trickjarrett

I hate that the client claims network problems rather than showing an error for their system being down.

I'm more than happy to toss the idea around with you, I think it's an interesting idea and if it reached critical mass it could do really well - but I'm skeptical it could get there and that the price points would be such that consumers would be interested.

I was toying with a similar idea though it's more akin to the Netflix model for clothes.

You'd basically pay an up front cost, say $XXX and then you would be able to order a week's worth of clothes. Then you'd mail the clothes back for laundering before being sent out again.

It is really a half-baked idea and requires a sizable amount of logistics, etc. But it was an interesting concept to toss around.

More likely they're fixing stuff. That's a WP plugin which puts your site into maintenance mode.

Out of genuine curiosity, what percent of uptime would be worth managing your own infrastructure?

Google does have bad customer service when they're working through the normal channels. But Google Employees are awesome. I got personal attention from core G+ devs when I broke my G+ profile.

The point is if you can build relationships with Google employees rather than with Google itself then you too can get this sort of amazing help.

There's nothing sinister or crazy about this. Rather than being one in a million, become one in a circle of friends or acquaintances.

While I understand Jobs' anger, I also can't help but remember how the Mouse was "stolen" from Xerox and other such tales in Apple's history. It comes across as "it's okay when I do it but not when Google does."

Looks like the wrong URL was submitted, probably meant to submit: http://blogmaverick.com/2011/10/14/my-soapbox-advice-to-the-...

It's sad to think about, but with the flood of text being printed I wonder how much of it was pre-written and how much of it was simply pre-thought as those in the circles heard word.

I use Tab Groups mainly for task related stuff, as well as using a tab group to allow for a read later style of interface. But no, it's not a major thing for me, I've used Chrome for the past few months and not missed Tab groups.

Tim is pure infotainment. Some of his stuff is crazy and over the top, and it is mainly there as great fodder for talk shows.

Terrible is not the right word, 'unthinkingly destructive' perhaps.

I got a virus warning from eset when I opened up his site.

I had moved away from ST2 and back to e for a while, but I'll give ST2 another whirl.

Will you be posting the answers after this concludes? I solved #1 but am afraid I won't get #2.

This was my initial thought as well, how can this technology be used to implement Google's Send Feedback functionality.

Kevin Rose was right, if someone can build that as a service, they would do quite well.

Duplicate: Was already posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2789714

Mea culpa.

Am in the process of planning a redesign of a site, looking forward to working with this.

For anyone who comes back across this, yes you can put people in an infinite number of circles.

> Hopefully you can drop friends into more than one circle.

I noticed this too in the demo, I have to believe you'll be able to.

Can a mod please fix the typo in the title?

I was surprised by this as well, my top comments were on the whole, rather forgettable.

This is an app idea I've turned over a hundred times but never dove into.

Nicely done, worked perfectly in FF4.

Agreed, it is far from the future of super computing. But it provides an interesting first iteration for a potential future model of income off of websites.

I had the same confusion, and the sentence which explains it was less than clear to me - I had to reread it to be clear on what it was saying.

That's damn impressive.

I'm reading "The Starfish and the Spider" right now, though I'm early into the book, this system fascinates me. I find the illiteracy which both videos touched on equally fascinating as the system evolved around the workers' abilities rather than finding workers able to fit the system.

Kudos to you for saying and admitting the hard things for the startup entrepreneur. Failing sucks. Struggling to not fail sucks even more because it can just drain you. Best of luck :)

I'm listening to it now, I'm hoping to get it added to my cable package so I don't have to follow it online or on my phone.

They're saying that we've had his body for a week, it's only coming to light tonight because word leaked through congressional aides. Presumably they were waiting for confirmation beyond doubt.