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idea != execution

I'm sure no one was "forced" to sign the contract, but by not signing it and agreeing to Microsoft's terms, you could not distribute Windows and other Microsoft products with your computer..

Antitrust or not, most Gates biographies I've read touch on aspects of cheating or questionable ethics. Microsoft has a history of using predatory pricing through OEM distribution and/or giving products away to establish its monopolies.

The issue here is not about adding new features, but fixing bugs and security issues.

Perhaps the 94% are not tech savvy enough to identify these problems?

Incidentally, I've read that specific example of adding Gantt charts to Basecamp before: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1050-ask-37signals-how-do...

The full text of the article quoted Gates saying he sent emails like that all the time - that was his job. http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821...

I do think the confusion was real. And it kind of makes sense when you think about it.

Bill Gates was very involved in Microsoft code, to the point where he used to review all code, even after Microsoft was no longer a tiny startup. He was a programmer, after all.

But that kind of thing doesn't scale. Especially when you have thousands of programmers, dozens of divisions all with "product managers", and many many products..

He obviously tried to stay in touch with Microsoft products as best as he could. But his role changed over time in his company - he could no longer be the chief code writer.

Even if it is not a "major" bug, why has it taken more than a year to fix? Unless 37signals does not consider it to be significant?

Link to actual framework: http://www.sproutcore.com/about/

I'm confused.. how is this Apple's Javascript library? It was not written by Apple and the author (and his company) don't appear to have any affliation with Apple..

This information is "different than that of Obama's nomination". It is about how numbers can be misleading. In this case, the government is holding corporations to a higher standard than they hold themselves. They are obscuring the truth about the deficit by using a different method of accounting.

I don't really think it is hacker related news, though.

"The application is still in development and does not have a timeline for release yet, so few concrete details are available."

Maybe we'll hear more during/after WWDC next week?

A TV with better analytics..

"But just think about how much further along that understanding curve the company would be now, instead of letting the fear of cannibalization push it away. At some point, the company will have to grab that nettle firmly, and it’s not going to get any easier — if anything, it’s only going to get harder."

I don't think Microsoft CAN catch up.

Seems like a lose-lose situation for Twitter. Before they just had errors saying "oops, try again".. but they had so much downtime that people wanted more transparency. Now they have errors that say "we lost a database" and people are saying that's too much information. (I probably would not have made that an error message, but that's just me.)

I think Twitter should stop caring what everyone (especially TechCrunch) thinks and just fix the technical issues. And please fix it soon, because users are getting tired of the same problems!

No wonder they can't control spending - no one is being honest about how excessive the spending actually is!

I hope Obama can help clean up this mess..

Really liking this new feature. And it loads nice and quick, too. Thanks guys!

I overheard PG talking about this at Startup School and I have been looking forward to it since. I'm excited to hear they will be open sourcing their framework in the future..

I can't wait to start using this framework.

Wow! They have done an amazing job! Definitely light years ahead of anything else I've seen (that works in a web browser)..

The time zone handling is a nice feature. It has already made my life easier..

"It’s staggering that PayPal has not fixed this most basic payment issue immediately."

Have you ever tried to get customer service from eBay or PayPal? Enough said..

I think I'm more qualified to sit on Yahoo's board than most of the current and proposed board members. At least I use Yahoo's services, both in search, search marketing, Flickr, del.icio.us, and their many APIs etc..

>> seems the somewhat successful strategy for building content on these community apps is allowing either illegal or unscrupulous behavior to build traffic, and then nix it when you're big enough to survive on your own.

I think that's purely coincidental. :)

This was the right decision for Scribd. Most of the "adult" content on Scribd was spammy crap anyway, feeble attempts at trying to get people to sign up to Adult Friend Finder or whatever.

Haven't tried Rubinius yet myself, but being able to run rails on it is a huge milestone.

Some of the benefits of Rubinius, from what I've heard so far:

- uses modern techniques to decrease memory usage and increase throughput

- less memory change per additional mongrel instance

- capability for precompiled code (similar to java .jar files)

- better performance

- better error reporting

- profiling has less impact on performance

I think it could totally change the rails landscape as we know it.

http://rubyconf2007.confreaks.com/d2t1p3_rubinius.html

http://www.slideshare.net/evanphx/rubinius-improving-the-rai...

What if your work _is_ the internet? What if I need to be connected in order to test web applications, update my sites, and commit to subversion and git file repositories?

I'm going to try out 8aweek..

An incentive may not be required, but it definitely helps.

For example: I joined PayPal 10 years ago because my friend coaxed me into it. PayPal paid me $5 for joining and paid my friend $5 for inviting me. We invited lots of people..

On the other hand, consider GMail. It was just so massively superior to anything else out there that as soon as I heard about it I was hooked. GMail was (and is) free, but back then people were actually paying for invites..

Unless you know what you need to scale to, you can't even begin to talk about scalability. How many users do you want your system to handle? A thousand? Hundred thousand? Ten million? Here's a hint: the system you design to handle a quarter million users is going to be different from the system you design to handle ten million users.

http://teddziuba.com/2008/04/im-going-to-scale-my-foot-up-y....

I think someone just went through and docked everyone's karma, just for saying they like Heroku. Umm.. WTF?

Heroku is awesome. PG says "make something people want", and Heroku definitely embodies that for me. Congrats to them!!

One of my favorite open source Google Analytics alternatives is phpTrafficA. You don't need to agree to Google's TOS to use it, and you can integrate it easily via either Javascript or two unobtrusive lines of PHP code. http://soft.zoneo.net/phpTrafficA/

"The person may look like a hero, coming in to solve crisis after crisis, when in fact the crises could have been avoided. Sometimes, the workaholic may have unwittingly created the problems to provide the endless thrill of more work."

I've had a few jobs with big organizations where they expected long hours, and it would be a stretch to say that I created the problems.

I think whether or not your organization hits "crisis mode", and how often, is something that company leadership and management needs to control. They can't cry wolf all the time - it is not good for your people's morale (and sanity) to push them that hard all the time.