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CalvinCopyrighton What do you think about the launchpage of my startup?

Lots of things don't work without JavaScript.

I think it looks great. No scrolling!

CalvinCopyrighton The Simple Truth (2008)

My head hurts.

CalvinCopyrighton Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

If you don't look at the pointers, this is the most difficult Where's Waldo ever.

CalvinCopyrighton Regexp-based RFC822 email address validation

Makes me think of the first reply to this StackOverflow question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...

CalvinCopyrighton Steve Huffman - Teaching thousands of students to program on Udacity

Heh. It took me a lot longer than Steve here to set up App Engine on my current computer, and setting up XAMPP on my last computer to run a local server took a fraction of the effort. I don't use an IDE, either; I use Notepad++ for ALL my coding, so that's another trouble I don't have in any case.

GAE may allow you to set up a server visible to the entire Internet, but I think my fonder memories will be reserved for other tools.

CalvinCopyrighton Mozilla Sweet.js: Extending JavaScript with Macros

Exactly why and how does this let me do stuff I couldn't do before with JS? The example used here looks like something that could be done just as easily with OOP at first glance...