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I think he was trying to say it's matured away from its origins (in a good way).

I've used http://wacchen.com/

No wonder the location lookups are so slow.

Usability and quickstarts/documentation ARE marketing.

This pretty much sums up why I made a Shamwow inspired commercial for my project (RestSharp): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2460298

I also had stickers made that I mail to contributors and promoters. If I had the cash, I'd make tshirts. All of this makes the project feel vibrant and alive which inspires people to participate and contribute.

Please grow up and stop using 'M$'. It's not cool or clever anymore (if it ever was) and it undermines any good points you might be making.

While I see why people would do this, I think it would ruin the site. When people are forced to use their real identity I've found the quality is always much higher.

Except she doesn't have web sites for all the other startups. Registering the domain and dedicating the site to them is enough to show me that she really cares about working there specifically.

As far as demonstrate a problem that needs to be solved and how you can solve it...that would be a lot harder to do without risking sounding elitist and condescending. Maybe they don't have a problem that needs to be solved, they just need to do more of what they're doing. If she's a fit, they'll recognize that she can do that for them based on this site.

You simultaneously disprove and prove his point all in one post.

Windows Live Mail (the desktop client formerly known as Outlook Express) also offers resizing options when sending.

Without hashtags, you can still do most of this with regular ol' keyword searches. So I think search is your real enemy here, not hashtags.

You could have defended your point without the name calling. You're just undermining your otherwise correct point with crap like that.

If you want getgrapevine.com let me know (see profile)

And you can pitch the .json extension with proper content negotiation.

Accepts: application/json

Discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2254951

I hear they addressed this in the Q&A after their presentation at LAUNCH, but I'd like to see them pull in more external services. StackOverflow is only one small part of my online identity. GitHub is much more representative and I'd like to include things like my Hacker News and Twitter stats as well.

I recently made a rough mockup of what I called 'Devume' to show the concept behind a living resume for developers: http://screencast.com/t/FRwVor0hnm If anyone wants devume.com and @devume to make it real, it's all yours.

Major sports are the last thing keeping me tied to my satellite dish. Once I can get any game live online, it's gone.

I love Hipmunk except for that it only gives me limited options for purchasing at the end. I'm guessing this is to maximize their referral revenue, but I have status on an airline and only purchase from their site directly. If I purchase from another site I have less control over changes to my itinerary after purchase. That's my preferred airlines fault, but other sites like Bing Travel let me click through the results right to my airlines' web site.

All of those things are very easy to implement with Twilio (which I thought even before I started working there).

signatures are discouraged here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think it's a pretty safe bet he's involved in this decision.

I got distracted after the first link to the product :) This is right up my alley, so I'm definitely going to try things out and hopefully have good reasons to pay.

I'm hesitant to pay since I can't see any examples of what I'd get. A short trial would be great.

Lots of things are successful without MS endorsement. If the integration had been as good as it was when it launched, yes. Only MS was willing to dedicate the resources to make that happen (VS addins, gallery site, etc).

Do you have inside knowledge of their framework? Did you know wasabi has memoization and heap of other things frameworks like .NET don't even have? They spent a lot more than 2 months on Wasabi. I think your information is outdated.

Except when it came time to move to .NET/Mono, they only had to update their compiler to generate IL instead of rewriting the whole app from scratch. Sounds smart to me.

Joel wrote the spec for Copilot, so it's a little unfair to claim he had nothing to do with it.

It was first created by non-MS guys, and there are others out there by community members. MS decided to form an officially-endorsed open source project for NuGet. Pretty good model actually. It's a collaboration of MS employees and community members and they take outside contributions. Not sure what's wrong with that. It needed to be in VS to take off.

The organic community is there, it's just not the dominant one but it has a significant presence.

I'd say 20 hours sounds about right.