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Argh. I wish I could fix it. Thanks for the heads up, though.

Pretty funny, but I've been working on this post about the same thing for the Wright Brothers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291316. Great minds think alike. Maybe if we could put some guns on a plane...

I had the same bundle! Loom one of the best games of all time.

I think the bundle also included Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis. Sucker punches all day.

Came here to paste a link to the good parts. I see you've already got that.

Honestly, the most useful reading for me has been the annotated source to Backbone and Underscore. Amazing that he wrote it, even more amazing that he annotated it. Guy's a genius.

http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html

Sounds like a potential Show HN project, but I'd love to arrange some carpools from SF...

www.luvocracy.com another alternative

Actually, surprisingly good for our our marketer/designer to quickly mock up small changes to our landing page. We wouldn't share it publicly, but for internal use kinda neat.

Great article. This "Eric" the author speaks of must be pretty cool.

+1

i kind of wanted to share my favorites, but probably best not to.

http://justin.harmonize.fm/index.php/2009/09/an-introduction... is another great article

It worked for me on Windows.

The only tough part is getting it to find your ssh-keys. I did this by running it inside git bash, which as a Windows user you might have anyway if you've installed msysgit. Of course cygwin would also probably work. ssh-keygen to make your keys, and then run your server and then show.

I couldn't figure out how to get the -i command to work properly so it found your ssh keys, maybe I should try that again and see if you can do everything with PuTTYgen for a 'true' windows solution.

Great intro to scaling, and great material for answering the inevitable "how do you scale?" question in interviews.

I wish there was more explanation about the 'platform layer'. Author also kind of skirts around map-reduce.

The article starts to hint at one thing I think is really interesting about Africa and other developing nations: by having leapfrogged some past infrastructure-heavy tech, they're in a unique place to get huge bang for your innovation dollar, both access-wise and out-of-the-box thinking wise.

The article cites a lot of examples from South Africa, which is actually a pretty developed country. CIA Factbook has it as the 26th largest GDP in the world, ahead of countries like Greece and Austria. Obviously that's only one metric, but I would guess that some VCs will give it a look eventually. The more interesting question is what will happen to less developed Africa countries - i.e. the ones, whether for better or for worse, you imagine when you read the headline.

Agreed. It's just another annoying contrarian headline. It's not what the article is saying at all.