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Delaware is a the most common place for incorporation mostly because they have by far the most legal precedent. This reduces legal uncertainties. This also means that, in general, corporate lawyers are familiar with Delaware codes w.r.t. incorporation.
This whole thing is weird (and stupid). I listened to the Hanselman interview with the guy who started pushing the concept of JS as Assembly. He came across to me as being really confused. He seems to conflate the concept of a .Net assembly, with "assembly language". I got the impression he had never written anything in assembly language, and didn't understand that it's a minimal mnemonics + macro layer over actual byte code, not something highly portable, and not something that "assembles" components together.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsAssemblyLanguageFo...

JavaScript is the new universal web glue language. This is great, as is the fact that people are developing better-abstracted languages which compile to JS. But it's not any sort of "assembly language" unless you employ really confused semantics. I take issue with this for precisely the same reason that I take issue with using "Cloud" interchangeably with "Internet" or "Website".
Here is an older, portable Macintosh with more (claimed) battery life than most of the modern Macs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGwVTq_xcZk
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First, that is a remark with extraordinarily sexist undertones. What makes you think that she doesn't love it? Have you ever used Scratch, or even looked at it? It's a huge cartoon-and-legos playground. It's great for kids. But moreover, she likes problem solving. But I guess to you, that's not the domain of women or girls.

"He must be thrusting this upon her, because little girls don't love problem solving!"

Give me a break. Judging from your other posts in this thread you sound like a very judgmental, smug & condescending person, exactly the characteristics I point out the folly of to my kid. Plus, you're just way off-base, factually.
Correct. That doesn't make CoffeeScript->JavaScript like C->assembly. In fact, it supports the idea that it's like C++->C. C++ provides stronger type checking than C and provides different syntax for things like constructors, heap allocation, etc.
I would have totally tried to get my family on board with G+ (I pitched the hell out of the circles thing to them), but I couldn't even make my own account as a Google apps user. Google hyped it super well, but they prevented the "super users", if you will, from evangelizing to their friends and family by not letting Google Apps users on board. The hype faded, and I haven't heard of G+ in normal conversation in quite a while.
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Finally a Gruber post I haven't felt forced to flag. A pretty good analysis, excellent (as usual writing), interesting testable predictions plus just enough Apple flag-waving so you don't forget which religion he follows.

edit reading through the comments shows a commensurate level of better discussion than the usual Gruber response as well.
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Good thing we have these stories once a week to remind us not to use GoDaddy. Maybe people will start listening.
Is that really hot off the press, or did Gruber just miss this?
This is why Metro will make or break Windows. This is where the line is drawn in the sand. Since ARM is the future together with touch based devices, Microsoft will have to move over to ARM. The problem is they are very vulnerable on ARM, because they have no apps there, and wanting millions of apps on a tablet was kind of the whole reason you'd want Windows on a tablet.

But it won't work, because those apps won't be available on ARM, and even if they were, they wouldn't be designed for touch. So Microsoft is starting from scratch, and this time they have strong competition from both iOS and Android.

In this market, their Windows dominance doesn't matter as much, so they are on equal footing with the others. And I find that very exciting. If you notice, Microsoft is innovating only when it's the underdog in some way, not really when it dominates.

So I hope 5 years from now we'll get to see iOS, Android and Windows with about equal market share each for "personal computing devices", whatever that means 5 years from now.
I think metro is very minimal and very clean. But it's also... cold. A bit too austere. The goal for an interface isn't to impress--it's to connect. Somehow, I've never felt a sense of connection with the Metro interfaces. It feels like design borrowed from the annual report of a faceless international corporation. All design; no personality. I like simple and clean. And I like minimalism. But I also think you have to be careful with it or you'll end up with something soulless. That, I think, is what has always subtly bothered me about Metro.
From the article:

"you can’t give iOS apps even the option to run continuously in the background without sacrificing battery life and foreground app performance. But that’s how Microsoft has positioned Metro for tablets — a modern touch interface that carries the full CPU and RAM consumption of Windows as we know it. That have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too attitude is what I didn’t get with Microsoft’s positioning Metro as its answer to the iPad."

This is wrong. From Anandtech: (http://www.anandtech.com/show/4771/microsoft-build-windows-8...)

"discarded applications will continue to stay open as a background application, having all of their memory pages intact but unable to schedule CPU time so long as they’re a background application. They’ll remain in this state until the OS decides to evict them, at which point they need to be able to gracefully shut down and resume when the user re-launches the application. Internally Microsoft calls this freezing and rehydrating an application."

Metro's approach sounds very similar to that of iOS and Android. Presumably this behavior will be adjustable so that background processes can be allowed on desktops without mobile power constraints. This is actually a really smart way to do things. Make how the OS handles background apps a setting rather than hard-coded architecture. e.g. If you're out and about using your tablet background apps get quashed so that you get decent battery life. When you go home and plug it into a dock you can leave a torrent downloading in the background while you browse the web or play games. Best of both worlds.
Momentum. It's very important. I can't remember how many times where I half start something and get distracted. I rarely return back to the project. Don't underestimate momentum. This is one of the reasons to have a co-founder. When one drags their feet, the other keeps the team going. What do single founders do to keep momentum up?
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technoslut's comment/link (above) would disagree.
>closed invitation-only beta thing

i'm wondering how Google doesn't see the difference between e-mail, where a restricted growth system - gmail - was still a part of a global email system, and G+ - the social network closeted in itself by its core nature.
This makes a lot of sense. Emacs calls the OS-level-thing-to-draw-on a "frame", and then you have non-overlapping "windows" inside the frame.
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Depending on how good a job they did moving their applications over to CLR languages, it wouldn't be that hard to port to ARM....in theory.
Considering the dramatic number of vulnerabilities discovered on Wordpress plugins recently I'd double check everything.

http://www.exploit-db.com/search/?action=search&filter_p...

And an useful tool to fingerprint a wordpress isntallation: http://code.google.com/p/wpscan/
Now we're starting to see the real reason Facebook is delaying their IPO.
This looks really great for a geek like me who can somewhat do art/design, but knows something is missing! Ordered.
Their talent retention is a good enough reason as well; if not an acceptable excuse.
Windows Store is the iOS App Store done right... at least for developers
So similar to tiling window managers you'd find on GNU/Linux I guess.
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Most schools have websites with faculty emails listed... it's very easy to look them up. I like the idea for this site - but would love to see a bigger mechanism for actually getting the messages to the teachers.
I'm speaking from the beta. The act of going between a "traditional" looking UI and Metro and what is available in each is very disjointed.
This is fantastic! I way prefer this positivity over the judgemental tone of websites like ratemyprofessors.com

Would be nice to break this down by region.
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There will be a post TechCrunch Disrupt chat this evening at 7:30pm pst. It will be on Spaces (spacesapp.com), so it's mobile and for iPhone users.

There's no set agenda, just stop by see what is going on, split off into different groups and really go crazy.

Thanks Spaces Cadets!
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Google+ fell prey to Orkut-failure-mode for me (endless numbers of random people adding me). It's sad, because I'd really like a long-form social blogging platform, maybe more serious than tumblr; basically a professional equivalent of LiveJournal, with group based access control.
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Looks like it hasn't launched yet, although the video said early 2011.

Somehow I feel sad, like all the work suddenly stopped and there was no product launch and all that hard work I've observed was lost in the wind.

Or maybe I'm just projecting my own pre-launch jitters for my own app.
The OS can stop any process at any time and resume it later. There's no need for virtualization here.
Oh Macbook Air. For some reason my tired brain kept thinking about what an Air Battery would look like.
Which isn't likely to be a concern anymore, since most people here would be smart enough to either use a private tracker (which isn't selected) or to use some filehost like rapidshare.
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As compared to what? A traditional desktop like interface with application icons scattered over the background?
As in... iOS?

One would think that the live tiles with continuously updated information show more "connection" with the user.
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FWIW the Xerox Alto (1979) called them windows, even though you're right that they didn't overlap like the Mac/Lisa ones did.
http://history-computer.com/Library/AltoUsersHandbook.pdf

EDIT: The Alto could run SmallTalk as one of its environments, though, and its windows overlapped as of SmallTalk-72 or -76
http://www.esug.org/data/HistoricalDocuments/SmalltalkHistor...
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Why should people who live longer lifes benefit economically for that?

The only fair thing to do at this point would be the old 14 years + optional extension.

Then everybody has a chance to benefit from what they have created and the original bargin is kept with the public.
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Can you provide a little more detail on this? What percentage of users actually use the defaults (for both start and end date), and how many change it anyways?

Have you thought about doing some A/B testing on providing a default and not?
Gruber's wrong on this. The ARM version will include the regular Windows desktop, Office etc. Microsoft has shown this multiple times. They have demoed even ARM desktops with a mouse and a keyboard!

Video back from January: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvzJmRBS84w (watch from 2 mins in).
Shouldn't it have a search feature? I'd like to check my old highschool/town.
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The image you see is an artist's rendering, of course.

The Shuttle main engines used to be painted white (this is the big central tank supplying liquid hydrogen and oxygen to the engine).

But it turned out to save about 600lb to leave it unpainted, so that's what they did for all later launches. The tank already has an insulator. You can see both versions in Shuttle launch imagery.

From wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_external_tank):

"The original ET is informally known as the Standard Weight Tank (SWT) and is fabricated from 2219 - a high strength aluminium-copper alloy used for many aerospace applications. The first two, used for STS-1 and STS-2, were painted white to protect the tanks from ultraviolet light during the extended time that the shuttle spends on the launch pad prior to launch.[4] Because this did not turn out to be a problem and in order to reduce weight, Lockheed Martin ceased painting the external tanks beginning with STS-3, leaving the rust-colored spray-on insulation bare, saving approximately 272 kg (600 lb) of weight."
A certain company has an agreement that they own any invention you invent while at the company and 1 year after, whether it relates to their business or not.

Now, it did say invention, not all IP. Also, it didn't define invention, which was weird because in another place it said, "invention, as defined in this document" or something to that effect.
Which proves he didn't even bother to watch the keynote. There was even a piece of hardware that showed the power consumption during sleep. They also showed the new task manager and specifically pointed out how the Metro apps have been suspended (using 0% CPU, but still loaded in RAM).
here's a parse beta code: 'sightglass' (no quotes).
Great app, Kasper and Caleb!
That just sounds like a different product. I wouldn't want anyone to be able to pop in and watch my interview.

Also, are you sure that it does already exist?
Isn't that like asking Bush to work things out with Osama in a roundtable meeting before going to war?

Seriously though, these software patent cases are getting ridiculous. I could see why a judge would have little patience to deal with one after another.
Dart will not be 2x (or more) faster than JS.
Dart will not be so much more expressive and elegant than JS is.

Google would have to replace the whole stack (from HTTP to DOM to Dart to IDEs) to make it really compelling, but I'm pretty sure they will give it a shot.

Fortunately there is a competition:

Nobody will dedicate himself to Chrome Web Store and Google Web technologies and miss out on future Facebook WebApp Store (or whatever Project Spartan turns out to be) or future Apple AppStore (I believe in Apple's intelligence and visionary and that they will realize potential of Open Web and Clouds in time).

Android also is in trouble so unless Google will win the mobile market big time it will get more fragmented and thus forcing everybody to jump into Open Web and not Google Web.

And then there's Mozilla - let's hope they can pull off some good piece technology with their B2G and Firefox Mobile!

At least that's what I want to believe...
You're referring to Chris Granger's project; https://github.com/ibdknox/brepl ?
From a purely aesthetic point of view, I kind of feel the same as toddmorey. I find it too cold, too precise, too machine-like. It's like looking at a 3D rendition of a face versus an actual picture. A little bit of roundness here and there, subtle transparency, or at least shades of color could help.
I think the act of flipping between them is not meant to be a common event. But I do agree they do need to clean up the edges, although I don't think its "critical" for v1 of Metro.
What would be very interesting to talk about (instead of entering into the details of an innocent analogy) is a toolkit that would make very easy to create new higher level languages on top of JavaScript.

Unfortunately, JavaScript and its VMs have limitations that would not allow us to create very performant languages for some domains but I think we could have a lot of other useful higher level language to program (the web).
It would be nice if the "who's hiring" posts for each month would show up there too.
Thanks for the feedback both you and the OP. We will make this more clear.
Can is say one thing "patent reform" please.

This trend really bugs me all the big companies are spending billions of dollars on papers instead of putting it into Innovation / new products etc.

If this trend goes on and more patent trolls enter the field everyone of us needs to have a patent lawyer next to our desk. Lodsys allready proved its worth to go after the lowest hanging fruit.

I dont want to imagine what happens if one of the big tech companies turn evil.
I don't know if I could agree with that, at least in this case. I'm sure invite-only isn't a good policy unless you are really beta testing, millions of users jumped on the bandwagon despite their being invites only, and then millions of users started abandoning the platform almost as fast. A decline in use is not the same as nobody jumping on.

The numbers show that the rapid descent started almost immediately from the point that Google starting enforcing the Real Names policy.
If someone can "subscribe" to me without me approving them, it seems like there's a major privacy concern there (what else is new...)

One benefit to the two-way friend/approve system was if your teacher, boss, parent, or stalker try to friend you, you can deny it and they can't see your info. It seems like now they can just subscribe and you don't even know..?
Agreed, If you know the exact js file or code snippet that kissmetrics requires - then it would be an even better grep. Wanna take a stab?
Metro is actually meant to be "soulless" by design. It's supposed to be distinctly digital. The idea is that your "connections" come from your actual social web, not from rendered wood textured bookshelves. At least, that's the idea.
The biggest difference is that Metro IE doesn't support Flash/Silverlight/plugins and desktop IE does. This is, I suspect, why they put a 'switch to desktop IE' feature into Metro IE. Site's broken? Just flip to the full version.
I wonder how many library congresses a modern iPad holds.
Click "What's This All About" on the top. Search is in the lower left.
I feel like one of the few who sees the emperor with no clothes.

Let me first start by stating that I do believe that touchscreen devices will continue to revolutionize industries, as they already have. But, why in God's name are Microsoft and Apple trying to shoehorn the touch-screen onto the desktop?

Mac OS X Lion is probably the last OS X version that we'll see. With each version it's gotten closer and closer to behaving like iOS. It seems that Microsoft is doing the same with Windows 8. Think about this, the human-device interface with touchscreen devices and desktop is different. The whole paradigm is different. With touch, you have your finger. The other, you have mouse/keyboard. The user interfaces that cater to one don't cater to other very well. Why force it?

I believe mobile is the future. But, I'm not sure this is the best evolution for desktop interfaces.

TL;DR: Metro UI looks nice, but merging touchscreen UI with desktop UI is a mistake... a la same Windows 8 for all devices.

EDIT: Please share your thoughts.
The fact that the Kindle version is embargoed for a month is one of the most retarded publisher moves I've seen. That and the ridiculous pricing. There are no excuses for this, and illustrates yet again why these dinosaur publishers are going to be extinct in a few decades.
I disagree actually. I think cohesiveness should be a pre-requisite for the release of this.
I missed the video, but I am surprised why the rise of predictive analytics, creative optimization and advertiser workflow automation is not on this list.

Making and targeting ads effectively is very time-consuming and error prone. There is tremendous room for innovation.
He later goes on to suggest that perhaps there will be no "traditional" Windows on the tablet, only Metro, which he discusses having the same sorts of backgrounding-and-suspending capability iOS enjoys. From the article:

It’s worth noting that Metro is more than just a new look, and more than just putting touch first. Metro apps have similar restrictions to iOS apps. According to Jensen Harris, for example, Metro apps will get “about five seconds” after they’re no longer on-screen before the system puts them into a suspended state. There’s no file manager. Users no longer quit (or, in Windows parlance, exit) apps explicitly. These tradeoffs sound familiar?

...Did you (and the parent poster) simply read the Gruber article until you could find something to nitpick, then go with it?
We could probably make this featured main page and more explicit, Thanks for pointing this out.
I had some great teachers that I will always remember (what they taught me and their physical appearance). However I can't remember any of my teachers' names, whether it was elementary, junior high, or high school, or even university.

I just don't have a good memory of names. This site makes me regret it :-(
I feel like it has lost the momentum it had during its first few weeks though. If they ramped up the invites faster, I think it would have retained a higher user base now.
I'd chuck mine in the ocean just to make it true.
I thought GoDaddy commercials were enough to make people not want to use GoDaddy.
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So you suppose she might not care that much? How much is her reputation worth? Wasn't she essentially retired before being brought in for a Mission Impossible?
Thanks for the kind words, we have been pulling this together over the last few weeks but breakdown by region will be very cool. It has been interesting to see where students are coming from: Kuwait, New Zealand, Brazil, etc.
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Long story, but it is a campaign under another group for 30 days and after that it should be around for a long time.
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It would be nice, for now we have the user pushing it out manually. Is there a database/directory for teachers that we could use for the backend?
No, ClojureScript now has its own browser REPL.
Technically speaking the article is correct: "JS is the assembly of the web" can seem misleading if one means assembly as "machine-specific code".

But "JS is the assembly of the web" is correct in the sense it is normally meant, which is "a language that you can compile into as opposed to writing directly for."

We are seeing that today, as the list of languages compiling into JS grows, and begins to resemble the list of languages compiled into assembly. Whereas the list of languages that compile into say C is much smaller.

So it is still a fair statement to call JS "the assembly of the web", at least as long as we understand what we mean by that.
Innvation is still alive in the US...see Lytro
Been reading a lot about “innovation and the lack thereof”. Lytro is one innovative company and it started by a Stanford CS PhD student (Ren) who asked a simple question for his thesis: “how do you take the work of 100 cameras and put it into 1?” The result was a camera that took 2D photos unlike conventional photos. I am not going to go into the details here (I won’t do them justice) but check them out. The innovation came from a simple question, the risk and the patience of pursuing the answer to his question. The initial impetus was not for $ but with the cool technology, he ultimately began his startup. Yes, not all startups will start like this, but my point is that the US still fosters innovation! So if you’re looking for that big disruptive innovative idea and want to break the endless cycle of startup rehashes, let’s all take a page out of Lytro: think outside the box, ask questions that no one else asks, take risks, and have patience and persevere.