guywithabike

I applaud the effort, but I guess I don't really understand what, exactly, it is. A GitHub clone? Hosted Git with no interface?

For example, take your first sentence: "Gitlab is an open source solution for version control of your coding projects." Doesn't that describe Git itself?

Assuming that Gitlab is an open source GitHub-alike, I'd make that clear right up top: "Gitlab is hosted Git with an open source web front-end." Then, if possible: screenshots.

I wouldn't make the one private repo your selling point, either, as others have pointed out. I would go with the open source angle -- that's your only real differentiating feature (that I know of), and the one that you should really emphasize.

10 hours? You've never written a line of code in your life, I gather.

Seemingly simple features can be incredibly complex to implement, especially when you're operating at the scale that GitHub is.

It's odd to me that no one seems to be noting that the video doesn't show a single second of actual use. It's all mockups and pre-rendered scenes. Is that not extremely concerning to the commenters saying that they already want to buy one?

Why doesn't the article talk to any of the startups in nReduce, let alone mention them by name? Lazy tech journalism?

They've made a lot of those kinds of promises -- they don't often deliver, so parent poster is right to feel uneasy about future support.

And even worse, still, in that it's being offered by the same people behind the WakeMate disaster: broken promises, long waits, defective units, poor software, non-existent support, and power plugs that burst into flames.

Remember when they promised that they were going to ship power plugs that didn't catch on fire? They never did that.

How often do you replace the battery and hard drive?

Because that's confusing as hell.

This is far and away the most shameful comment I've ever read on Hacker News.

Because it was a business dispute, I think he (rightly) wants to move past that instead of emphasizing it over and over.

Even better: You can't even read all the terms and conditions on the iPhone version. It stops scrolling at some point and just cuts off.

I've never uninstalled a browser plugin so quickly. It really is just what you think it is: a 2001-era search toolbar, except without the useful list of search results. Just thumbnails that tell you nothing about the result.

So... You haven't actually made anything besides the marketing page?

You didn't read anything on the page, did you?

They both have descriptive, helpful websites.

Let's Make Mistakes didn't "split off". They paid to be on the 5by5 network and once they established themselves, they moved it to their own network. No funny business there, basically.

My favorite part is that he opens with two lines about what he hates about Facebook IPO stories. The rest of the article is, then, exactly one of those articles.

Doesn't seem to work for me. I just get the following error in the console:

    soundManager.createSound(): Audio support is not available.

;_;

Edit: Reloaded and it seems to be working now. YES.

For the record: it took 8 people to design and implement their new icons. 8 people.

Based on what data?

Curious. I always used to get my 2600 from their shelves, and they were always prominently displayed.

What's your job / how do you pay your bills?

Because "expectations" are just wild-ass guesses.

iPad sales are up 150% year over year. How that's disappointing, I'll never know.

Really annoying to try to read your marketing copy because it keeps scrolling away.

And why do you delay the page load just so you can do a fade in animation?

It seems like half the things you have on the page are there to prevent me from finding out what you guys do.

450 ops/sec is nothing.

What's your breakdown between the operation types, and what kind of hardware are you on?

It's not too shabby. It's rough around the edges still, and development is fairly slow. It crashes every few hours, but thankfully it recovers really well -- when you re-open it, all your buffers, saved or not, are there.

I've got a fairly large investment in TextMate bundles right now (lots of custom stuff that makes life super easy for me), so I've been sticking around through the nasty alpha phase.

Overall? It's alpha quality. Just what it says on the tin. But it's not so bad that you can't use it for daily use.

The problem isn't the iPad, the problem is probably you. There's nothing stopping you from "creating" with an iPad.

Such are the vagaries of being a large corporation -- your various departments' goals become increasingly at odds with one another. The Android team wants their platform to be successful. Part of that means not releasing top-tier applications for competing platforms. Gmail wants their service to be successful. Part of that means releasing top-tier applications for as many platforms as possible.

It's clear, here, that Google places Gmail below Android in their list of priorities. I'm curious about which one of those departments earns more money, though, and which one is more strategically important for the long-term success of Google.

John Siracusa explains this same scenario as it appears to be happening at Apple extremely well in this episode of his fantastic podcast: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/8

It's fairly unclear to me how this works. Clicking on the "Use Theme" buttons doesn't do anything. The "Working" and "History" buttons in the left panel don't do anything. You can't scroll the sidebar at all, so content is just cut off. So far, it seems like a complete non-starter. I have no idea what the hell this site does, anyways. It's just templates for so-called "infographics"?

Worse, the screen is completely filled with "social" buttons. They're in the header, they're in the sidebar, and they're in the footer. Furthermore, the "Follow us on Twitter" button is pre-checked so that if you try to log in via Twitter, you automatically get subscribed to their account. That's a douchey move.

Seems to me that the purpose of the site is to spam you with crap. The site seems so skeezy that I daren't "log in to Twitter" through their site.

You can submit a pull request.