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IME there are two main challenges

1) Pre-launch: Finding the time while working to create your SaaS (prior to go launch).

2) Post-launch: Ensuring you have the time to support your customers, and resolve issues in a timely manner. (Paying) customers come with the extra responsibility of taking care of them.

The latter can be much harder to manage since you need to react quickly and not push it off until when you have time.

http://sixteencolors.net/ is another great archive for ANSi art.

The art scene in the mid 90s was an interesting, vibrant, microcosm, moving from BBS's to IRC over the course of a few years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILNs1GChGDk and the longer http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ are a good watches if youre interested.

Came here to say this -- thought, I wonder how much our view of the homeless in America is skewed by the "visible homeless" we see, day to day, living on the streets.

Anecdotally, an overwhelming number of the "visible homeless" in America have mental illness or at least behave in a unemployable manner.

I imagine there is another (larger?) slice of homeless that live in shelters/elsewhere and are less obvious and could function "normally" in society given the means.

Disclaimer: I work for Adobe.

Not only does it fit most of the criteria youve listed, Adobe technical leadership is becoming infused with alot of new blood since the acquisition of Day. Technologies like Apache Jackrabbit/Oak, Apache Sling, Apache Cordova/Phonegap are becoming integral pieces of Adobe's go to market on the DMS (Digital Marketing side - which is the lesser known enterprise offering side opposite the Creative Cloud/Creative Suite products).

It may be an big, "old" tech company, that gets a bit of grief for stale technologies like Flash, but IMO theyre moving in the right (and interesting) direction as quickly as their internal structures and market offerings allow.

As an ex-hackintosher im always thrilled to see people pull great stories like this off! I gave up on rolling my own due to the small irritations (system error when my logic mouse's USB dongle was removed) and the upgrade-paralysis; Every new rev of OS X would met w trepidation as a carved out a weekend "just in case". Either way, I hit a point where investing in an MBA was more economical... Now I can get by with a MBA; if we're talking about a MacPro then the value trade off might still be there :)

Don't forget VirtualBox; IMO it beats out the competing commercial products

Neat idea, but I dont like the concept. The animations instinctively make me think some action is occurring, which isn't.

I think those would be better served to indicate the processing of an action, like the pin wheel/hour glass of old.

A link to a portfolio site would go a long ways.

Quicksilver is probably more powerful, but Alfred (to me) seems much simpler and there's a lower barrier to entry.

Where with QS I had to "think" whenever I used it, Alfred's interface, in the parlance of apple, "just works".

As a long time Alfred user, the workflow feature looks really astounding. Custom google searches were a huge boon to my productivity when developing (i can search APIs in a flash now).

If im reading this correctly, with intelligent workflows I can populate my Alfred results list with carefully curated search results.

This looks like the push I need to pony up and support andrew like i shouldve been doing all along.

Its quite clever how Apple used and popularized the term "post-pc" after a multi-year TV PR campaign (Mac vs PC commercials) drawing a distinct line between PCs (windows machines) and Macs.

While I take post-pc to mean Post-Desktop (and possibly laptop), Apple has cleverly separated its Mac personal computer line from "PC"s, allowing it to sound the death knell for Windows PCs, but not for its "delightful" Mac computer line up.

In this day and age it seems like the phone's ecosystem is even a stronger driving force than the quality of the phone itself. While the Lumia 8xx and 9xx are very nice devices (and I even think Win Phone 7/8 is a very nice OS), I wouldn't purchase a Lumia solely on what I perceived to be a young and unproven ecosystem around the OS.

All I hear is Win Phone 7/8 (3rd party) apps are limited in variety and and quality. Its a very hard sell when iOS and Android have such an expansive catalog of (quality) apps.

Phones these days are about the software -- good HW is table stakes.

Im not a twitter user, so this may be just initial shock -- but while looking through the article's screenshots, i had flash backs of myspace.. not quite as bad, but a crowded over-personalized, over-whelming page.

Just going to the homepage and features page I still don't quite understand what the service is about. I would like to see the blue banner area on the homepage to include a concise description of what the service is.

The Features page is text heavy and the screenshots are too isolated. I felt overwhelmed and didnt try to ready it. For me, a better features page would be to have a full page screenshot with "hand-drawn" arrows with 1-2 line descriptions of the feature.

Right now my take away is this is like a Disquos<sp?> for FAQs - but I still dont quite understand why I would pay for that. (Im sure im missing something, just havent taken the time to poke around/read through the site)

Adobe is following this "open core" approach on several of its newer offerings. For Instance adobe

This iOS6 Maps controversy smacks of Antenna-gate. Picking on one shortcoming and heralding the downfall of Apple/iPhone.

Yeah, it sucks that iOS6 maps aren't as good as iOS5 maps.

Does taking a step backward on (important) iOS app mean Apple has peaked? Probably not.

Will the general consumer be happy enough with the iPhone5/iOS6 as a whole that they will tolerate (and then forget about) Maps's reduction in quality? Probably.

Will Apple improve Maps so that in 6-12 months where the iOS6 maps quality is on par with iOS5 maps? Probably.

Time will tell - but my money is this is a classic case of the media/blogs trolling for page views, the general consumer not noticing (ala antenna-gate), and all this will be forgotten in a month.

...and Job's reign had missteps as well - from imac disc mouse to iphone cellular performance on at&t to mobileme to iphone4 antenna. Apple's great power is they make the entire package so enchanting that consumers tolerate issues until they can be resolved.

Agreed, the other yahoo pages are even less of a redesign. This is an embarrassing "article" even for TC.

At a very high level, I like this idea. It would be great if there was browser support to super-persist the auth tokens (cookies) through cookie-clearing and also sync between browsers on machines -- most likely via a browser plugin.

Im trying it out - but share voiced concerns about making the distraction that is HN that much more accessible -- but that's my problem, not yours :)

and the iOS interface does feel a little peculiar..

Either way, great job building a fun app and sharing it with HN!

Thanks for this great site - I hope it gets some traction and grows.

There are so many great sites/services out there that because I've forgotten about them. Having a simple index of sites like this will keep my memory about useful sites and help me discover new ones.

I really hope you are able to grow this site - i've added it to my Chrome bookmark bar!

Fun project, but am I the only one that finds the zig-zag flow of the "Fb-timeline" difficult to follow -- or atleast more difficult than a linear feed?

What are the advantages of this style of timeline - other than less scrolling?

I really like this idea, but dont have a facebook.

Its frustrating that I can't get into see all the gift options without logging in. You should make that "... and may more" reveal the full list of GC options.

I do appreciate the short walk-through near the bottom though.

The performance seemed lacking, but more importantly, while watching the demo the concept of an "activity" confused me -- I assume its similar to the notion of an app, but it was hard to tell as the "activity" was represented as a desktop -- overall fairly confusing.

It doesnt look ready for prime time but its exciting to see the FOSS community working on it; who knows, in a few years it might be able to garner the same eminence as xbmc has in the htpc space.

Could this have something to do w RIM management not wanting to canabalize it's already dwindling BB phone market? I've never used one but the ppl I know still clinging their BBs cite it's email capabilities as why they're sticking around.

Tablets and phones don't seem to directly compete, but then again they're both mobile devices.

Very nice job -- i particularly like the "organic" patterns (like black linen)

The idea isnt inspired imho. That being said, allowing the user to vote using the arrow keys is. The fact that I could vote with barely any hand movement got me through ~10 votes which is 8 more that I wouldve had I been required to click on each image.

Also, the design was simple, clean and effective. Good job.

Precisely, and it's why I've moved over to duckduckgo and heavily use its !bang syntax...

I'm sure there's much more to it, but my initial reaction was to think it was oracle snubbing salesforce in their acquisition of heroku. In the enterprise (which sf targets) oracle is revered, and a robust oracle IDE does help give credibility to ruby/rails. Aptana and ruby mine are the only other ruby/rails IDE's that your run of the mill IT manager would consider full-featured im aware of, and neither of them are backed by a brand as respected in the enterprise as oracle.

What apps have you found for the iPhone that work will to control XBMC? I've tried a a few for iPad and iPhone and they've been pretty terrible -- I've been using my Logitech Harmony One and AirMouse (iPhone/iPad) but would like a slick iphone/ipad app that would let me use the library features, etc.

I've been running XBMC on a 1st gen Xbox as well (those were the days), then moved to a fullsize HTPC, and now down to a Dell Zino.

If you've got a HTPC setup, you should absolutely give XBMC a try.

Very cool - I have yet to try it out, but if its as easy as the video suggests, this could be a boon for ruby/rails. I've made several attempts at introducing .NET developer friends to Ruby/Rails, but they've given up, due to frustration preparing the environment on their Windows boxes -- Hopefully this will help change that experience.