wavephorm

The world is full of so many possibilities, and so many broken half-baked solutionss, that if you can't think up anything at all I question if you have the creativity and desire to really create a successful technology business.

From the perspective of wanting to work for a technology company, and not an advertising company, I suppose it makes sense.

Stop thinking linearly. Both the amount of solar energy per dollar, and the total global amount of power generated by solar panels is increasing at an exponential rate.

Hydrogen fuel cells powered up by cheap solar panels will be our future power source. No need to transmit electricity across the globe.

WARNING: it's another one of those OnSwipe mobile sites that crash your browser.

I wish there was some way to opt out of OnSwipe and just load the desktop version of a website on my iPad.

But this really isn't the way to make any friends.

I'd be surprised if anyone wants to do business with people like this ever again.

I'd say no. Like with Facebook, what replaces Google won't look like a search engine, or a social media portal, it will be... ?

  Yep, it had a very real business opportunity.

Obviously the founders knew otherwise. They saw how difficult it would be to go for the long haul, and calculated it would be better just to take the Twitter job offers.

WARNING: this is an OnSwipe site that will crash mobile browsers.

Warning mobile users: OnSwipe site, cashed my iPad browser immediately.

There is something wrong with it if you're going to toot your horn, bragging, and want attention, praise, and free promotion... for what? for copying a couple CSS/JS files into a website?

The video needs a mirror. Have they not heard of vimeo?

Built by people uninterested in the craft. It's like JavaScript developers that actually only know jQuery.

For a second I figured it was going to be called SwingWithUs, a VC-backed site where wife-swapping becomes fashionable.

I came away with a different feeling. He never really said anything about going and buying anything. Lots of kids already play Angry Birds, they know this and want to reach out to kids. So they're making a little pro-science advertisement "hey if you like this kind of stuff you better study science so you can become an astronaut".

What he forgot to mention was the part where probably most Physics graduates do not find work in their field and a very small fraction go on to become astronauts.

Ideally you use a localization framework which manages date formated and your back end just deals with date objects.

  it lets you chain jQuery functions, 

That's also an anti-pattern. JQuery was designed to hide iteration from designers who can't code. I'm floored that people that actually know how to program still think it's a good idea.

$('DIV').click(..).color()...border()...

It might look fancy, but all it's doing is obscuring the fact that iteration might be occurring on each command which for obvious reasons would be a bad idea. A designer might not care, but a programmer who knows JavaScript will probably write something like this instead:

  var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('DIV');
  divs.forEach(function(div) {
     div.onClick = ..
     div.style....
  });

JQuery provides a nice polyfill for older browsers, but the way the API works just gets in the way for people who know JavaScript and DOM.

Yeah, whatever. Find me one person that doesn't want a super high resolution digital tablet.

This stuff was Science-Fiction just 5 years ago. If Apple didn't bring it to use we'd be using desktop GUI computers forever.

Given the number of years it'll take for CSS3 to be used reliably, this information isn't very useful.

These guys need to get over themselves. JQuery provided a really nice way for designers to copy/paste effects onto web elements. And then they took it way, way too far, to the point where whenever I see a "new JQuery plugin to do X" I just look the other way.

JQuery just gets in the way these days.

$("#element") is an anti-pattern. That code should just return the DOM node, not some silly object with unknown attributes. We're way past the point where you need to abstract the entire document object model, and I argue you should never have done that to begin with.

Docracy was posted to HN recently:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3666478

It's really limited or just starting out, no EULA's or anything that I can personally actually use.

Well for one, this SQLite.js is completely useless without persistence. All you need is some way to get the contents of the database and save it to a file.

That way if you have some new type of architecture that's not supported by SQLite, but you do have a JavaScript VM available you could really easily whip up an SQLite based app without going to the trouble of porting SQLite itself.

Could this be embedded inside NodeJS thus eliminating the need for a driver?

I'm anxiously waiting for that moment where cloud storage becomes cheaper than buying a hard drive. Only at that point will consider I going all-cloud.

I bet half the people on HN could run Flickr better by themselves.

How in the world do they have 14,000 employees? I just checked the Yahoo.com site right now, yup still looks the same as it did in 1998 except now it's nicely formatted for an 800px wide monitor. What are all these people doing all day long?

  Windows 8 or Office 15 that are geared for mobile and 
  touch friendly launching in like six months or so.

5 years behind the competition. Windows is so far behind iOS it's embarassing.

  I just searched for 'Visual Basic'... Salary Estimate

What you're not able to do a bing search for is how long-term these high-paying Visual Basic jobs are going to last. There's no future in Visual Basic because it's not for building apps in a mobile computing paradigm. It's an old-school desktop GUI paradigm, the paradigm that is quickly being replaced with mobile computing... where Microsoft is at an enormous disadvantage. Nobody is building mobile apps using Visual Basic.

  >The entire MS stack has been abandoned by the next generation of innovators.
  You mean by people like StackOverflow?

Out of every 100 Silicon Valley startups, I think you'll find about 1% or less are using any Microsoft technologies. You conveniently provided one of those 1%.

You haven't really given me much to dispute, but I digress. Neither Office or Windows 7 is geared toward mobile computing, which for all intensive purposes is the future of computing and which Microsoft is at an enormous disadvantage. Microsoft is currently dominant in every area of computing that is declining in every metric worth measuring. Nearly every way Microsoft makes money has become stagnant largely due to the dominance of Microsoft in these areas and the lack of innovation required to continue making money. Microsoft is in much graver danger than they let on. The entire MS stack has been abandoned by the next generation of innovators. Find me an 18 year old MS Visual Basic programmer and I'll show you a minimum wage earner for the rest of his career.

Microsoft is a dying company, and the sooner young people abandon this company and all its technologies the better off they are.

Microsoft's entire business is based around the idea that inferior products don't matter as long as you have the monopoly position, backed by business and sales channels that enable them to shove half-baked products and poor support down customers throats.

Microsoft is long past the point where they will continue to get away with shipping turds. I think they've lost the entire mobile computing market forever. It doesn't matter how much they polish Windows 8 because consumers and business alike are finally starting to see the light from the permanent hangover that Microsoft has cast upon the entire IT industry since the mid-1990's.

The biggest problem for Haxe is with appropriate JavaScript libraries that abstract the shrinking number of differences between browsers, plus the advent of NodeJS working on pretty much every possible operating system, JavaScript is becoming what Haxe wants to be.