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I upvoted because of AppCampus information.

I find his articles fun to read and thought-provoking. A lot of what he says goes against the conventional wisdom of the startup world or against my own way of doing things. So his ideas provide a good (and entertaining) opportunity to re-examine them.

Looks very well done! Shameless plug - we are working on something similar for the web: http://pllop.it

When making judgements like this, it is good to remember that your experience of a place depends not only on that place, but even more so on your own state of mind. When you see confusion all around you, you should honestly ask yourself how much of it is coming from your side.

Dane & the Saygent team, props for your response :)

Looks like they removed the controversial paragraph from their TOS. Great to see the common sense prevail.

Well, even though distractions are not direct cause of suffering, they are taking our attention away from coming up with creative solutions to those problems.

Didn't think much about the market yet. For now, it is more an experiment to see what can be done.

The app is based on Buddhist approach to mind training.

Thanks, corrected.

Thanks, will check it out.

A short demo video is now online. Hope it helps.

That's a valid point. We are thinking about letting users submit their profile into the global pool of people. With that the practice would not only cover friends but also people we don't know.

The idea of the app is not to communicate with people directly, but to see them from a different perspective - as human beings, equal to ourselves, deserving our affection and respect.

The app is based on Buddhist approach to developing love and compassion.

Would love to debug the Facebook connect issue. Feel free to contact me on matjaz [at] humane-tehnologije.si

Thanks! Corrected.

Video is now online.

You are right. We added empathy to the description.

Thank you for constructive feedback. There's no place like HN for that ;)

We took your advice to heart and changed the text to present the purpose and benefit of the app in a clearer way. Hope it helped.

Right now we are working on recording a short demo video. It should be online soon.

It would be opt-in, of course :)

I'm the app's author. We are thinking about letting users create their profiles in the app. That would be "practice material" for users without Facebook accounts. Another option would be using the address book on the phone.

OP here. We just released an iphone app that helps you keep focus on what's really important in your life / work. It's an effective tool to support ideas pg wrote about in The Top of My Todo List essey. The app is free till Wednesday. Enjoy!

In my experience it is worthwhile to learn native iOS development. Once you setup the environment and get used to XCode it is kind of fun and it doesn't take too much time. Knowledge of Android and iOS and optionally PhoneGap development will make you (or your team member) a better developer regardless of which technology you actually use. And based on that you will also be able to make an informed decision about which approach to use for a particular project.

From the cost planning perspective the promise doesn't help much. We need to know how much it costs and how much it will cost without relying on how other clients use the service.

Hope that helps. Wish you a lot of success with your venture!

Image manipulation + storage + CDN is a very interesting combination, especially if images can be uploaded straight from the browser, without travelling through the application server.

But for a service with large amount of user uploaded images (like we plan to have at http://pllop.it) pricing is the major issue. At $0.50 per GB you would be around 5 x more expensive than CloudFront and even they are expensive compared to other options.

If the price would be on the level of CloudFront with 10-30% premium for taking care of image manipulation, we would consider using such service.

Original post was a PDF file. This was posted to showcase Pllop, a solution for creating responsive websites.

Thanks for the feedback!

I'm the OP and co-founder of Pllop. We used Pllop to adapt Neil Davidson's presentation about efficient business plans into a responsive website. Layout adjusts to different screen sizes and orientations. Making-of video is included on the last page. Be gentle with it, we are still in beta ;-)

That's really extreme! Most people are not doing that.

On the other hand, take a look at increasing obesity rates and lack of skilled handyman in developed countries.

"You can get the next Harry Potter (or whatever replaces it) without leaving your couch."

"...without a human ever touching a carving tool."

Brrr... I got a vision of pig-fat humanoids permanently embedded in their couches that can't even hold a spoon with their degenerated clumsy hands :-)

That is a welcome change. Previously, Route 53 was useless for services that involve hosting user domains (web hosting, for example) because of $1/month charge per zone. 1000 low traffic sites would cost $1000 per month just for domain zones. With the new pricing the cost would be $110. That is close or even lower than what competitors are charging.

For those on HN who use Route 53: Would you recommend switching from another provider?

As if the rest of the web plays by the protocol rules. How about Amazon (and most other e-commerce sites) showing you the list of last viewed items? User state is obviously changed by GET requests. That's the reality of modern dynamic sites and I don't see any practical problem in this.

FoF (Fear of Facebook) is a really popular game these days :)