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That is incredibly clever.

I actually work with Watson, the creator :) So I cheated a little.

Try tapping ABACABB (the Mortal Combat blood code) on the homepage for some fun. Nice easter egg :)

The Monty Hall problem? Like other suggestions, too many people might be able to recreate it from memory.

Got it. You guys should read up on iCloud :)

I guess I don't understand why they even need to store anything on their servers?

Kind of confused by this heroku error message I received? Are you storing my gmail credentials on heroku? When I tried again I have a google /looking/ login screen?

http://cl.ly/1p0M0o2t0H1E3Z1h3i0n

This looks a lot like look.io (http://www.look.io - redirects to LivePerson who recently acquired them), which is already live in and working in a few apps (Hotel Tonight and others iirc).

I'm really surprised by the number of commenters who didn't figure this out already?

I think you nailed it with "unless those exact same actions are actually (YAGNI) used as endpoints of a web service". I find client side javascript apps compelling because they are simply another consumer of your web service along with any other mobile/third-party/customer apps.

Anyone willing to share some first hand accounts of this?

Perhaps there should be a "Haven't had an exit or IPO" so we can get a sense for how rare these events are?

No, no it doesn't take a lot of steps. Perhaps I'll do a screencast to prove it.

They are pretty open about the fact most fares are around 2x that of a normal taxi.

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Explosion? From this article it looks it's a single piece of malware that people are having trouble with. Hardly an explosion.

I will be there!

JSONKit (https://github.com/johnezang/JSONKit) is by far the best JSON parsing library I've seen.

First impressions after using it for an hour or so:

- code completion destroys XCode, it's much more accurate.

- tabs make everything better.

- code generation is OK, more accessible and better than XCode.

- seems stable, no crashes thus far.

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SF has similar laws. The one I see cab drivers break most often is refusing to accept payment via credit card. If you ever get in a cab in San Francisco and they tell you they don't take credit cards they're either lying or shouldn't be driving the cab in the first place.

Errr, going from 55k users to a million users inside of 15 days is still an impressive feat...

I'm having trouble getting any work done knowing it's waiting for me in my backpack.

What constitutes an established account? I rarely comment on posts but have had an account for 2.5+ years and regularly upvote posts and comments. Is my account "established"?

I've been thinking about building something like this for years, I have just never had the bandwidth to get around to it. Thank you for doing it for me!

I don't know anyone in their right mind who would start building a new system around WebSphere in the first place, free or not. Is it even running on Java 1.5 yet?

App Bodega (http://www.appbodega.com) is a somewhat successful Mac app store that I find useful for finding new apps and keeping track of app updates. It's also really well done in terms of UI / usability. It's a shame they failed to even mention it - they're not helping the situation.

Oh, and from what I understand Apple is working on a Mac app store. As someone getting ready to launch a Mac shareware app I found this quote especially hilarious:

"Mac software sales since the current distribution and sales methods are in place and well established."

I like the idea of connecting designers and developers, although I fear that "designers" may end up being business folks who simply bring an idea to the table and nothing else.

The Exile series was a staple of my youth. Great stuff.

Man, it sure was nice when TC was about reviewing startups.