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So between Apple's ritzy kickass mobile PCs and the boatloads of sub-$100 chinese Androids that will flood the market soon, is there any room for a third platform? I really don't see anything stopping RIM and Microsoft from ending up at the same dead end.

I'm kind of sadistically hoping Anonymous comes through on their promise and starts some kind of Facebook apocalypse like that.

Who needs innovation anymore when you can just copy your competition feature-for-feature, subsidize with ad revenue, give it away for free, and acquire patent protection?

Once Apple's vertical model started working, everyone was jealous.

The Microsoft Kinect is by far the most genuinely futuristic piece of technology I've used this year. It's something that didn't even exist last year at this time, and has clearly pushed technology, in general, into entirely new territory.

Also, Apple stands to gain even more dominance at the expense of carriers should next-gen wifi (802.22) ever take hold and make GSM data plans obsolete.

I don't get why the developing world needs to be the first market. They could sell to the camping and boating market first, make millions, and expand worldwide later.

I bought myself a whiteboard. And on it I write down all the tasks (large and small) and milestones to completing my project. The board obviously goes through revisions as the project grows and morphs. But it does something really important that I wasn't doing before.

I too get a thrill from starting a new project because it's still just a dream but seems acheivable. There's probably some cogsci reason for this, dopamine levels and so on. And when the project starts to drag on you're not getting that dopamine hit anymore and so you get an urge to start a new project to get that rush again.

What you need to do is learn to get a thrill from completing milestones. Being able to cross off one of the tasks on that whiteboard feels awfully damned good. I keep the crossed off tasks on the board for a while because I find that thrill of completing it lasts for a while and keeps me motivated to cross off the next one.

They have another version that is silent, dreamplug.

You can use one of these as a router:

http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-guruplugdetails.asp...

It has 2 ethernet jacks, wifi, and draws 5W.

Does siege support benchmarking gzipped HTTP responses? This is something ab doesn't seem to do and it's starting to annoy me.

When any company says they want to hire someone who thinks they'rea rock star it actually gauarantees they won't be able to hire the real thing.

A Future Shop representative told me only 5 HP WebOS tablets were sold in all Future Shop stores in Ontario.

Indeed. Dropbox has validated the market and there probably is room for competitors because there are a lot of use-cases and power-user specific features that Dropbox doesn't cover and might not even want to.

That's a very succinct way of putting it. Google is smelling more like Microsoft every day.

If it's publically accessible and not password or rate-limited then it's fair game for hackers to goof around with. Just don't base your startup on a (any) Google API.

When a revenue stream has been found.

pg covered this nicely:

http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html

You don't have to work 80-90 hr/week. But if you don't, then you probably aren't an entrepreneur.

They should start by trying to design a Starwisp:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starwisp

Yeah and just as easily you can put a try/catch around your code and do the same ajax logging.

You can do this pretty easily without a third-party by just using window.onerror, and then doing an ajax request to log it.

NoSQL obeys the second law of thermodynamics. Expect MORE fragmentation in the future, not less.

I guess imitating famous JavaScript programmers is a new pastime of HN users.

I thought it was silly how everyone was going apeshit the last time this happened. Even here on HN people were falling over themselves proclaiming the end of the cloud. But you know what, I kind of like seeing outages like this because it means Amazon is (hopefully) going to reduce the risk of a bug like this ever happening again which in the end just makes the platform more reliable in the future.

I haven't tried this yet, but it's on my list of things to do.

Jailbreak your Iphone, and get NodeJS working on it:

https://tootallnate.net/nodejs-on-ios

That device could then become the host for both browsers, the local Safari, and any other device on the network. Or true peer-to-peer could be accomplished by getting NodeJS instances on two iOS devices talk directly to eachother.

Nobody uses that library anyways.

Fixing the economy will require more than entrepreneurs. I think it will ultimately require major socio-economic reform, possibly a conversion to Technocracy. Technology isn't just eliminating jobs, it's eliminating trade altogether.

I can replace my watch with a smartphone app. That means the watchmaker, supply chain, retail store, and clocksmith are all out of business. And 3D printers could be the next mega-disruptive technology. What happens to manufacturing of all kinds when we have Star Trek style repicators in our basements?

I'm just not convinced that entrepreneurship alone can combat the major macroeconomic changes that are coming.

This is Zuckerburg's passive-aggressive way of laying off employees.

I think the bigger problem is Objective-C isn't a desirable programming language to begin with, and therefore another language based on it is even less desirable.