you think someone where you work/live might have to tools to lift your finge…

Do you believe chess Grand Masters exist? They're blind to invalid moves, they don't even see strategically penalizing moves. "10x engineer" sounds like a requirement a recruiter w…

A single good programmer does the job of 5, and you can pay her 2x. That's not magic, it's just a very refined skill set, focus and no communication barrier of multiple people. So …

Counterpoint (old but relevant): http://blog.wilshipley.com/2011/04/success-and-farming-vs-mi... The article paints non-startup guys as parasites. That's so needlessly polarizing. …

Clearly stackexchange is showing pro-db bias. I'm a huge fan of unstructured data in filesystems as well, that's how the service behind my prototypesapp.com is built. I also happen…

Dude. You won't hear that story from VCs, they want a 100x exit, and a kid with his "brilliant" ideas is their best bet at catching media attention.

Whether something like this ever becomes widespread depends on WebGL becoming popular, which in turn depends on WebGL becoming sufficiently secure. In an interview on the Debug pod…

Very Long HN Thread Expected to discuss VSRE to death.

This is definitely not the best way to base a marketing campaign on privacy issues. That said consumer products are traditionally ad supported, and regular consumer appear to toler…

Amen.

You have to think of the constraints that informed the original design. There's very little horizontal space on iPhone and iPod touch, 320 points to fit a descriptive label and the…

The code is, appropriately, in the WTF directory.

To which the counterpoint is "awesome UX". You'll never get that with web tech. Sandofsky works at Twitter BTW. You are probably right about most of the problems, though how much o…

http://sandofsky.com/blog/apps-vs-the-web.html http://sandofsky.com/blog/shell-apps.html Cough.

I think you need to know enough of both to be excellent at one or the other. Design freedom and constraints in software come from what code allows. Code structure is all about the …

The Sandbox makes me sad. Remove exploits of a single poorly written app spreading to the rest of my Mac and taking over make me sadder.

The "regular people" I know who own an Android phone bought it because it was cheaper, and in fact have a sub $150 thing (unlocked, retail). They also are regularly out of pre-paid…

The problem with attracting "developers" with a limited skillset is you're asking for low quality applications. I'm not against the idea, and if this kind of tool attracted people …

NoSQL might be hype. Let's get specific. Cassandra eliminates the SQL database single point of failure and hard to replace masters via a lose sync, "eventually consistent" protocol…