uams's comments

Biotech is going to be eaten by software, that's not in question. It's clear that Kleiner lost their first bet on health startups, which means that I'm looking forward to seeing the next batch of startups give it a go.

This is a really interesting idea. iOS and submitting to the app store has always seemed high friction task. This takes reduces both of them by having a fully baked app that I can just modify.

The promise of shipping code to the app store is a bit more tenuous as we have to bank on the developers packaging it up and sending it up to the app store.

IIRC, this has always been on stripes job page. Always thought it was a clever idea.

The key to this one will be figuring out what features of git (and in particular github) will make it successful in other verticals.

I wonder if some key CS concepts are so fundamentally ingrained, but that writers think about their work flow differently.

iOS7 is already doing that. It's switching from skeuomorphic buttons to just typography.

This doesn't address your larger point, given that the switch to lines doesn't mean that they're bringing advanced functionality yet, but it's a sign that they are willing to trade away easy of learning.

https://www.filepicker.io ?

Haha. Super cool. Cloudy just fixing all of gmail attachment problems.

First saw Cloudy a bit ago; it let you attach a file using filepicker.io which means attachments straight from Facebook, Gmail, other cloud sources. Nice job.

"Security breaks when humans are involved"

Pretty much sums up life. It's gotten to the point that zero-day exploits scare me less then users writing passwords down on sticky notes, clicking on random links, or letting random people in the building.

whoa. you can read and write on their urls? pretty slick as it actually looks like a js file system.

It's super interesting; javascript is okay, but any shortcomings seem to be solved by other people.

Inconsistencies and ease of use- Jquery Filesystem- Filepicker Code organization - Backbone etc.

Hmm. So the argument that web will eventually over take native mobile apps has been made over and over. Sure an O(n lgn) algorithm is better, but if the constants are bad enough, I'm going with the O(n^2). Even the author admits that native apps were around for nearly 20 years. Accounting for the fact that things move faster now so it might be less, we're still only a couple years into a decade long era of installed mobile applications. Then, we still have to account for the bad network connections on the phone that make web apps harder to work with.

While I'm skeptical of the mobile argument, I'm super excited about html5 dev conf because I do think HTML5 is going to be big on desktop/laptops.

What protocol do you guys use to talk to Sharepoint?

Submitted to brew. Not sure if I did everything right (first time)

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/15229

Haha. I'll fix that when I get a chance; pull requests are encouraged :D

Something I threw together over the weekend. I've been using filepicker on a website of mine. Realized that I could hack it to upload and share files in a simple tool.

Inspired by cloudApp, when I found myself wanting a command line version.

what are the differences between hiring a sales person verus a VP of sales?

http://snapsite.me/ is pretty cool. It takes a Facebook Page and makes a professional looking webpage out of it.

e.g. https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist to http://www.snapsite.me/home.php?id=804

It helps less tech savvy businesses only know how to operate a facebook page have a decent web presence.

It would be great if all academic papers had a 140 word tl;dr version. Would save grad students a bunch of time. (Crack joke about how my phd is taking 2 years longer then expected)

I recognize the optimizely part. Good guys so I'm glad they've got LinkedIn using them to AB test.

I was able to duplicate it on the Profile Completion section as well. I didn't have as many '_*1's. Maybe my profile was more complete then yours? It seems like an odd way to keep track of progress regardless.

If you can do a lot with a little, imagine what you can do when given a lot.

This is super cool.

While I can't imagine myself using it anytime soon, it's clear that web applications are improving at a far faster rate then native applications and, with t large enough, the first derivative means that web will eclipse native.

This seems like an academic exercise at the moment; it's to prove that you can replicate a native experience only.

However, it seems that this could be vastly improved by playing to the strengths of the internet. The only online apps that have beat native ones so far have been because of cloud storage and collaboration. First, use filepicker.io or something so this can open my online files. Second, bake some collaboration into it.