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Like so many industries (photography comes to mind), it's incredibly easy now to get something done. It may not be awesome, but it'll be complete.

NASA needs better Marketing.

Amazing and Awesome. Congrats.

A proper logging solution:

ELK - elasticsearch - logstash -kibana

A docker image will have you up and running in minutes.

If you're looking for open-source, mature "analytics" solution, then checkout Snowplow analytics

I assume (correct me if I'm wrong) its OK for a company to have an employee maintain their Wikipedia page (i.e. the employee is being paid).

What about a contractor? In other words, I'm wondering where the line is on paid editing being a bad thing.

Mailinator has a Saas option for this (api, private domain, etc).

http://mailinator.com/featurematrix.jsp

Applets were a grand idea and probably responsible for spawning other (more usable) tech in this space. Or at least showing people what was possible.

Of course they sadly ended as a staggering failure.

Epic loading times of the JVM were the practical death knell. A grand-canyon of a security hole was the deal sealer.

Serious question: Even if Theranos goes down in flames, won't she walk away from this with a fortune? Maybe not quite the fortune she thought, but still many millions?

Sad news. RIP Ed and thanks for all the books.

This is data I'm grateful to have and at the same time, can't believe someone went to all the trouble to get it !

Fair enough - but they really were up against some extraordinary competitors.

nice!

Is too clean really making us sick? Seems like it encourages allergies and such

Don't the late stage investors get hurt in these deals also? Why would they get in at such a high valuation?

Performance is all that ends up mattering at the end of the day. Both Apple and Pixar ended up as wild successes - so yes, Jobs could effectively run both (in hindsight).

The futures for both Twitter and Square are not so sure. At face value, seems like a net positive for Twitter and a net negative for Square.