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First of all for those who are confused what it does: it's basically an RSS reader. EDIT: Maybe not actually.

I am also from Amsterdam and I am glad to see a startup from here. I feel like I should give my feedback: Other people have already mentioned that the landing page is a bit confusing. Too many things at once. I think the main thing is that making a good landing page takes a lot of time and effort plus iterations. There is also a lot of helpful material on Hacker News about this. Here is a good article about copywriting that might be useful for you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3992500 .

I have a comments on a few minor details:

1. I am not sensitive to swearing or anything, but I think you could have chosen a better title. To me I sounds a bit negative, like "F*uck, I'm releasing. I'm done with this, I hate this project.". It would be better if it was positive "Yeeesss, I am releasing" or even better if it would make me curious as the reader what the project does, instead of focusing on yourself.

2. You need a logo. Don't be cheap about this. You spend 6 month of your time, so you can also spend couple 100 euros on a logo.

3. Vanilla Bootstrap is getting a bit old (to the HN crowd, not necessarily to normal people), I think you should at least change some colors.

4. Notifications and "Access your content on any device" tabs look broken because they don't have any content.

5. I think the visual flow of the landing page can be improved. The first thing I look at is the screenshot, and then I get confused because I try to understand what it does.

6. The login button looks misaligned.

7. Make the link to the tour more obvious.

8. Say that it is mobile compatible on your homepage, not just in the tour. Maybe even make an app out of it with PhoneGap if possible. (Mobile developers will murder me for this one)

9. "Using Social Statistics to find important", "Listen Twitter, Facebook, Blogs." are not proper sentences. It was not clear immediately to me what you were trying to say.

10. It was not clear immediately to me what Social Statistics are. I was first assuming it's something about your personal friends. You don't really explain that. I think if you look at the screenshot it's clear, though.

I am sorry I can't comment on the product itself. I don't use an RSS reader (the internet is enough distraction as it is already), so I can't compare and can't really say anything about it without using the product. I hope other people will comment on it.

I also have some questions for you:

1. Why did you incorporate in the Netherlands? I thought everyone incorporates as a British Limited these days. Also why did you incorporate as a BV and not VOF?

2. You have an office in Science Park Matrix ?! Are you already a profitable business?

3. Do you go to any start-up meetups in Amsterdam or anything like that?
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I don't see the Contact and Fork Me on Github links on left when accessing from my Macbook. There should be a scrollbar.
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My guess is that you're not paying a lot for each bit transferred internationally, you're paying for the ability to be able to download content internationally. (Authors may be subsidizing the devices, as well. It makes sense, though; if Kindles were less ubiquitous, how much money would you make selling e-books.)

It's kind of like complaining that your ISP charges you the same monthly fee even if you don't download anything. The charge is for having the ability to transfer bits, not for each bit transferred.

I guess the complaint is that Amazon transfers much of their financial risk to authors via a $2 delivery fee. All I know is that I wrote a traditionally-published book and saw about $5 for every $40 the publisher charged. I would gladly take $38 instead of $5 and they could call the fee whatever the fuck they wanted.
This is true, there is still a gulf in performance requirements between something that needs to run a browser and angry birds and something that will be used for high end gaming (or game dev) and stuff like Music, CAD , Video creation.

Assuming that we can keep cranking the moore's law handle in one way or another people will always find a way to use that extra power even if the rate of return is somewhat logarithmic there is always a wow factor in something that is better even if only by a marginal amount.

The question I guess becomes how much of this can we move to the cloud? If the math for the virtual instruments in this example could be run inside a data centre and then streamed to the computer , perhaps some of the need for high end local hardware is alleviated.

Of course this will be cyclical , we move to a world where software is something that is paid for by the month and after a while of paying lots of different monthly fees for different apps somebody will start offering people a "local cloud" that will look like a great deal because you only pay once.
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It's also closed source, meaning we can't fix something if we want to. We can't see what's going on back there. When it comes to a tool that I use every day with personal data, I really want it to be open source.

My browser and my text editor definitely need to be open source. Additionally, Emacs is really amazing, and like many others, I've been building this init.el for years (in my case months), meaning Emacs and I are really made for each other right now.
To his credit though, some of his comics are hilarious. I have a couple printed on my wall (without his permission).
I'm pretty sure it implies the use of the scientific method.
We've got some stats visualization built in already and getting to it is a bit subtle - you hover over the table cells in your list of links on the account dashboard, then click on "more info" - but agreed that yeah, we could do a lot more there.
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1 happens, as long as the bigger part of the window is on the non-Retina display. If the bigger part of the window is on the Retina display, the window only gets a Retina paint event and the non-Retina display shows a downscaled version.

Source: manual testing under 10.7.4 with HiDPI resolutions activated using QuartzDebug
Yes I have. My comment about split windows was about TextMate, which 4 years later still doesn't have them. (Coming in TextMate 2, which will be released sometime after Half Life 3.)

Sublime has the eye candy, that I was talking about. It looks great. The 'birds eye' view is nice, but not particularly useful. There is nothing that it can do that it can do that Emacs/vim can't do or couldn't do with a few minutes of macro-recording/scripting. This is why I am saying it isn't worth the money. The open-source alternatives are superb.
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My first reaction: it looks like a piece of shit. Appearances should not matter, but they do.
Youre talking about opportunity cost. Most definitions of profit account for opportunity cost. So that penny in all profit takes into account the dollar you are forgoing.
Me too. I've been a vi/vim users for 20+ years, and I swear by vim for C/C++-based development - but now that I'm mostly doing Lua (MOAI), SublimeText2 has become my absolutely most loved tool. It is really one of those editors that became an instant hit, the moment I discovered Cmd-R, Cmd-T, and of course everyones favourite, Cmd-D. ;)

For some reason, ST2 reminds me of the old PC-Write editor for DOS, in terms of raw features and power - I guess because PC-Write was the last editor I used that had proper column/row selection, multiple-cursors, and so on. I sure do miss that editor (switched to vim full-time as soon as PC-Write was EOL'ed and I moved off DOS to Unix) ..
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Supposedly Tim Cook has said that updates for "pro customers" are coming next year.

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The thing is, the ethernet port is too thick. At least on the air it would be impossible, I think the same thing happens here.
I read recently that the Mac Pro accounts for less than %2 of Apple's Mac sales

What % of media and apps consumed on other Apple kit is created on Mac Pros? Are all the devs and videographers etc using laptops now?

FWIW my dev setup is a MacBook Pro connected to a Cinema Display.
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Can you render a 3 hour Final Cut Pro movie in a reasonable amount of time?

That's the Mac Pro use case.
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I don't think the protocol cares that much about who made the error. It's more about whether the client should retry the same unmodified request again or not. Using a 4xx series error code indicates that it shouldn't, using a 5xx series code indicates that it should.

Of course one can argue that censorship is only temporary and that actually it would make sense for clients to keep trying..

And yes people here in Finland understand the context.
I read that Intel is no longer manufacturing the CPUs the Mac Pro used, so Apple had to do an unscheduled upgrade, which would explain this horrible spec-bump.
He's informing us of the drawbacks of using the other plans. This special plan would be (for some) dipping toes in the water of RDS only to find out its infested with piranhas.
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Yeah Matt's a good guy. I've had coffee with him, worked with him very briefly, know friends of his, he's well liked in the Seattle community, etc. He's smart and talented. I'm watching this with interest because my lawyers have always told me to not fight a legal threat in the press (e.g. a trademark lawsuit I dealt with) because judges don't look kindly on it. But I'm not sure I agree with that so will be interesting to see how/if this unfolds.
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This does beat the $250 netbook, but possibly not along axes you care enough about. The fact they're marrying the distro to the hardware is a pretty big win in itself.

In short: they're not selling to you, so your not buying it doesn't mean they lose.
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I keep hearing this. I can do basic Vim (i.e use it as a standard text editor) but for "serious" programming tasks I mostly use Eclipse.

What advantages other than freeing up screen room and RAM would I get from using Vim over eclipse that would give me an "order of magnitude" productivity increase?

I know vim has a lot of keyboard shortcuts, but there are also quite a few in eclipse.
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Thanks for the suggestions.

Yes, we have an office in Science Park. No we are not a profitable business. We're not even a business yet. B.V. has advantages for our own reasons.

We're committed to this project.
We have rented the place on 1st of January 2012 and started working on.

I was at Hackers and Founders in its first 5-6 meetups. But I missed the last 5-6 meetups

We're bootstrapped but does not mean we will always be.
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The future of Linux on the general "desktop" space will be as a front end for the cloud/web I believe.

Rather than "Linux apps" expect it to be running stuff using things like Google Native client or increasingly sophisticated JS virtual machines.
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> That's a result of market dominance, not anything intrinsically different between Windows and Linux. Congrats!

<rant>

Linux support for new hardware is so crappy, it's unbelievable. I couldn't even launch ubuntu GUI setup because it preloads noveau, which causes kernel panics on my video card (nvidia gtx 560 ti). You have to spend hours in google to get anything to work, and it's embarrassing and humiliating at the same time.

Also, cough, fonts, cough.

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Am I the only one who noticed that the lid does not have the shiny words "Macbook Pro" anymore?
These links are good:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3140614

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4073597
Would it be a DMCA violation? I'm not really sure of the specifics here.

You wouldn't be breaking copyright , since you're not making a copy (assuming you bought a legit copy of the OS). You also aren't circumventing any of the copy protection afaik since OSX doesn't really have any.
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If I had to guess (and I guess I don't /have/ to), I'd say it's strictly psychological pricing, and is not intended to reflect some sort of idealized exchange rate or the like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing
You can't. Amazon reserves the right to drop the asking price on your book to the lowest price listed anywhere else. ("Most favoured nation status" is the term used to describe this kind of clause in a contract.)
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What are the list of those individual "words". And what is the syntax for combining them?
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"This is what really caught my attention about the Raspberry Pi. I just wish I knew how to get a case of them."

Check out BeagleBone - more expensive than RasberryPi, but they are available. I'm running a BeagleBone as a DNSMASQ server. Linux with package management and full-blown development tools running inside an Altoids tin - yeah! All of these small/cheap/silent linux boards are pretty incredible & there is more to come.
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I don't think it's that strange. Let's compare the cost of the same MacBook Air in the US and France.

1. MacBook Air 11-inch : 64GB in US is $999.

2. MacBook Air 11-inch : 64GB in France is €1,049

3. $1 = €0.80 at the current time.

So you might think the MacBook Air should be €800 (999 * 0.80). So why it is €249 more? France levies 19.6% TVA (sales tax) on goods and the tax is included in the display price; the US levies sales taxes by state and these are not shown in the displayed prices (sales tax calculated based on destination).

So, what you need to compare is the pre-tax price on both machine. The pre-tax price of the MacBook Air in France is €877. Thus Apple is charging €77 more for the MacBook Air in France than in the US.

The issue is tax rates not Apple.

If you look at the UK you'll find that

4. MacBook Air 11-inch : 64GB is £849

5. $1 = £0.65

So, the £ equivalent of the $999 machine is £650. UK VAT (sales tax) is 20% and thus the pre-tax price of the machine is £707. So Apple is charging £57 more in the UK than in the US.
Don't forget sales taxes as well. Depending upon where you are you are probably paying something like 20% VAT (TAV or whatever) - quoted in the consumer price.

In the USA, they have the annoying habit of excluding sales tax (presumably on the grounds that it varies wildly from place to place) and that is only added at the checkout.
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sword, a spellbook, and a beer.

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Well, I think that if enough people show they want this by upvoting, then pg should consider it.
That's exactly backwards. Amazon are expensive; they're fighting on features, not price.
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Same here -- I'm not a fan of anything but self-hosting, but I LOVE the simplicity of this thing, it's very sexy. I just wish it would support OStatus, for example. There's depending on third parties, and there's depending on third parties :P But that's what open source is for, right?
> US levies sales taxes by state

Or, in the cases of Oregon and New Hampshire, does not levy it at at all.
Yes, but maybe enough people are fine with the current condition because they can download. If they couldn't, more people would be frustrated with status quo and force something else to appear.

"..but isn't that independent of the moralic discussion.."
Well, one could argue that since they refuse to make an alternative, people can resort to the only alternative there is.
...and now I'm wondering if it'll run on an RPi.
Discussed at considerable length when the story was submitted last month:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3946008

114 comments.
How can IDE be bad for me? It's like saying a hammer is bad for me (Sure it is if I don't use it responsibly or correctly). And on C front I'd agree. There are no really good IDEs for C/C++ and the way they work/are used wouldn't benefit much from an IDE.

If you are more productive in IDE over text, what is the benefit of using text editor?
The author is charged the delivery cost whether the delivery happens over 3G or Wifi.

Personally, I doubt the cost to Amazon to deliver the average e-book is anywhere near their quoted rate. If they wanted to charge separately for 3G or wifi delivery I'm sure they could do so: they have simply chosen not to. Possibly it's simply inertia: the original Kindles were 3G only IIRC, so they would have had to pay steep costs themselves for data delivery back then for all downloads. Now they've discovered that authors are willing to eat those charges, why change them?

The consequence of course is that it's uneconomic to sell image-heavy works through the Kindle platform, despite the move to wifi delivery & full-colour tablet Kindles which could exploit them to their full potential. Even books like the OPs find a huge chunk of their profit margin swallowed up by these delivery charges.