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Their claims sound too good to be true, if you ask me. I am especially skeptical since they advertise that they will export your data to GitHub [0] and give their own website's repo as example [1].

[0] It's on the bottom of their homepage somewhere.

[1] https://github.com/the-domains/the-grid

You want someone to handle business, support, etc. People who can do that are a dime a dozen.

Is this really true? I mean that as an honest question, because, while being a coder with a typical distaste for shallow marketing folks myself, I think these "business things" actually constitute work, if done right (first and foremost good user support).

I would imagine that there exists a similar comment in a board for marketing guys and gals, where they say:

You want someone to program the database. People who can do that are a dime a dozen.

Pun intended.

You did a great job of taking the "feeling overwhelmed by possible choices" out and putting a lot of "Steve Jobs" in. Good work!

What does this have to do with Pied Piper (or the "Silicon Valley" show)? Am I missing something in the article?

The main difference being that the Homepage scaled much better, made it's creator a million dollars and had no physical counterpart product that had to be manufactured from a handcrafted original.

But otherwise, it's really "smaller" and "cheaper", I guess.

Could you elaborate on this? Do you mean CLI/UI?

The main problem here seems to be: Why must every company on earth have its own Wikipedia page?

That said, I can see why e.g. Microsoft, the East India Trading Company and BMW should be recognized in an encyclopedia. And there are examples of products (lines) that could/should be mentioned in a vast online encyclopedia as well (e.g. Windows, BMW 3 series) because they influenced industries/trends/zeitgeist and/or lifes.

But why, for the love of god, should every consultancy, contractor, forrester and his second cousin have an entry on this site?

EDIT: typo

That would be a game changer on how I'd develop.

Why? I'm honestly curious since I can't imagine any big advantages over more "classic" setups ...

This seems like an urban legend to me, but your username made my day ;-)

"If we are not able to be alone, we will only know ... how to be lonely."

This counter-intuitive conclusion might be the most important statement in this video. It is not so much about technology being bad or social networks eroding our real connections to other human beings, but much more about losing the ability to be silent, thoughtful and ... well just be alone sometimes.

edit: typo

So I get the vibe that this will never be open sourced but is a side-project of yours that (should it come to fruition) will be run as for-profit.

Am I right?

Never underestimate the importance of responsiveness in user interfaces, especially when those interfaces are used look something up.

pretty sure the article has the timing wrong

I think they mean "been around for 4 years before taking funding last July" which would equate to 5 years.

For highly subjective definitions of "better", that is.

He says Kiln has some advantages over github in the corporate space, while github has features for socialized open source coding:

    So, specifically, Kiln gives you corporate things like:

    * code reviews
    * access control and permissions
    * fast code search
    * a news feed to follow code you care about
    
    GitHub gives you things that match the sociology of open source projects:
    
    * public home pages
    * a social network, with profiles
    * fork and pull workflow

I'm pretty sure that is not what this is about (showing that one can 'paint' coded animations) but to showcase how powerful algorithms are.

Am I wrong?

IMHO, this is simply not true.

Practice makes perfect. Writing short, concise pieces of text that express your thoughts in an easily digestable is really hard, a challenge of its own (despite what you want to say) - it's like a form of "professional" art, that few master.

Judging from the grammatical errors and the core dev's last names, they sound eastern european (ukraine).

That's certainly true for the office. But, as the author points out later in the article, many PCs were bought to serve as cash registers and info terminals, and those are replaced by tablets more and more.

So IMHO it's not that far fetched to say that individuals and businesses are buying less PCs than they were when Win XP came along. Doesn't say they aren't buying them anymore, just less.

While many of the OP's claims seem genuinely true, it saddens me to see how mad he becomes halfway through, after rightfully assessing facts, like the obvious flaws behind some the Apple patents.

But what started as a well presented and valid argument essentially became an unresortfull, self righteous Apple-Bashing that culmulates in "But as proud as you [Tim Cook] are, as disgusted I am. [...] Today, values have won and I hope the whole world listens. Your values have won, mine have lost, [...]"

This strikes me as odd: "After a complaint from one of our users [...], we realized that the very same thing could happen to someone else"

One user complains about something that might have happened by his own doing and the OP starts implementing a feature, that not circumvents the end result (can't save the content) but notifies the user that the software is broken somehow.

Anyway, I'm genuinely interested in the following:

What are these "universe glitches", when one gets logged out by the browser? Session Cookie vanishes? Server restart invalidates some kind of access token?

Same thing here. From the screenshots and description I assume this is a fine product, into which went a decent chunk of work.

But the product video is really not telling anything about the software at all - it is merely projecting a cool and hip lifestyle.

Give me an impression on what it feels like to use your software, not how cool I can look...

EDIT: Reminds me of the Yahoo! Axis Ad where the dude is punching and destroying websites. Complete separation between the content of the ad and the product.