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I connected with Facebook, went through the entire registration process, and got the writing page...and still didn't know what I was doing.

It definitely needs to be more clear what @bubbles actually does (and why I would use it).
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Unfortunately it's not a matter of sticking fingers in your ears, I can tell you. If you've got 50-100,000 workstations to worry about, and a couple of intranet apps that only run in older versions (there are more of these than you might think,) upgrading IE could be a fabulously large and expensive project.

Still you gotta catch up at some point. The product I work on is dropping IE8 in January, which will cause some of our larger and less nimble customers to get stuck on an older version until they can fix their browser situation.
I'm sure it's possible to do with a jailbreak tweak, and I'll look into that. I've always wondered, are many HN readers jailbreakers?

EDIT: This looks like it should do the job - http://www.redmondpie.com/change-default-browser-on-iphone-w... Just have to wait for an update.
Alright, will fix this and iterate the plans page design. Thanks a tonne!
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If this lets me have my passwords and bookmarks on my iPhone, I'm definitely saying goodbye to Xmarks and Lastpass.
A Blackberry phone's value is BBM so you can communicate with your fellow employees (supposedly anonymously) versus e-mail which seems incredibly formal in comparison and BBM is faster too.

BBM is certainly not a replacement for e-mail but it's an alternative to, well, nothing.
The homepage is rather terrible at explaining the product. The two clearest explanations on the page are in the smallest and most illegible type.

"@bubbles is a fast, cool and easy way to write authentic letters. Put hand-written signature, draw, sketch, paint, write or collage on your letters and mail it to anyone."

"@bubbles lets you write authentic letters straight from your browser. Add pictures, draw, type, paint, sketch or collage just like on real paper – it's as easy as pie."

I'd skip the "fast," "cool," "easy," "easy as pie" explanations and keep it as honest and succinct as possible.

In fact, your enterprise page does a decent job of explaining the product, especially since you have a video explanation, but I'm still not sure if you're a social network, email 2.0, a paper distributor, or a tshirt printer.
With a simple skydive, Google succeeded where Color failed
Hmmm, we're trying to lower the learning curve and improve on this. I just connected with your @bubble profile. You can now try typing @arvind anywhere on your letter and send it to me.
Plenty of company's use several banks at the same time so assuming you can get loans in the 300+ million range from mid sized banks it only takes 10 of those to get into the range where 3+ billion range. Is it slightly more efficient to deal with a single entity, sure but the overhead of multiple 100+ million loans is tiny relative to whatever your actually using the money for.
Hmm. Sounds like something straight out of http://www.amazon.com/Poorly-Made-China-Insiders-Production/....
As of now, it's #1 when searching for "Chrome."
I didn't have much success with the bugs that I filed at apple over the past years. They all went into a black hole, never received as much as a response.

The thing is that I don't want the iPad to just save passwords. It already does that, although somewhat unreliably for me. I want it to use my existing, ginormous list of passwords stored in LastPass.

I don't even try anymore to do anything that requires a login on the iPad, it's an exercise in frustration. Sometimes Safari remembers the password that I painfully transcribed for a site, usually it doesn't.

It's such a blatant oversight for a device that is touted no least as "the internet in your hands" that I keep wondering why I so rarely see other people mention it.
"What exactly could be done to this page to make it more "emotive"? "

Comic Sans seems to do the trick for many people.
What do you mean dropping IE8 support? The jQuery Core team still supports IE 6, 7, and 8, and has not announced that they are dropping it. That's what jQuery 1.9 is about.
Chrome for iOS hits No.1 in Apple’s App Store
Aha! So, I can basically write "rich" emails. That's cool. Wouldn't it be nice to have some sort of a Bubbles-Gmail plugin using which I can do such a thing inside my Gmail itself, while composing emails? Overall neat.
It doesn't normalize DOM events, which is a big one for many people.
Those are bad reasons to hold the web back. They don't adapt because they're lazy or don't know better. Making it hard to use obsolete browsers is doing them a favor. They'll like the present when they try it.
Understanding Google Chrome on Android and iOS (including WebView)
Great post by @firt
Double-clicking also selects the entire address bar.
You know what? At this point I'm not sure it's worth catering to people who "don't even know what a browser is."

They've had nearly 20 years to hop on the bandwagon and start understanding this crazy "internet" thing, and they haven't. A person that behind the times isn't going to buy anything on the internet anyway.
Noted. We will iterate the home page again and improve upon it. Well, I think we're a social utility which is centered around letters, and sits very close to emails.

We provide official letters heads to enterprise, so that employees can write with brand on the top. And ordinary sheet-of-paper style letters to users on which people can write/draw etc.

We will fix the design of plans page shortly, also.
They have at least one user, and they are learning how the system works more than on a win98 system. Did your first machine have multiple users?
Why would an internal metric shut up people's direct experiences? I don't use FB anymore and the residual email spam activity still is louder than G+ activity.
It looks like LinkedIn plus fancier messaging.

I can't imagine a case where I would prefer to open a PDF from an email or go to another site rather than directly read an email though.
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I'd +1 it but ... no +1 button.
I'd love to hear why someone disagrees with this, especially given Oracle's behavior with Sun's IP.
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>Now this is an outright lie.

No Sir, you're BSing. I showed dozens of links that document the racism, apartheid and murder of "the other" that your state is carrying out and you seem to justify it. Show me how many people have been killed by Qassam or other rockets, show me a time period when Israel did not kill 4-10 times more people than killed by primitive rockets.

> because Israel builds bomb shelters

Israel refused to allow cement into Gaza for years even to build hospitals and schools that were destroyed in the 2008 massacre. Stop justifying the murder and terror that the Israeli regime is carrying out. Egyptian murders are bad, Israeli murderers have killed far more people than Egyptian tyrants. No one here justified Egyptian butchers, stop justifying Israeli terrorism.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/01/us-palestinians-is...

Gaza gets chocolate but no cement as embargo eases

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/06/help-replace-welshingazas-came...

Help replace @WelshinGaza’s camera destroyed by the Israeli navy

"On Monday, we published a harrowing account from @WelshinGaza about their standoff with the Israeli navy off the coast of Gaza. During the encounter, Welsh's camera was destroyed by a stream of water the navy shot at the human rights observation boat Welsh was traveling on."

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=498678

Israel demolishes Bedouin village for 39th time

<-- Al Araqib is a village which is inside the 1948 Israel boundary and its citizens are Israeli citizens but since they are not Jewish their houses are being demolished again and again so that other Jews can be brought in to settle in their place. The residents have deeds that predate the Zionist settler movement that accelerated in 1900s.
You shouldn't assume that everyone with money or education shares all of the same interests as you.
I have to agree with this. The skydiving stuff - possibly interesting from a networking perspective - but from a product perspective... I just don't get why people ate this up. It honestly felt ridiculous to me.

I'd be more enthused if I felt like they laid out a road map for the product and talked about why we need this. Why do (normal) consumers want this, Google? Im not saying they don't I just want to know why Google thinks they do and what the offering really is going to be. We've seen tech-oriented glasses in many forms over the years flop... why now and why will people adopt these? Whats the actual killer features that are going to be worth putting these on?
Here's what I said when the rumour about Compute Engine came out: "If Google can deliver a semi-decent IaaS offering that works well with App Engine they will have a uniquely powerful platform." (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4150261)

Looks like Google have done just that and IMO this now puts AWS on defence since they don't have anything comparable to App Engine.

Google solved the hard problem first: creating a general purpose automatically scalable web platform. With Compute Engine instances you can now fill in the holes in App Engine--SQL databases, native binaries etc.

This definitely changes the hosting game.
I can't imagine the internet is very useful or fun for those people either. Every other site must be broken in some way. And that's still not enough for them to ask someone about it.
Virtually all Groovy work involved Grails. There's no other reason to adopt Groovy. If you need standalone scripts in an IDE, it's easier to use, say, Eclipse Xtend (http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/06/xtend-release-10)
it is sad that the experience is rarely consistent...

It's a preview.
it's not always just about buying. having information accessible to people is... generally... a good goal to have.
Examples: Nortel, Corel

Both of which conquered their respective markets with their "terrible management". Perhaps you have a chip on your shoulder, but your argument is self-nullifying.

Nortel headed to the shitter, it should be noted, when they recruited management from Motorola.

RIM went into the death spiral because they were committed to keeping BBM as their cash cow long after the world had moved on. They saw themselves as their own competitor, which is how you end up with products like the Playbook missing basic communication functionality.
Incubators are the new MBA. The top few programs bring connections, which unfortunately are by far the most important asset in the VC-istan startup game-- especially now with all the carpet-baggers and summer soldiers and unsavory scene kids. (You also have the option to learn things, but that's tertiary.) The next few are well-run, generally good programs but don't have the prestige to bring the leadership positions (or, for incubators, the funding) to allow a person to make use of that knowledge... so it's only worth it if you have those resources already. Those in the bottom set provide neither knowledge or connections and are generally a waste of time.

Incubators, I guess, are a bit better in the sense that they only collect if you do. For that alone, they deserve a better name than MBA programs, which take their share regardless.
Atypically letters (Like appointment/proposal) are sent as attachments and people seem to be used to opening it as PDF.

Opening letters on @bubbles has some incentives. For examples, you can highlight on letters received from others and comment "on it". Not under it.
"most people are finding each other boring, even if they're friends..."

this kind of frightens me, even though I lean towards introversion.
Google first need to convince their engineers as well as managements to deploy critical systems (hopefully not just support.google.com or some internal properties) to compute engine just like what Amazone does for EC2 (they powered amazon.com)
This is how we view the "mobile first" movement - not in terms of first developing a mobile version and then working out later how to turn it into a desktop site, but instead using the laser-like focus that "mobile" requires to properly identify and prioritize your goals.

It's much more about getting your design requirements listed in order of importance - if you spend the time thinking about questions like "if I have to fit this product/site/app onto a 4inch diagonal screen, what are the absolutely most important bits to show first?", you'll have a much easier time designing upwards to the tablet/netbook/laptop/desktop sized versions. Shrinking down to a 4" screen from the 1600pixel wide monstrosity that every single stakeholder has insisted has _their_ "critical" piece included is _way_ more work.

I've often used the "mobile first" approach to gently encourage clients to prioritize goals properly "I know we're not considering a mobile version of this site at this stage, but there's a _lot_ of conflicting requirements for your homepage here. If we were in the future to develop a mobile version, which of these things would we cut and which would we keep if we only had a phone screen to display everything on?" is an approach thats worked well for me…
Thanks sooperman. We explored the idea of mail plugins, but decided that real fun would be on a ground-up idea! People tend to play hand drawn tic-tac-toe on this virtual paper to and fro. :-)
You're comparing apples to oranges. A more correct assertion: By late 2012, jQuery will still be supporting a browser replaced by MS in 2006 but by early 2013 it won't support a browser that was only replaced by MS in 2011.

It's still a valid point, but comparing release dates with replacement dates just hurts the whole argument.
I think that Google is, at this point, doing a simple marketing exercise to test the concept. Why spend millions in R&D before you even know if people are interested in the new form factor?

So far, the reaction seems to be mostly positive. By hiring a few stunt guys and a blimp Google created a lot of hype, got a nice amount of feedback on that.

Heck, I was suckered by the presentation, even while thinking "I wonder what they are using the send the image feed, surely not 3G or even LTE... and what else besides doing Plus group conversations can this do?". I knew it wasn't revolutionary, but still got excited.
"If you've got 50-100,000 workstations to worry about, and a couple of intranet apps that only run in older versions (there are more of these than you might think,) upgrading IE could be a fabulously large and expensive project."

So... don't upgrade IE, but give people the option of - you know - running another browser. The IT folks can even lock it down so no one can do anything useful with it, but they could give people firefox, chrome, safari or opera as another tool on their desktop.

Holding back an entire company's ability to do any modern browsing because you're still tied to one HR intranet app from 2003 is just silly. There's no sane argument to be made for it, in light of the short- and long-term opportunity costs it imposes.
The media's expectations of the frequency of disruption
The Nexus 7 is being repeatedly compared with the Kindle Fire in spite of its specs.

By the tech media, most of whom simply want to avoid the whole boring iPad market only argument. In the real world this is direct competition for the iPad, with a very significant draw of price. People aren't generally suckers, and they don't want to pay more if a less expensive product satisfies their needs.
You created a Hacker News account just to comment on this? Was it this comment (http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/ANN-Groovy-2-0-is-release...) on the Groovy mailing list urging people to "spread the word" at Hacker News?
>Also, Apple has pretty much the same position in the tablet market that Microsoft did in the PC market. I can't remember the last time I saw someone holding a non-Apple tablet who wasn't trying to sell me one.

Rather than blindly speculating, we can look at actual facts.

Today Microsoft has 93% of the desktop OS market.[1] Considering the recent rise in popularity of both OS X and Linux I would guess that was higher in the 90s, but I have not done enough research to be sure

Apple's iOS today has 63% of the mobile market.[2] While that is still the majority it is not close to Microsoft's desktop dominance even today.

So maybe you only socialize with Apple fans but your circle does not represent the market as a whole.

[1] http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-shar...

[2] http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-shar...
>It's hard to take your argument seriously when you are repeating these propaganda talking points, and that's where I stopped reading.

You are repeating Israeli military's propaganda. You are justifying the deaths of thousands of Palestinians and crying crocodile tears over Qassam rockets. Life is sacred, my problem is that I consider every single life sacred. To me the terrorism that kills tens of thousands (by nuclear-armed Israelis with white phosphorus, F-16s, Cobra Gunships) is far worse terrorism than the terrorism that kills 50 (by Qassam or other primitive, unguided rockets).

I'm not interested if you keep repeating your IDF propaganda. If you are sure you are correct then link to a credible source that shows Qassam killed more than Israeli F-16s, Gunships etc killed.
Which has nothing to do with either Nortel or RIM. That works at many levels of the market, but is irrelevant here.
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I don't think it's a matter of growing out of it. Rather when I was younger I tended to uncritically accept the rhetoric surrounding the GPL vs BSD licenses. As I have watched the way many BSD-licensed projects work on the ground, that's changed.

Two major realizations have occurred to me:

1) the GPL generally provides a shield to those projects which have a slow pace of development or are immature. They prevent things like Informix or Solaris from developing from PostgreSQL or BSD.

2) On the other hand, as projects mature, there is a real quid quo pro regarding future contributions which doesn't exist in the GPL. By contributing back you ensure you have access to future patches by other contributors. As a result companies like EnterpriseDB or Green Plum which offer proprietary versions of PostgreSQL have both contributed a lot of their code back. They don't contribute everything back but they contribute everything back the project wants to accept. This leaves EDB with some Oracle compatibility code and GreenPlum with a node coordinator and a few other things.

The quid quo pro is relatively simple. if the pace of development and quality of code is high, then you really want cost-effective access to new work. The more you keep to yourself the more it costs you to access that work, so you give things back so they become standard, and reduce your own efforts to integrate what is left.
Clojure is really quite a remarkable language.

The macros and concurrency features are quite stunning, and if they really work as advertised will truly put to rest the last remnants of my interest in Groovy.

I would love to see some more direct support for doing a pure functional style of programming, but what is there is close enough and so much easier to grok than Haskell, to be honest.
That works fine for your blog, but what percentage of customers are you willing to turn away from your web business?
Good. IE 6-8 need to die a quick death and this is a way to help them along. It would be even better if devs got together and just dumped IE6-8 users to an incompatibility page.
I watched the skydiving demo video and also didn't understand how it was different than someone with a GoPro camera strapped to their head.
Not a very efficient solution to the "Google is getting too much attention" problem. I have to respect the people who did it, even if I don't the manager who decided to show it before it's ready.
I hate to be that guy, but the page's design looks like a bad mishmash of every contemporary trendy framework/web aesthetic.

- the 3 columns at the base of the first page are misaligned

- there is something wrong with the hover on the menu, enterprise, contact us, and pricing all highlight at the same time despite going to different places

- contact us changes the menu on top

- there are an insane amount of ways text is emphasized, from the angular graphic border, ribbons, the {} thing, the round blue button on the enterprise page, soft grey insets, soft blue insets, insets in insets, all-caps, bold, random colors (blue, black, green, red), the checkmarks, the badges, etc.

- the buttons are all different. different border-radius and color on almost every page

- i have no idea what the search bar on top is for

- what is with the clocks? there are 2 on the front page, and the footer provides a clock with a very corny digital font for every other page.

This is all on top of the fact that I have very little idea as to how you actually go from the browser to a hand-written letter.
The single feature I long for that I've never seen in any other editor is the tree view of open buffers. It's 100% outstanding.

Alas, it's not enough to make me stick with it.
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You realize IE8 is the default browser that shipped with Windows 7, right?
Which other libraries would those be? (I'm serious.)

There were several fairly well known libraries a couple of years ago, but as far as I can tell, jQuery won that battle decisively. It has almost 100% penetration in the projects I'm familiar with that use a general purpose JS library, and it seems to be the default for articles and blog posts I find on-line these days too.

Part of that success came from the ecosystem reaching critical mass. Many people know jQuery. Many plug-ins are available for jQuery. And the vast installed base usually means quick bug fixes even for recent browser compatibility problems.

If there is something out there that is better by a wide enough margin to justify giving up that established ecosystem, I'd love to hear about it. The ecosystem has plenty of imperfections, but I haven't come across anything yet that seems nearly comprehensive enough to displace the incumbent here.
OMG OMG OMG... One big alignment problem. Please read this: http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2011/05/quick-fix-up-redesign-o...

Fix up your alignment and spacing problems. It shouldn't take more than a few padding, margin, and width adjustments.
and what were your impressions?
The problem is you will always want to put the tablet on the internet, because it is useless without it. It is an extra burden to take your phone out and turn tethering on everytime you want to pick up your tablet.
>since they don't have anything comparable to App Engine.

True, but other services that are comparable to App Engine (as I understand it) use AWS. So Amazon is still getting a nice slice of that.
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