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You’re operating with massive hindsight bias here. It wasn’t a foregone conclusion in 2007 that iOS and Android were going to win. BlackBerry (and indeed many of the players you li…

This is 100% the reason. I watched BlackBerry fail from the inside and there’s always been an extremely vocal minority of former BB users who want to go back to a physical keyboard…

MacOS is a brand that Apple owns, so that makes sense? It’s like saying in the market of Tesla cars there is only one manufacturer.

My mind immediately went to surveying the participants in a Skinner box on their perceived well being. It would be incredible if people DIDN'T self-report feeling great after pulli…

Any "competitive advantage" gained by these points will be more than wiped out by the extreme difficulty companies will have attracting talent if they don't offer remote flexibilit…

Have you tried the recently added container support? There's a component provided called the Lambda Runtime Interface Emulator that exposes an API for the locally running container…

This sounds interesting. Would you consider Unreal rather than Unity?

I eventually found it by searching "burner phone". Fyi, your iTunes link on the site is broken for me, giving a generic "can't connect to iTunes Store". Thanks :)

Awesome idea. You don't seem to be listed in non-US app stores (Canada, in my case). Any plans to be available internationally, or at least in the same countries served by Twilio?

great idea. this is actually how my wife and i met. no joke. i had just ended a long relationship and changed my status on facebook. she noticed and started messaging me.

Love the idea. Chore tracking would be a really cool feature I think.

My favorite: "Don't jam your computer -- download this screen saver, and never again will you need to suffer the indignity of burnt phospor." That's some truly awful copy.

At the risk of sounding trolly -- I hope the next big thing, US origin or not, will be able to handle more traffic than whatever this is.

If you like hacking in Lua, I've been enjoying Luna. It's a little IDE with an embedded Lua interpreter. The interface is weird but it works.

Doesn't bypassing the SQL parser kind of make this a NOSQL solution?

Sure, it's volatile. But do you think Justin Bieber chose BlackBerry because he wants one, or because he got a huge paycheck to use it? Product placement does not end at television…

The Bieber effect is an important point. I think RIM realized that they don't need bleeding edge tech to stay competitive. That's how you sell to people like Bob Lefsetz and David …