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Don't forget about Caché Intersystems, who provide a "modern object-oriented" MUMPS implementation. Complete with SQL emulation and a web template language that's almost a direct lift of ColdFusion(down to needing Dreamweaver to edit files stored inside the DB).
Replace 'client that users install' with 'prebuilt targets for all major mobile+desktop platforms', and you've got Zipline's Moai: http://getmoai.com/
Don't forget Ripl, either: https://github.com/cldwalker/ripl
It's not even a reactor as I understand it--it's basically just a sealed neutron source and couldn't go critical.
It's not terribly surprising that they'd have something like that though. Kodak's Rochester plant was basically the chemical version of Hanford Site--lots of government work, little public oversight. My grandfather and several uncles worked there, and all received comprehensive life insurance as a standard benefit.
As jodrellblank says, it's been possible to do this for a long time:
Inferno IE4 plugin: http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/plugin/index.html
Lively Kernel: http://www.lively-kernel.org/
Confirmed: Nexus S, 4.0.4, and it looks fine: http://imgur.com/N2cLn
Unless you're on a platform where you can't get gcc >4.0, so RVM is helpless, and you're stuck with just bundler. Then the rake/cron nightmares come..
SourceTree is a desktop client for DVCSs in general, not a webapp, so I'm not sure of the comparison. It's a pretty sweet piece of kit regardless.
It's also a side-project of Steve Streeting, the founder of OGRE3D: http://www.ogre3d.org/about/team
If you could get people to write a bunch of temporal expressions(http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/timeNarrative.html) for the most standard parking signs, you could then start working something out. Right now you can figure out that sign's schedule with Runt, but it's a bit ugly: https://gist.github.com/1199082
The other post linked from this entry notes that this is based on Dan Kaminsky's DNSSEC presentation. Dan has a pretty interesting line of articles describing doing this kind of stuff in DNSSEC starting here: http://dankaminsky.com/2010/12/13/dnssec-ch1/
I definitely agree that entrepreneurs are going to take the plunge or not. I'm focused on the support network / employee angle, and harkening back to daveschappell's point that the circles don't really connect. There are communities, yes, but no sense of overall community that you can get a starting point in. It seemed like tribes all the way down: ex-[Amazon | MS | Google], UW clubs, etc. And if you didn't know where to begin, there wasn't an easy way to find someone to ask.
Case in point: if I'd known there were more startups looking for talent, I probably wouldn't have moved out to the eastern part of the state in 2007. At the time, my options after burnout+dismissal seemed to be 'work for another large company'(which I'm still wary of), 'pursue your own idea on your lonesome'(which I didn't have any of at the time) or 'don't work at all'.
(My best classes at WSU were with Hagemeister, Wang(CS460 FTW), and Biker Bob. Contributing to my slight-insecurity as a dev, I was also part of the Benson class that petitioned to have him removed: for tossing us a description of car/cdr and expecting us to build a complete Lisp in SML)
But do you invite other people, or have some way of introducing others to it? That's kind of what I'm getting at: regardless of the activity, there's a social disconnect for getting people involved if they're not already in a circle of friends--and the few circles I was in didn't intersect at all.
It's not necessarily an insurmountable gap but it's enough to intimidate most people who aren't already outgoing, or who are accustomed to a friendlier town.
I grew up in Redmond, went to college at WSU, and moved into Seattle in 2002. For the longest time after that, when walking into a bar or show, I had to keep persuading myself that people were not going to point and scream at me like Donald Sutherland in the 70's Body Snatchers movie.
Possibly the Seattle Freeze? http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2005/0213/cover.h...
In the 5 years after college that I lived in the city proper, the only tech group I managed to hang around was Seattle.RB, and only a few meeting at that.
Did you work at the same place I do now(small-town paper in the Pacific NW)? Being the sole developer there, I can absolutely confirm this. And since I was hired to write the website CMS, most of my days resemble the assembly line segment from Chaplin's Modern Times.