ovidiu's comments

Maybe you could try a full reload? There are a few assets that have to be loaded before the page shows up...

We are a team of four. We started working on this project at the end of 2008 and we ran out of gas in 2010 in a slow and painful way.

Two days ago we decided to put it online even if it's not finished. I hope some of you enjoy it.

I'll be honest with you.

It smells like vaporware to me. The mock-up design looks pretty bad.

I would call it a weekend project idea, not a startup. If you want me to seriously take this into consideration, you should make a working prototype with SDK, tutorial and sample app available in the App Store.

The compiler messages are reasonable. It's inconvenient that errors are reported per function and not per line, but if you write short functions, and you should, the messages are just fine.

You're clearly exaggerating when stating that Erlang has "extremely poor" tools without giving any serious arguments.

I remember the time I wanted to learn "C++" and bought a Visual C++ book. There were so many references to MFC and sdk-specific things that it made the learning process truly frustrating.

This is why I always pick learn-by-example guides when studying a new programming language and this is why I try to understand the core first.

Erlang is also a great programming language to start programming with because it's so simple and based on existing mathematical knowledge that many beginners already have (functions).

It's because when I'm searching for something I want a link to the original source. I don't want a link to your page, really. The results page would become polluted if it contained links to all agregators such as yours.

It's unfair to be in the results page with somebody else's content when the people searching for that content are actually targeting the original source, not yours.

I've just outsourced a project to a friend of mine. He's a very skilled Django developer. The rate is around 30 euros / hour. However, I live in Romania.

It really is an ignorant assumption.

I am skilled and work for less as an employee (before tax) in Romania.

I have built the backend (game logic and comet) for http://www.iluminatus.ro, a trivia-like multiplayer game for the Romanian market. We're going to release an english version soon.

It was a great fit. It lacks Unicode processing capabilities by default, but there are a few open source libraries for that. The only thing I dislike about Erlang is the poor string manipulation and lack of clean structures (Erlang's records are an ugly hack IMO).

Sure, this is how democracy always worked. I don't know about you but I hate it when a politician forces me to live, eat and work the way he wants, not the way I want.

I don't believe your example is a good one, because the housing bubble was not caused by the market. It was caused by irrational expansion of credit. Of course the market is the expression of what people want, but those "wants" are heavily distorted or encouraged by monetary policy. There is no market in the money making business (it's a government controlled monopoly).

This is a good reason not to use assembla ever again. The same thing happened to me.

You forgot file sharing. It's the easiest way that I know that's guaranteed to work for both Internet and Intranet. The rest are really useless, I agree, but the file sharing service just works.

Yeah, and it's pretty nice, because it always works without pain :)

It doesn't have to be a large number of developers. They just need a killer application. The File Sharing service seems to work just fine. And it's ok for both Intranet (unlike existing sharing application on the web) and Internet usage.

Silverlight is proprietary. And it's just the same type of evil, but maybe at a lower degree (it's still based on proprietary codecs and the main implementation is not free/open source).

Developers choose flash because it's much more popular and has mature tools and a significant pool of experienced professionals who can work with it. It's not only about the technical features of Silverlight compared to Flash (Silverlight doesn't really stand out), it's also about the ecosystem.