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I think Wikimedia would have a harder time to justify their spending.

That is ironic. This GitLab project couldn't even host itself yet: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq

Or I could just be wrong, that their goal could simply as if they don't want people to share code with GitLab.

Without first trying an app I wouldn't recommend to my friends. However I couldn't properly evaluate this app without my friends also trying.

If all have to buy a copy, the decision to buy would become a collective one which the chance of buying this app would be even lower.

Further, as this is the first app by the author, there is no track record as a reference.

Hope you understand my reasoning for why social apps should be free at least at the beginning.

The whole domain would redirect back to google.com. Last night when I went to Googlelabs.com via the newest announcement of retirement of services from google [1] was indeed the last time I visited it.

The fact that many of the labs projects are still active made it much uneasy to find those products anymore.

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[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-sweep.html

Just a comparison, Mozilla Foundation spent 62.8 million US dollars for software development, unclear for how much is spent on staff.

ref: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2010/fa...

I thought I was seeing some screen shots from Mac OS X.

see: http://www.informit.com/library/content.aspx?b=Mac_OS_X_Unle...

Please note that the above book reference is written in 2001.

I think they have incorporated many features from Sysinternals' (now part of Microsoft TechNet) famous Process Explorer.

I think most of us would love to give feedback, but at first glance it seems requires all the "friends" to use the same paid app is not something easy to tag along.

Besides, I am using Android now ;-) so...

Just a side note, for solutions that needs social networking to work, it would be extremely hard to charge people up front. You gonna have to give it away for free (first) to earn some viral effects to kick in.

I guess, I am just not using enough of wordpress.

You may get away with having some forms of caching. Using python won't help given you have no caching.

Robert's article: http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/08/why-if-you-miss-siri-youll-...

I guess most of us here in hacker news would have known Siri (from Sri) from its first public release. Many of us here also would have watched that Youtube video describing this amazing combination of technology. I guess I didn't feel any magic comes from the fact that I am not living in the US (so the app means nothing to me)

I still find flight attendants young and attractive (a present fact, not some dream or whatsoever). The thing is, it's just not so happening in US airlines, but in Asian airlines. Policies on age requirement have let the state as is, even there are also unions in those airline companies.

When Siri was first available, there were almost no underpinnings on it would be the next big thing or how important it would be. Suddenly, after this general release on a limited hardware, we suddenly find it the next big thing.

Can I put my facebook profile to this too? (the one in facebook seems to be broken)

My crashplan subscription is still ongoing, so I have my backups covered already. However crashplan doesn't offer file sharing features, that is a plus for this.

Note that backed up files can be accessed through mobile apps, just that it could be a security risk for accessing files on the go.

Seems that hacker news' design is not adequate for fighting against carefully crafted spam.

It goes by a name called Peter Cartier (from various sources) but who knows if that even represents a real person.

Please correct me if I am wrong, if this post is promoted by accounts that are frequently used or just dummies.

Well yes so we all have to buy the eBook. Thanks for suggesting links, flmyngo.

All the links within the article are pointing to some landing page.

I used it may be once when it was in beta and then never touched. The thing is, C# as well as Java have poor startup time which becomes the biggest problem of using any of such applications.

I don't always have a SSD on my computers.

I think most of us here also are having the same issues.

Perhaps he read this

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/the-upside-of-quittin...

(discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3071854 )

In Siri's case you can't even download the app right now. Of course downloading would mean nothing, because the server for that app is closing on Oct 15.

Having articles edited and organized for peer review would then make users of those materials pay for a large sum is still unjustified, given that the cost of producing the material is largely not paid by the publisher.

You may say that the cost of getting an article for $25 is fair given the amount of work done by the publisher is fair, but the author, to my knowledge (since I am not an author of any sorts) they don't receive any payment due to these transactions. I am noy paying for the editing and publishing, I am only paying for the content (more true to CS / science fields, where TeX stuff are pretty common)

What really need to change is the journal oriented way of publishing papers, we don't need to have stuff printed these days, as far as my university life went, I have only read one or two articles in printed form because I happened to be inside the library.

As much as computerized content goes, layout and stuff are much more automatic, and by providing writers with better and simplier tools, we may be able to save more trees by going digital.

Is cache:xxx method still working?

If more universities support this kind of policies, the momentum could break the current problem of priced access to results of research that are not in any way, paid by the journal publishers. As indicated by the article, peer reviewers are not paid for that, and so merely the editors are paid in due course. However, charging for the price of what an article needs, is far from what the cost could really justify itself with.

Just have a thought, do we really need journal publishers these days? It was once a time we don't have any means than print publishing to exchange views, now we have the series of tubes to do so.

I can't say how much I like this ban. For so many times since I left school and wanted to read an article or so, and be greeted with "summary" of that article. I don't really need to pay $25, for the fact that the journal may have obtained the copyright and sold it to some journal sites.

We could use some open-source concepts for paper publishing.

Mine is still here.

(Just don't get me wrong, what I really miss is the "Related" link)

"He could take the safe bet and accept the $30 million that Google was offering him for Friendster, the social networking Web start-up he began only a year earlier, in 2002. Saying yes to Google would provide a quick and stunning payout for relatively little work and instantly place the Friendster Web site in front of hundreds of millions of users across the globe."

Well, I don't really know.

If ICS would run nicely on tablets, it would have some meaning.

They still haven't open sourced Android 3.0, in which they said they would never release that part of Apache licensed code to the public.

So there could then be a possibility, again be hidden APIs so that their tablet app offerings could be better than others.

I personally think that, if you claim open source, some should be able to obtain the code if they are using the software itself. I clearly don't think a normal android tablet user would reasonably grab a copy of that source code.

At least the "native" facebook for android uses web pages to serve you the feed and comments.