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If OSX 10.7 is as well received as the iPhone 4 then OSX will do just fine.

Not every update needs to be revolutionary.
Allowing such easy changing of the homepage is a great idea - it helps contextualise what the app does into something that might be useful to a user really fast. Good luck!
It's a lot easier to reduce the price than to raise it!
I don't know how many sports fans we have around these parts but Twitter has become an outstanding source for breaking sports news. At the trade deadline for the NBA and NHL last season, news was breaking on Twitter well before the major networks were announcing it. Some of the best beat writers are on Twitter posting major announcements before they even bother to write a story for their own newspaper. I would pretty willingly pay to keep having access to that information.
May I take this opportunity to remind that the only drug known to be relatively safe is caffeine.
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That is the true nature of cloud computing: lack of understanding (easy to use) combined with unconditional trust (they hold your data, after all). <sarcasm> But putting it this way tend to spoil the hype. </sarcasm>
Good point. Friends & family can always invest.
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Great points. But, of course, the other side of that is you charge too much for a product out the gate that no one's willing to pay for, there's no hype at all and you lose the motivation necessary to make it worth paying for.

Then again, I'm really glad Mocksup appears to be worth this discussion. Since this is a side-project for both of us I'd much rather you guys fuss at our pricing then just about anything else!
Good Job! The site looks great.
>Microsoft is really getting their shit together. Win8, if it's even a fraction of what is planned, is going to change things permanently. This is a good thing considering Steve Jobs seems to have given up on the desktop as of this most recent WWDC.

Honestly this kind of thing is exactly what makes me think they don't "have their shit together". They're going to run out and say "look everyone! We have a desktop OS that's slightly better than OSX!" right as most people have moved off desktops.

Seriously. Look at what most people do. How much time does the average computer user spend consuming? And how much time producing? Just from the hip I would put this at 80/20 but it might be even more slanted than that. So does Grandma really need a whole PC to email her bridge group and surf the web for recipes? And one that has a "reset this PC" button? Why does she need to know any of this stuff?

What Steve said wasn't that Mac will be giving up on the desktop. He was just acknowledging that in the future it's going to play a vastly smaller role. It's still going to need to be really good because those of us that produce on it will be powering the mobile/appliance devices. I don't want to develop on an iPad but I like consuming with it.

Microsoft just doesn't seem to grasp this somehow and keeps trying to win a battlefield that everyone else realizes will just get less relevant as time goes on. Are they just concentrating on business users? MS had them at NT.

You can say "oh but we've got that covered, look at the new <insert newest MS mobile OS here>" but it doesn't exist right now. All the buzz I see/hear is about iPhone, Anroid and Palm. Is MS really committed to mobile to the level they need to be? If it is I don't think they're getting it across very well.

Funny enough, MS does have a nice install base of a an appliance device: the X box. Are they planning an App store for it (not a game store, an app store)? Can I purchase songs that sync with my media player?
I like the concept. it's not clear that you have to use an offline editor though, I first thought you could do the mockup work in my browser. maybe I missed this, but can you add notes to the mockups you put online, for example to guide a user through the design? I noticed an "Add note" feature in the screenshot of the editor, but it's not clear if those get copied to the online shared version.
Startups can show the way in Corporate Social responsibility to the rest of the business community. Startups are the new blood, they carry the new 21st century DNA, with new usage and culture. They are the ones bold and visionary enough to think that selflessness is good "in the end" for our own interest. Startups today in their core have to follow the socially responsible values to be successful: value driven vs BS, open vs closed, fair, sharing (open source), admitting when they scewed up, accountable, listening to people (employee as well as customer), and knowing that if it creates something that people want, "in the end" they will do well financially. To be successful, funded by worldclass angels/VCs, become "thunder lizzard", they cannot afford to be shortsighted, they have to think big and global.

That means changing the world not just thinking money. Tim Ferriss just said: "I’d rather create a thousand millionaires than become a billionaire." on his blog post about "real world MBA"

It is not about forcing people to spend money on fake impulsive need they don't really have. In marketing the same battle goes on between the sophists mercenaries and the Socrates. Just going for the profit first vs value first is bad karma. Because it is denying the fact that we are in a system (Cf Ted talk "how I fell in love with a fish"). It is about caring for people and the ecosystem we all live in. We are part of a very big alive system and startups by definition we are part of a system. To be innovative startups embrace complexity, they show the rest of the business community that business can be part of the product life cycle of Life.
Put People and Planet first, it is "in the end" good for Profit.
People and Planet are the greatest positive feedback loops.
Let's not wait for anybody else but us to show this in everything we do.
Startups are by definition pioneers. Unleashing People and Planet positive feedback loops is the new frontier, the Karma frontier.
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This says "paypal upgrade calculator", which makes it sound more biased than it really is - it's actually a very fair comparison.
No offense meant, but next time try the "reply" link under the comment. Threaded discussion boards obviate the need for @username-style responses.
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Foursquare – definitely not, but then again I don't use it. Maybe someone who actually plays the game would.

Twitter — possibly. It depends if twitter had the same pervasiveness as it does today. In reality, that's probably impossible: twitter's ubiquity is due in large part to the lower barrier of entrance. So it seems that paying for it reduces the utility of the product and, therefore, makes it not worth the money.

In summary: no.
Don't waste you precious energy to worry about 'what should somebody do' ;-) Have a cold beer, go for a walk think about yourself ;-) Google won't change the world if we don't buy it...
If only it could be as successful as Google's Twitter competitor, Google Buzz!
Surely if the language specification calls semicolons optional then any compressor worth its salt should honor that? The YUI Compressor, at least, copes with semicolon-devoid Javascript just fine.
Science moves too slow for my own good. Ship me a supply of gel and I'll DIY. If I wind up growing three new teeth as a weird side-effect, I wouldn't care. Anything to get rid of that damned primitive drill!
Yes, notes show up on the version of the mockup you're sharing. I'll try to make that clearer, thanks.
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Not to be the Linux fanboy, but with Ubuntu, I am usually set up in 20 minutes and up-to-date in 30, if the bandwidth is nice.

I am considering building a metapackage just for me, rbanffy-desktop, to set up eveything on my box automagically upon invoking "aptitude install rbanffy-desktop" (or selecting it from the GUI installer). That way I would be up and running before I am back from lunch. Maybe I will need two, rbanffy-repos to set up 3rd party repos (VirtualBox, Skype, Google, PPAs) and one to do the heavy-lifting. Sounds like a good fun project.
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I am all for foursquare charging its users. I suspect that would strongly reduce the amount of spam I get from friends.
"Guy takes cocktail of drugs every day for 10 years and winds up with mental problems - of course! It must be the ecstasy that did it!"

I seriously question the scientific method of anyone who draws any conclusions from this account.
It would be less fun.

Also, I always could run away with the money after mortally wounding the company.
When people ask me why I prefer Ruby over Perl, I generally ad-lib something like this:

"Perl is kinda like that girl you dated back in high school; she was pretty at the time, but you were less knowledgeable and the pool of possibilities was much smaller. You're always glad to hear she's doing well, but that doesn't mean you want to get back together. Instead, you now have this gorgeous Japanese girl named Ruby that you met in college... she's really flexible, in ways you didn't even know Perl could have been."
Twitter I might pay for, but it would have to be either much more reliable, or distributed. Maybe not even then. Publishing status updates that anyone can subscribe to, and having awesome lines of communication with folks I'd otherwise never speak to is awesome, but it seems there's something missing before I'd pay for it.

Foursquare: Nope. It seems to me that the core of Foursquare is a feature that can be replicated on any site, and the only thing that makes it unique is the badges and the potential deals with retailers. Neither of which I'm willing to pay for.
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If Microsoft could pull it off, the ability to write both C# and F# inline in the same class, or at least the same file, would really be the best of both worlds. I'm not a languages guy, so I don't know if this idea is practical, but like everything else, it probably is "possible".
Thanks for posting this, its very relevant to what I am currently working on.
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From the end of the article: "That said, regenerating a tooth from within would only be useful in a relatively small number of cases. Most cavities would still need to be drilled and filled."

Still cool, I guess.
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I am self-taught, and I mainly use ruby. I also do all the font-end stuff well but I am not a designer.

Unfortunately I do not think that I have very strong areas CS wise, although I tend to pick up things quickly - last job I did was aggregating data from multiple types of databases, dealing with varying latencies, and presenting the results in an interface that made sense. Before that I was making a small bot for a flash game and I learned about things like minimax, alpha beta pruning, etc. Learning is a very strong source of motivation for me.

I guess this reply is also a good place to put down some of the ideas I've had lately.

- Improve workplace conditions by aggregating work experience and satisfation levels from employees; extract low-hanging fruits from the data. Use scale to improve results quality. Use that same data to advise job seekers as to which company would be good for them. Use game mechanics to get employees to contribute, and also game mechanics to get employers to implement the advice given by the system.

- Make a game distribution platform that takes a lot less money from the developers (last time I checked the margins were around 30%). They would hopefully all fly there.

- Location-aware shopping site. Many people around here regularly check nearby small clothing stores for fresh stuff. The app would be a minimalist display of the latest arrivals in their neighborhoods (google maps integration etc etc).
The site looks fantastic, great work. Have you looked into sketchflow? It's kinda/sorta a competitor, and kinda/sorta something you could incorporate into your site. I could see a demand for a nice, easy, secure place to host sketchflow mockups. All they require is an html page and a silverlight xap bundle. (sketchflow is bloody fantastic btw, I think it's going to make some serious inroads into how people make mock ups)
Errr, I can deny the advantages of good OO design (OOSE specifically: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_software_engine...).

There's no denying its power, and I'm sure it's superior for some applications, but the inherent mixing of persistent state and behavior in objects is pretty much irreconcilable with functional programming as I understand the latter.

For example, to me perhaps the single most useful OOSE artifact is the sequence diagram (UML version here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_diagram); in the non-side effecting functional programming world you have much less to keep track of in that manner.
Wow, that's pretty.

I like this sort of advertisement. It's just a useful thing that people using PayPal will discover at some point and start playing around with. Naturally, they'll realize that they should get themselves a merchant account and... hey whaddayaknow, that link up at the top takes me to a place where I can get one.

I think the earliest and most successful implementation of this idea was that "What's your political affiliation" test from the 90's that framed all the questions so that you'd end up discovering that you were a Libertarian. Who knew? Better follow this link that tells me who I should be voting for...
It's nearly impossible to have a meaningful pricing discussion, because initial pricing is guessing. But it does feel like you may be leaving money on the table.

You (should) know your market better than anyone else, but be careful on competing with price. Competing with price is sometimes a crutch for actual marketing and a wishful shortcut in demonstration of value. Because, as mostly hackers, generally speaking we aren't great at marketing. And so, subconciously IMO what happens is we think "i'll let someone else market the idea with their higher price product, and then i'll swoop in with the cheaper offering".

Unfortunately, it doesn't work out that storybook. Markets aren't that transparent, and there is always an asymmetry in information. You're going to have to demonstrate real value and claw your way into relevance. So initially you will have to do a lot of "hand-to-hand combat" style marketing. And find key differentiators you can lead with that isn't price.

How about pricing it at $49 and then running a promo for initial new users? First 100 customers get it at $19?

As an aside, I spent $79 on Balsamiq last year. I think that is the most I've spent on software in the last two years (I stick with mostly open source / freeware). But it was a no-brainer for me... their marketing materials convinced me that the ROI was there. The value for me was probably much higher, but past $99 you enter some psychological pricing barriers.
The UFC ranked over NY Times? While I profess a fondness for the first, I'm very surprised that more tech savvy folks haven't made it over to NY Times at least once to Like. I mean, I go there all the time following a few news aggregators.
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I'm not too sure how this would fare. People already have trust issues with Google, not sure how willing they would be to give Google (more) access to their lives.
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The problem being is that the people in Step 1 aren't the same in Step 4 and you are misrepresenting the people in Step 2.

It's more like:

Step 1) Alternative medicine quacks say that their special goop can regenerate teeth.

Step 2) Actual researchers, scientists, and doctors investigate the goop and discover it's flour, water, and sugar, with some ginseng thrown in. And that such a combination would never be able to regenerate teeth.

Step 3) Inspired by the idea of tooth regenerating goop, people with a knowledge of chemistry, dentistry, and biology work on making a goop that can when combined with the materials commonly found in human mouths will begin to calcify and harden.

Step 4) Tooth goop gets announced to public.

Step 5) Alternative medicine quacks act like they were the foundational research the led to this advance.

Here's something I've heard once: "You know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine".
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I assume you've looked at google voice's mobile site then. It's way more stripped down.
Exactly, I love this type of advertising. It's useful, pretty, non-intrusive and works well. It's the same way Mint advertises by having large infographics. They're pretty to look at and advertise Mint at the same time.
Knowing functional programming surely makes you a better programmer, as knowing lisp do (even if you could never use in your projects).

But when I see post like this I always think to Fred Brooks' "There's no silver bullet" paper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet).
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Does p = np or not?

That's what I hope we'll find out tomorrow. Too hopeful?
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I would say that even more people have trust issues with Facebook, and look how far that's gotten them.

As long as Google starts off with a gentle, opt-in approach (to stem the problems that came from Buzz), I think they'll be successful.
Not unless you back it up with evidence.
Well, the title's a bit of a tautology, but it does seem that a bit of the glow has worn off of Java (to those that were captivated by it in the first place anyway). Functional programming seems to be trending upwards too.

I agree with the general assertion that hard core OO developers (Java and .Net folks) will need to start learning some new mental models of programming to keep adding relevance. I think we will start solving some harder problems that are intractable with traditional OO mechanisms.
"Everything is an OLE server" is the closest Microsoft concept. And it is too - files on NTFS filesystems are a lot more than just files, only (nearly) no-one uses all the fancy stuff, and it's not really exposed through Explorer or CMD. You don't really need file extensions, for example, but everyone is so used to them.

The Registry arguably is no more or less sensible than /etc full of cryptically named config files and executable scripts, all in slightly different formats...
I'd feel safer in the hands of google than facebook to be honest.

I have a recurring nightmare that one day, all the world's software developers will be facebook/apple employees and that startups will be limited to the facebook/apple platform, made by facebook/apple subsidiaries, and will only be available to those with a few million to throw at the advertising...
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I think this could be a worthwhile comparison if tested on a platform where the in-memory store is as safe as traditional hard-disk storage, say a machine with some form of static (non-volatile) RAM for main memory.

Thus the question would be, does the performance advantage of VoltDB's approach outweigh the penalty of static RAM performance?
I'd suggest starting conversations via email and twitter with influencers or possible customers in your market. Show you have something interesting and unique worth writing a blog post or tweet about.

For additional advice, this would be a good question to post to Quora.com.
> Facebook’s self serve ad business is exploding, say our sources, and may be significantly more robust than even the most favorable third party forecasts predict.

Is it just me or is this a silly, meaningless sentence. Are you predicting it is more robust? Then that makes you the most favorable third party. If not, and if you have no evidence to offer, then why mention this mere possibility?
Someone figured out how to make movie-creation so easy that even people who might otherwise be mere comment-posters on YouTube can now make videos - just by typing - without sacrificing that YouTube-comment quality. Worse, this can't be un-invented.
It would continue to appear that you are submitting every other article from your blog.
Even if it is fair I only get two points from this article (and their product page):

* A system which holds all data in memory is faster than a system which uses memory and disks. True, but not really news.

* If you leave out features your implementation can be faster (e.g. they only support transactions which span a single stored procedure). Again .. no news here.

Something else I've missed?
Jobs only said there was no chance Google would leapfrog them, and that WWDC would not disappoint (which it didn't). No one expected iPhone 4 to be more of a game changer than the first iPhone.
It's not about how exact it is rather how portable it is. HTML/CSS is NOT portable across all browsers so it's a bad level to work at.
Certainly if you're "tied" to it. But why not be able to upload a picture quickly, while still having it left on the memory card?
Right, "Let this be a lesson to you, kids: Unless you're Pacman, you're probably cool."
I guess you didn't bother to read the article beyond the title.
A tad too hopeful.
So, it would be better if compared with MySQL's "MEMORY" storage engine?
12 hours away - are you in the Northern or Southern hemisphere? (Just out of curiosity). There doesn't seem to be the same remote outsourcing trend here in the Southern hemisphere.
At some point, Google is bound to get "social" right. Maybe this time round. Maybe the next.

Once they do, however, they will have some serious synergy effects with all their existing projects, which Facebook, Twitter etc don't have.
Like everything else that is social - social networks are likely to be cyclical. Things that are fashionable will become unfashionable once everyone uses it and people will move onto the next cool environment.

Rinse repeat every 5 years or so.

If Google can time this right so that it becomes the next fashionable social network then it might well succeed.
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I write problems down and draw pictures. That also can help frame it, making a solution easier to see.
I assure you that a web app doesn't automatically solve the problem of backups etc. It merely moves it to someone/somewhere else. But then, so did IBM 3270 back in the 1970s!
I think this is one of those products where a combination of one-off and subscription pricing makes a lot of sense. This lets you raise subscription prices significantly while still keeping a way to get some money out of customers who're scared of monthly subscriptions. It also makes for a fantastic upsell position when you can tell a returning one-off customer how much they'd save by getting a subscription.