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"To sum it up:

* BrowserID renamed to Mozilla Persona

* Personas renamed to Background Themes

* Themes are now Complete Themes"

They have a working native support - http://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/mozilla/persona/2011/07/15/m... - and expect it to see it natively in probably ~17. Their biggest push is for WebKit to adopt a similar solution based off the same tech.

* Logo is ambiguous and looks like a generic button

* "Mozilla" in the name instantly steers away other browsers

We've implemented it on LinkUp (https://www.linkup.com/account/), love the technology, and REALLY hope the adoption of it takes off - but until I can explain it to a user in 2 sentences, it won't claim the throne.

I don't think anyone is arguing that Indeed would still exist had the $5M not come around. The point is that the $5M helped Indeed purchase the traffic/partnerships necessary to make it the #1 job search site on the internet. And without that money, they couldn't have bought their way to their current size - and their current size is reasons 1, 2 and 3 they were acquired.

Not bootstrapping: $5M in VC.

There is no "partially bootstrapped," you either are or aren't. Can somebody update the headline?

I think you should start figuring out where it forked from the original code base & generate a diff from that. Then throw a bunch of tools, from Cacti to Xdebug/APC's control panel, to get a good handling of the current benchmarks. Get the code into a SCM (probably git), then start tackling current bugs & feature-requests - BEFORE you start tearing down to the baseboards.

After a month or two of that, you'll see the first pain points. Going after the pain points one at a time, rather than all at once, will keep your client happy and you sane.

Looks to me like it just exposes many of the out-of-the-box Linux terminal features that aren't immediately obvious & require Googling to setup. But saying that it is so amazing it alone warrants ditching Linux and going Mac is a ridiculous statement that certainly wasn't intended to be taken at face value.

The point is that there are solutions offering equivalent speed without that barrier, so why select a technology that has limitations?

Go with Redis for storing session data.

For my developers getting new machines, I tell them to split the HD into 3 partitions: Windows, Ubuntu and Mint - give each a one-week shot and then stick with what feels best.

I'm hopeful to see app.net take off, but have been unable to find any arguments/discussions talking about how app.net will succeed where DIASPORA failed.

(Ignoring the obvious of having a better name, of course!)

Otherwise, these discussions are pointless.

Given the massive role Twitter played in Egypt's protests, I wonder if such a thing would still be possible given Twitter's current corporate philosophy. And the fact that I even have to wonder that, now, is why we're blaming Twitter.