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Programming languages for non-programmers needs to be embedded in a vessel.

Excel is probably the quintessential vessel. When people are trying to solve a need they have, they will invest the effort to figure out the tools, including learning enough programming to solve their problems.

In real estate, the public are the buyers.

In job hunting, the employers are the buyers.

Schemas: Schemaless does not mean no schema; instead, it means an implicit schema in the app (a particularly challenging misnomer for anyone outside our industry)

Still a challenge for many in the industry.

That’s what everyone says but how many 100x’s are there really? I’ve been doing this a long time and there just aren’t that many.

I don’t have the same pressures of a fund in liquidity, timing or the need for 100x returns. If I can consistently get 5x to 10x I’d take that all day long.

How many investors, angels, VCs or otherwise, focus on the 5x-10x return deals?

And are 5x-10x deals safer, meaning that more of a sure thing, than the 100x deals in terms of return? I.e. are VCs being rational by focusing on the 100x deals since 5x-10x deals aren't safer, or are they forgoing safer and better returns of the 5x-10x for the chance to become movers and shakers of the largest players?

We’ve had a few successes. One of our companies was acquired by an Accel backed company.

The other is Saya, the first African company to pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt. Weeks before the event the founders didn’t even have passports!

It is very cool that there are already success stories.

Without ever being in Africa, I lack the knowledge and wonder if the current infrastructure is capable of supporting knowledge-based economy on a broad scale, but it's certainly good to see that high tech businesses could thrive there, and incubators are getting created.

Obviously a manufacturer is not directly at fault when someone misuses their product, and they also are only selling what the consumer wants, but what level of responsibility do manufacturers have to help the consumer make good choices?

As much as I agree with the sentiment of responsible companies (with my upvote), IMHO the reality is that consumers are the ones calling the shots.

Demand is like a vacuum suction. When there is a demand there will be supply, even if some don't choose to provide on moral grounds, others will fill in. No demand, no supply.

The only responsibility that companies have is to make money, and that is done via making products consumers want. If consumers want to buy only from the responsible companies, all viable companies will be responsible.

They aren't all responsible because we don't all vote with our wallets that way.

Look at the demand for health food these days even causes McDonald's to offer salads. Change demand, and you change supply.

We have an obesity epidemic. More people in this country are overweight than not overweight. It's becoming a national health crisis, and costing us a lot of money.

Each individual is responsible for his/her own health. We can't legislate unhealthy lifestyles away. We can only educate and motivate people to learn more and take control of their own health, starting from not visiting the highly popular junk food isles.

You don't need to execute JS in order to phish, as the original link alludes to with the html comment trick.

This particular comment thread was mostly about webmail clients. But to your specific question... take a look at the link for an incomplete list of email clients that runs JS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients#Tem...

The onus is still on Google - the rule of the web is that any clients that one allows connections from are fair games that one has to address.