carldall's comments

Thank god coffee wasn't on the list.

Regarding Native Client: I don't think that Google is evil just because they try to move web technologies forward in non w3c standardized ways, and I don't even want to go into this discussion because there're (imho) valid arguments for both sides, But: For web developers, this whole process is suboptimal to say the least. It only adds to the already existing complexity of the web technology stack but enforces more browser checks and fallbacks.

Even worse, as soon as you're working for a customer who isn't technical, you'll land in a situation where he shows you a Native Client app and wants "something like that" on his website but running in Firefox or Safari or (even worse) Internet Explorer.

Thanks! Too many update cycles these days ;)

I'm using 11.52. It says: "Uncaught exception: TypeError: 'Q.bind' is not a function Error thrown at line 1, column 516"

Aw, doesn't work in Opera. But a great idea. This reminds me of the time when I was young and worked in a small IT department in a local company. Most of the time it was boring, but installing games on the machines was forbidden. So I coded a set of Excel Macros to play Snake on an Excel cheat. Good times, we even had an internal high score list right in there; half the department joined :)

Yeah, but SC1 and SC2(Amber) are rather different.

Good news. I wonder though, what will happen to Sproutcore? My former company build a huge application based on 1.4 (at that time), and now they're kinda left in the rain. Does anybody know when or if all the Sproutcore 1.x changes that Apple made for iCloud/MobileMe make it back into SC 1.x?

Congratulations Evernote Team!

What's interesting is that many people forget that Evernote is also a powerful cloud plattform with a solid API. The ability to save all your notes in a standardized way in the Cloud and then install individual apps for filtering, processing, or managing them has huge potential.

I think we've only seen the beginning of where they'll go. In comparison to Dropbox mostly because Evernote as a whole is a bit more difficult to grasp.

The author invested quite some time to make his point, however, I disagree.

First of all, if this is the only possible way for a tablet to look, why did all the other Microsoft tablets up to the iPad look vastly different?

Second, there're two famuos quotes:

"The obvious is always least understood."

and

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei

The problem here is that Apple invested a lot of time and thinking into designing a fantastic solution to a problem. But that doesn't mean that it is the only solution. Instead, people are now seeing the world from this point of view, and can't fathom that there is any other solution to this problem - just like before the iPad everybody thought that the Windows Tablet Design was the best solution.

Does the author really believe that the iPad design is the answer to all questions? The final? I bet there're better, more intriguing, more beautiful, and more usable designs that yet have to be discovered.

I've been using Evernote since 2007 or 2008, whenever it appeared (granted, with a non usage delay in between), and it is a great idea well executed. What's interesting is that many people forget that Evernote is also a powerful cloud plattform with a solid API. The ability to save all your notes in a standardized way in the Cloud and then install individual apps for filtering, processing, or managing them has huge potential.

I think we've only seen the beginning of where they'll go. In comparison to Dropbox mostly because Evernote as a whole is a bit more difficult to grasp.

News like these are fantastic. I often wonder how much time and resources mankind looses because there're so many young people in third world countries who are very smart and can ask the right questions, but who will never be able to gain the necessary education to be able to commit their fantastic innovations to society. Imagine how much further ahead, as a whole, we could be if the education and standard of living of the first world would be the same all over the world.

The sad thing is that, as with most media, this will hardly reach anybody. I guess that the wrong quote will still be around in one years time. He who screams the loudest defines truth.

I've long wondered if there shouldn't be a better way of handling updating / correcting news items. Especially in newspapers, the wrong headline was largely visible on the front, while the corrected information comes one week later in a small box somewhere in the middle (if it comes).

Having grown up with Super Mario Bros and the Legend of Zelda, even just thinking about these games brings me back to the old times and gives me a warm shiver.

I still remember that christmas morning in 89 or 90 when I got my first Nintendo. It was snowing outside, which made it feel even more cozy inside. My friend and me had been playing Super Mario Bros almost all morning and had forgotten time in between. Suddenly it was lunchtime and my grandma came for visit. She correctly observed that I hadn't even touched her present yet (I forgot what it was). It was still at the same position where I put it after opening it. Super Mario Bros had me so hooked that I'd forgotten about the rest. After that, Miyamoto's creations always followed me around, be it on the GameBoy, the SNES, or the N64. Godspeed Miyamoto, you shaped my youth and I thank you for it.

It would surely be great if the PHP Docs would include such information right where the function is described.

Don't forget the lock in. If you've been using Instapaper for 2 years, you might have a huge archive and a couple of good friends that share interesting stuff. You'd loose all of that by switching to Read It Later.

One thing that I sorely miss in Instapaper though is the ability to mark text fragments and save them as quotes (like in iBooks for example), and add notes to it. I'm reading all these texts, and I can't mark quotes or note my thoughts. I hate it. Does Read It Later offer such a feature?

I've argued for a long time that Facebook has the huge advantage of having even reach most of the laggards. All other social networks that don't focus on an entirely different niche (like Instagram) will probably fail or stay small.

However, a social network doesn't necessarily need 800Mio users to be relevant. Even a small social network with an avid and interested user base can succeed.

And this could be the main differentiator here: A user base consisting out of people that love fantastic design. If they and their design-loving friends are on there, and don't require the facebook-laggard-surplus, then Path can succeed.