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Do I interpret it incorrectly or do you guys deliberately use VM terminology to describe your product? When you connect to a virtual machine from a browser you are not launching a VM, neither are you running any windows machines on StackVM, you are connecting to windows VMs through StackVM. Other than that, cool demo, thanks.

No, not deliberately. We're just so used to these terms that even if we use them incorrectly we know what we mean. It's like the speech engineers develop, they know what the other engineers know even if he doesn't say it correctly or fully.

But I'll take your critique into consideration and I'll try to use the right terminology in the next videos not to confuse viewers.

Thanks for showing us how it looks. I hoped it would be more similar to the strange loops Hofstadter showed with a TV (ex. http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Droste-wikipedia.jpg), but it's still interesting.

Given what I learnt in GEB, with the strange loops that could develop given this infinite recursion, StackVM will likely become conscious in the near future.

StackVM? More like Skynet.

Awesome, it's like geek pr0n. So neat.

Can you load the page from a mobile or an iPad? And it's all with node.js? Frakin superb. Good luck.

I am sure you can, there is nothing that would prevent it. We don't use flash to display the content so it should work from iPad.

I don't have a mobile or iPad so I can't test it but it should work. We'll test it on these devices later.

Thanks for making my wish come true!

you're welcome. :)

Should have waited a day or two and then posted it so you spread out your HN coverage.

edit: Not to say that it isn't cool. It's very neat!

We'll have many more update videos, so I am not that worried about it.

The next video with the new UI and features will be pretty mind blowing.

I'll also start writing lots of blog posts about how stackvm works, that should also increase coverage.

Minor but terribly important point: get a better microphone. And increase the volume. These videos are the only public interface to your project right now.

Otherwise: I've been a huge fan of your writing since I discovered your blog and I was genuinely excited to see you were starting a large-scale project (as a business or otherwise). I would invest in you in a second if there were some mechanism by which I modestly could. Good luck.

Thanks for the tips. Gonna get myself a better one.

Btw, you're only the 2nd person who tells me the videos are quiet, but as I listen to them, the sound levels are ok.

+1 quiet. You might have really good speakers. Always safer to make the videos louder, the user can always tune it down but can't tune it up beyond his/her speaker's capability.

Relative to whatever's evolved to be the youtube standard level? I generally keep my speakers tuned to that, suspect many do. If the relative volume of two videos is not consistent between viewers, maybe it's a matter of equalizer filtering?

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at least link to a funny one.

http://i.imgur.com/QMSbf.jpg

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