This is seriously cool! this really brought up some very fond memories of a movie I really really like. Thanks for posting.
Growing up I always like the UX they had for things in star-trek TNG. Back then in the nineties touch based interfaces were really something out of a sci-fi movies, and now 20 years later they're commonplace, which gets me to the point - is there anyone working on a starr trek like JS UX framework? That would be so cool!
A vey interesting post. I'm actually excited about the ability to pa by mail and in general paying for things online in a more convenient way than having to create accounts at all these web sites and then having to fill my personal and payment details. Having said that, I do agree with the author that indeed we are moving (albeit sometimes too slowly to realize) into a more passive state of existence where more is done for us and we sometime loss some of the subtle qualities of human connections. Having siad that - what can you do? progress is progress and while we might feel sentimental sometime we have no option or alternative but to adapt ourselves to it.
I wish more companies would go down that road of actively encouraging the community to hack their products. There's a certain degree you need to have in your product to do this. I guess a lot of big companies don't have the kind of culture which would allow this to happen, regardless of the good it would do to the product.
It's a good call for action, but from my own experiences the cost of rebuilding things (time,money,breaking stuff) is so great, and there's no real incentive for anyone within the company to do so. On the bright side - this does open a window for new enterprise start ups to redo these kind of systems and win over large and legacy software.
Having worked in the industry for a while, my rubber duck is quite educated by now. I find he understands most of the applications I write (it wasn't so in the beginning!) and at times makes very helpful suggestions, although I'm loath to admit I don't always give him the positive feedback he so deserves.
The hardware looks great. The thing that bugs me about the pixel and chrome OS in general, is that I don't know a lot of people who can manage their day by day work using only web apps (no office, photoshop, autocad, eclipse, whatever). Web based replacements are good, but just not as good as desktop creation apps, and I'm still not even sure they need to be. The point is most people need win/Mac/Linux software and for the ones who don't (like my mom) - just get an iPad. Then again, I might be completely wrong here.
Interesting - My understanding of these was that by using this kind of open communication you'll be able to get(most) people to open up and tell you more about what they do, which might help as you as you make your way into an organization. When/how do you think this can put you in bad spot during negotiations?
Python is getting the respect it deserves. I'm interested to know whether someone here has experience to share in running Python under JPython in production ?
The only comfort in their maniacal prison system state is that they make funny propaganda videos (the one with "we are the world" should totally get an SNL cover). Other than that it's a complete human tragedy. Let's hope for a Korean spring soon..
Programming/administering SQL based DB apps is just such a hassle and pain that anything to replace that paradigm (NoSql,Hadoop,..) is such a welcome change. I hope that the open source community keeps leading this space, so we don't end up with MS, Oracle,HP, etc buying up the space and get us back to square one.
IE10 to me is like Bing, it almost doesn't matter what they do with it, the train has left the station. And as a web developer' even though they're catching up, don't get me started about it...
If Java programmers would only apply the concept of immutability the world be such a better place... Every time I log from within a setter to see who's calling this and when, a little fairy falls from the sky.
Java's a great server side tech (Scala,JRuby,etc..). Why we need it in a browser beats me.. I don't seem to have CPython running in my Chrome, why should I have Java? Can't remember the last I visited a site who had it.
In their defense you can say that at least the passwords were hashed - otherwise it would have been much more of a travesty. Even so, Evernote users (myself included) should prepare to have our Gmail work a bit harder against Spam (i assume the emails'll get sold) the next few months.
I would love to see more women in "hard" technology startups. There are too few women founders out there (a sad thing), and out of them a lot work on companies that appeal mostly to women. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but I would LOVE to see more women building complex tech startups - evening out the picture.
This OS has got virtually no apps. Not even office. It's almost sad. They should work till they drop to get blue stacks or build their own emulator to run android apps on this.
I'm actually a big believer in Glass. In my mind getting the average person to use them is actually simpler than it was to get them to use a cell phone. Everybody has sunglasses and they're used to wearing them (even indoors). With phones it was a complete new paradigm. People weren't used to carrying a phone with them and most didn't feel they needed to, and we saw how that went. As for pricing and design, 6 years ago phones were expensive bricks and look how far they've come. I feel the same about wearable computing and glasses especially.
I think the best way to work with customers (and I do believe you should) is not having theoretical discussions with them about the market or whether a new product can take off, but rather give them a number of tangible alternatives (can be mock ups) to play with and see how they react to them.
If only we could get to a point where we can use these for series A as well. Having to pay $50K for you (and your VC's) legal expenses for an SPA which is 95% boilerplate, is painful and something I pray can get standardized.