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It's not like Google is some magical unicorn place though. It's boring soul-crushing big corp job with overwhelming politics. Seeing smartest people waste their time on this was ve…

So I guess this is slower than JavaScriptCore and you have to get commercial license to actually embed it. Why would one choose it at all?

State of the art development workflows fail to utilize possibilities of high-resolution 2d displays (using concepts are rooted in times of plaintext terminals). So I don't see VR c…

Hi Evan, I own small consultancy and am an iOS / OS X developer myself. We are in Ukraine, so 10k / year goes much further here. We can help you with support, e.g. for percentage o…

IMO the problem isn't that there are less resources dedicated to open source stuff than to commercial projects. The problem is that there is much less effort and especially polish …

Thanks for great paper, it would definitely help me organise my thoughts as I'm building similar project. Here is my blog for it – http://spreadsheets-on-steroids.tumblr.com My ide…

Publicly visible and flexible pricing. Not $10k+ per year as Google Maps API.

For anyone interested in Vim-like editors with Mac UI, I suggest trying Vico – https://github.com/vicoapp/vico It is completely native, supports TextMate bundles and is scriptable …

I think even more important question is "what essential dev tools you've purchased that had some sort of open source equivalent". As for me, last thing I remember – I've purchased …

To some extent maybe yes, but my main idea isn't to make better spreadsheets. I want to take direct manipulation of data present in spreadsheets and make it more universal. Somethi…

My current plan is to make runtime platform open-source, but sell hosted development tools as SaaS. While software developers don't usually buy platform stuff like compilers, libra…

Got your point about being less technical. Also I agree that project is currently more about research than building actual product. (1) There are 2 main pain points: 1) for program…

Unfortunately I don't have a co-founder yet. Started working on the idea not so long enough.

See my application on following link, everything is the same as submitted (except few items marked as REDACTED and typo fixes): http://spreadsheets-on-steroids.tumblr.com/post/8290…

Got rejected. My startup is visual programming system ala Spreadsheets + Zapier, here is my YC application – http://spreadsheets-on-steroids.tumblr.com/post/82903500034/... Would l…

My startup is visual programming system ala Spreadsheets + Zapier, here is my YC application – http://spreadsheets-on-steroids.tumblr.com/post/82903500034/... Would like some feedb…