"When asked if he had been provided a reason for the firing, the one word response was 'Gawker.' -- wow... taking absolutely no responsibility for perhaps the fact that his behavior had something to do with it.
some context: this was written by a guy who moved from california to washington state -- a state with no personal income tax -- just before his company was acquired for tens of millions of dollars. i'm not implying anything, just giving some context.
I have a single OmniOutliner file with all of my ideas and random thoughts. It is much better to have tools that support ad-hoc organization than tools that limit you to a flat space. It's so easy to create outlines in OmniOutliner, that it would be silly not to. Definitely recommend it. Before that, it was emailing ideas to myself with a tag in the subject line.
Why would anyone click on a link to view a hacked website? If a website has been hacked, then it could also be transmitted malware to viewers' computers, couldn't it?
I'm fairly certain this won't make the front page, but... I have a friend who bootstrapped his company using the SBIR program. Doing so requires some extra work/bookkeeping, etc., but it's worth it for risky projects and, based on his experiences, I'd highly recommend it. His project was risky and required a major amount of research and there is no way he would have received traditional funding because it seems almost like an impossible project at first glance. It took him almost a decade of work to bring it to market and he's very close now. When I say "bootstrapping," I'm not talking living-off of ramen. I'm talking about being able to pay you and your researchers salaries, purchase required equipment, etc. -- you have to justify every dollar spent, but you don't have to live in poverty. In the end, you own all the equity, you own the IP and the final product, and I believe there's even a program where, under certain circumstances, the SBIR program will match outside investments if you are able to commercialize your work, but I don't know the details. It's not automatic, but it's not impossible either.
And, btw, he's an engineer and was able to manage the SBIR requirements without the help of a professional paper-pusher, etc.
Does anyone know if the Mac app might be open-sourced in the same way the iOS app was open-sourced? I'm working on an OS X app that could benefit from both tight integration with their server-based service and I think I could learn a lot from their Mac app source code, as this will be my first Mac app.
four digits are worthless. somebody was able to get the last four digits of my social security number (how many times have we given that info to customer service reps thinking it's "safe?") and used the digits to open a credit account on BillMeLater (yes, they did not require the full social security number to open an account). they then started buying stuff (nike shoes -- why doesn't that surprise me?).
the only reason i discovered this is because they didn't have my real email address and BillMeLater called me to tell me they needed me to update my email address. so, we also know that they don't even require email address authentication. now all of my credit reports are locked. i recommend everyone do the same.
sorry to hijack the discussion, but wanted to provide another "4 digits suck" example.
Of the companies I've read about so far, I believe this is the one to watch. I'm expecting this to be a big deal (I don't know the founders or anyone else even remotely involved). If they can get the right deals (be where authors sell the books and readers read the books), then writers will quickly become addicted to this service.
Parse must have an infinite number of engineers inside an infinity-sized office. They pump out new features and great tutorials like this at a much faster rate than anyone else in the PaaS space (except for AWS perhaps :-). Thanks for this! Cheers.
Sometimes being early is the same as being wrong -- we've seen that time and time again. If a new player were to come along and capture the momentum of this meme, I personally believe that they'd stand a better chance than a player who has been in the space a long time. It's unfortunate, but that's just the way it is -- or always has been.
There are a lot of cases where iCloud isn't relevant (at the moment) -- many types of apps are not document-centric and I believe that, going forward, fewer will be.
What is their mobile native app story (if one has been announced)? -- I'm not sure how I'd integrate the meteor backend with a native client (can't use a phonegap-like sdk in my case).
Salesforce bought Heroku for a boatload of dollars. It's not difficult to imagine that someone might acquire a next-generation application development platform. Just one possible exit.
I could be off-base, would guess that part of the issue is that his choice of names is also a keyword for every one of his competitors: "Timer." It's like trying to Google yourself if your name is "John Smith" -- good luck with that. On the other hand, "Apple Paltrow" will have no problem finding herself in the future. I could be wrong, but if I were him, I'd rename it to something like "SuperMegaTurboTimerDelux++"