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Just to be clear: we both are VERY interested by this site, and actually quite excited. It's better than any other related initiatives and we expect to try it out asap! It's just this detail made us tick...

Great initiative! But I find the screencaps on the landing page's slideshow very misleading imho. It displays some code repo... ok, now I'm a coder and just like others I'd be then inclined to ask myself "why would I use this instead of Github or Bitbucket?". And my gf is a neuroscientist and her gut reaction was "well... I don't code, how is this of any interest for me? I don't get it...".

I do meditate and it does help me solve problem on a large scale, with some perspective. But it's not magic, i.e. if I'm not in a calm room for long hours, I just can't code properly or be more productive. I used to have trouble sleeping (that's not really the case now) and I'd remain in bed doing nothing, expecting (hoping) sleep would come. Then I started noticing my breathing, and it became some sort of exercise. That was 7 years ago or so... Now every night I go to bed and I do the same routine: notice and control (more or less) my breathing, nothing else. I'm quickly engulfed by thousands of thoughts and the trick is just maintaining the routine for as long as it takes for them to calm down, observing them in a non-judgemental way, waiting. It's a bit of a leap of faith, that part. I can hardly describe the sense of clarity that strikes me after that... I actually believe this simple routine helped me a lot in getting rid of a general anxiety I use to have when I was a teenager, and find a better sleep (with richly symbolic dreams during the night that proved to provide a lot of "subconscient" answers to day-to-day or creative problems), among other things.

Haha :)

Yes, I agree. Haxe has been that nifty little platform and language I've been contemplating on the side, tried a little, but never really had the opportunity to use seriously.

Easy now...

If I understood correctly what est meant... For non coders, maybe an actual WYSIWYG? Or even for coders, as a rapid-prototyping tool?

I don't know work at Adobe so I wouldn't know, really.

My only guess would be based on "The Innovator's Dilemma", at least roughly... so acknowledging the disruptiveness of HTML5 would imply refocusing their priorities in a mid/long-term strategic move: maybe rethinking how Flash should be used (i.e. game creation platform instead of RIAs) and buying startups involved in the disruption.

More a sane, opportunistic move for the business, rather than a judgement over the objective quality of a product.

To be fair with Muse, I've tried the first public beta some time ago and I admit the produced code was a sad laughable mess. I had to opportunity to reopen my try-out site on the latest public release, did an export, and took time to compare: it's much, much better. Seeing how fast their release iteration is, and the short time between the two tests I did, I turned from mocking skeptic to actual...hmmm... believer(?).

That is of course, considering the main target for the product is not me or my peers but rather non-coders... I'm always better off on my own with my big hairy hands on the keyboard typing my code.

>the decisions have been detrimental to the Internet >population as whole

Absolutely. We're still paying the price(s) now...

>A few years later Adobe AGREED with this >by discontinuing Flash on Android. Is this "agreement" a fact you can unambiguously prove by pointing out to some statement from an Adobe person, or is this a subjective assumption. Another subjective assumption there: company losing the game because of a disruptive product? I sure hope they acknowledge this pronto and refocus to cope with the changes!

Thank you for posting this.

And for instance, you could say that "iOS's dislike of the technology" was nothing more than a strategic move from Apple and Jobs to win a battle of content over the channel, where the money lies, but you chose or forget to acknowledge this in your discourse; I just don't see how it is any different from MS or Adobe or any other corporation trying to do what they are supposed to do: making profit.

Also, ouch on the "poor piece of engineering"... If I recall it has been able to help push some usage of the web forward (Youtube? Before Flash?), and foster creative content (anyone been working in the game or ad industry these past decade could testify... I'm talking Art Directors and Flash devs on websites, not annoying page ads). Or maybe I'm wrong on this - if so, please someone correct me. I don't remember Java succeeded in this field.

I don't want to start a flame war, it's just this anti-someone view, whoever that may be, raises my eyebrow all the time. As far as I know they do what _every_ other company on the field does: use and protect their hero assets for as long as they can, then catch up with the disruptive tech as soon as they penetrate.

While we're at it... When I started learning code a decade ago I was struggling with the syntax: remembering it, avoiding typo when typing on the keyboard... What worked was actually learning from books and writing the code on a block of paper by hand, before actually moving on to the computer. I've always used this method when studying a new language and it still works beautifully for me.