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Haha, seriously I don't know why they don't just offer free email,cloud storage,and messaging... it would have to be orders of magnitude cheaper than what they are doing now.

I'm always surprised to find out that even great writers were skeptical of their masterpieces. I wonder if it is false humility, or genuine lack of self efficacy

Fantastically generous post. I wish more engineers were as publicly honest about their own, and their team's failures so that other engineers and engineering teams can learn from t…

I recently got back into chess, and I wanted to play chess with a strong engine on my chromebook, but all of the clients were slow, didn't work offline, required java, flash, etc..…

All this will do is to hurt the smaller web retailers who will inevitably have to track and pay sales tax. Some of whom are already on the brink and will have to trim their payroll…

Gardens have elements that are impossible to control so gardeners have to deal with randomness. With code, there is no randomness, the outcome of a piece of software will be exactl…

The most important thing for founders to remember, even if they are under the gun is that keeping employees working longer hours for a sustained duration will result in a less reli…

My shell doesn't support color ;-)

never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence...

The ad model is truly dying, and I agree that facebook's current revenue model is a placeholder, but facebook has so much cash that they can buy a real business when one comes alon…

(a) 2 (CycleMetrics, Mides IDE) (b) 2 paid (c) Not much, web application, twitter account, getsatisfaction support, a bit of adwords (d) (CycleMetrics) ~ $10 / month, (Mides IDE) p…

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mides-ide/id284965983?mt=8

Hey HN, I've been grinding away on this app for a couple of years, trying to build the best mobile IDE that I could on the iPhone / iPod Touch. I have recently ported it to iPad an…

I do wish more IDEs would integrate JSLint. I even put it into my iPhone PHP IDE Mides.

I wish I could say that I didn't fall victim to this sort of thinking all through school, but I'd be lying if I say that I hadn't. There is indeed a culture of not pushing to your …

Totally biased toward the iPhone. Nothing about Android and Java, being that there are nearly as many Java developers as JavaScript developers. This may as well have been an Apple …

Google was really broken for me about 30 mins ago, in San Mateo, but it seems to be back now

Google deals with this situation pretty well on Android. You have 16 MB of heap to work with, and you have to deal with their garbage collection. I agree with the person writing th…