I see it as a divide between either having a client / designer relationship and making a custom theme or website, alternatively you could make a theme and sell it on something like Theme Forest(http://themeforest.net/).
I read some documentation and I don't think I entirely get the whole "emulate a network" thing. What can be done with that? What exactly is a network? What this project makes me think of is as if one would replace the internet with another substitute internet or intranet, but I don't think thats the case. Something that it makes me think of is the idea of downloading a website with something like sitesucker and then changing your host file so that you can browse the internet via saved pages on your computer. But I don't think that this Mininet project has anything to do with that. I'm interested in trying to "get-it" if anyone has a clearer more non-obscure definition of what this project entails.
I just tried to post this. I think this is quite interesting but would be more useful if we could import it over to production servers. I would love to have a discussion on this.
I've only recently heard of jekyll but have been searching or thinking about creating a markdown based blog for a while. I first discovered it through an article on the obama campaign, and how they used it in combination with AWS:S3 http://kylerush.net/blog/meet-the-obama-campaigns-250-millio.... Jekyll is here to stay.
You cant fight against open source. The masses will always side with open source. But I can't blame Chris Pearson for not wanting to mess with his cash flow. Chris needs to really start thinking Legacy > Currency.
This morning I was thinking wouldn't it be great if we had a yay query / diggnation style audio or video podcast breaking down the top stories on hackernews weekly or daily. Has this ever been done successfully? Would y-combiner get mad? If your interested in making a pilot episode, see where it goes let me know. talktr@gmail.com twitter@thomasreggi or cmt with your info.
This is really the only way to crack down on copyright issues, watermark each file with some information pining it to the buyer. When you combined this with the cloud, only or someone with your username can access the media (I'd bet they'd rather some biometrics). Interesting stuff.