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The bandwidth reduction is due to use of a binary protocol, not Go. It just so happens the server code is written in Go and C.

From the article:

“Go is very light,” he said, “and it has fundamental support for concurrent programming. And it’s surprisingly stable for a young language. The experience has been extremely good—there have been no problems with deadlocks or pointer exceptions.” But the code hit a bit of a performance bottleneck under CloudFlare’s heavy loads, particularly because of its cryptographic modules—all of Railgun’s traffic is encrypted from end to end. “We swapped some things out into C just from a performance perspective," Graham-Cumming said.

“We want Go to be as fast as C for these things,” he explained, and in the long term he believes Go’s cryptographic modules will mature and get better. But in the meantime, “we swapped out Go’s native crypto for OpenSSL,” he said, using assembly language versions of the C libraries.

Agreed, although you could argue that Apple provides something of tangible difference i.e. iOS and OSX, whereas Warby still sells the same Chinese glasses but with a better customer experience.

You could keep using your old frame and just get new lenses put in if your prescription has changed. 39DollarGlasses offer this service.

Nothing at all, just highlighting the fact that despite all the beautiful marketing, Warby Parker is really no different from other online glasses retailers.

"A new concept in eyewear... Warby Parker was founded with a rebellious spirit and a lofty objective: to create boutique-quality, classically crafted eyewear at a revolutionary price point." http://www.warbyparker.com/our-story/

Given that Warby Parker are most likely using the same supply chain as their competitors, what exactly is their competitive advantage, to justify total funding of $50.3 million? It can't just be a prettier website, can it?

App.net is not open source. Developers are building on top of a proprietary system and could get burned again.

Slick website and nice service providing first world convenience, but still Made in China.

SZDaily: "It is said that at least 60 percent of the spectacles on the earth are made in Shenzhen... At present, there are nearly 500 spectacles manufacturing companies in the city, mostly in Henggang Subdistrict, Longgang District, producing nearly 200 million pairs of spectacles a year. Ninety-five percent of their products are exported to more than 130 countries and regions, accounting for more than 70 percent of market share in Europe and about 60 percent on the global market."

http://www.szdaily.com/content/2012-07/20/content_6962497.ht...

WarbyParker: "We design our frames here in the US, then source our material (high-quality cellulose acetate) from a 150-year-old, family-owned Italian manufacturer. Our frames are then crafted in China"

http://blog.warbyparker.com/post/12789294212/i-have-a-questi...

As for the Italian manufacturer, it's likely they are referring to Mazzucchelli founded in 1849 and famous for the tortoise shell look. Well, it appears they may have outsourced acetate production to China too!

http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/47085-Acetate...

http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/CN/mazzucchelli-acetate...

It appears the author has a penchant for bashing China at every opportunity. Check out this comment[1] and then browse the author's archive[2] to make up your own mind.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2013/02/24/is-foxcon...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/archive/

I've never managed to get the advertised battery life out of an MBA, even when straight out of the box. What kind of battery life are you getting? What is your battery cycle count?

If your Mac is sluggish, you frequently see the dreaded beachball and get warning dialogs about low disk space:

"The core issue seems to be that the virtual memory manager is bad at managing which pages should be freed from the inactive state and which ones should be paged out to disk (and, consequently, back from disk)."

http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-de...

It's not quite the same as having native hosting of Subversion and Mercurial repositories. With a bridge and plug-in there might be some edge cases where things don't work as expected. I wouldn't risk my source code in this way.

Isn't competition great? Contrary to popular opinion, Github isn't the only game in town.

Assembla: Git, Mercurial, Perforce, Subversion

SourceForge: Git, Mercurial, Subversion

Google Code: Git, Mercurial, Subversion

Bitbucket: Git, Mercurial

Github: Git

Looking at the Founder's background and the roster of corporate clients, PrivCo look fairly legit.

http://www.privco.com/our-team/founder-and-ceo

Probably not. First, if you search InTrade you won't find anything related to LivingSocial. Second, it's not legal for anybody in the US to bet via InTrade[1], and Privco is a US company with it's founder Sam Hamadeh based in New York[2].

[1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/after-regulatory-sanc...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hamadeh

The CNN article has been updated again:

"That same source insists LivingSocial was not days or weeks away from a bankruptcy filing, adding that it had around $28 million in cash at its February low point and was on plan to steadily increase that number even without the new financing. Had that figure not increased, and had no new investment been forthcoming, it still could have survived for several more months."

Regardless of Privco, not exactly encouraging for employees and prospective merchants. I also wonder how much of the $110 million will actually be used for growing the business versus covering current liabilities, such as those due to existing merchants.

That's a shame. I'm sure quite a few people were interested in putting Linux onto the machine.

Not just what, but where are the power users? Both models of the Chromebook Pixel are still available with immediate shipping from the Play Store. Contrast to the Nexus 4 sales launch.

Where are the real specs? Google have gone and copied what Apple do, and just dumped marketing blurb everywhere.

"Intel® Core™ i5 Processor (Dual Core 1.8GHz)" - What's the model number? There are numerous Core i5 processors and their performance varies, which one am I getting? http://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html

32 GB SSD - What kind of read/write speed? Standard SATA or mSATA interface?

4 GB DDR3 RAM - Is the RAM soldered or user upgradeable? How many ram slots? What's the maximum capacity?

Perhaps I'm in the minority, but at that price, I do actually want to know if I'm buying an appliance or a computer.

Yeah, they just admitted that they're still not profitable, but apparently this extra $110 million will somehow do what the previous $818 million did not do.

That boat has long sailed. Anybody who wanted to short Groupon would have done it more than a year ago, when the stock was trading around $20-$25.

That is the $818 (now $918) million question. Even a hotdog stand is doing better than LivingSocial. Why would investors throw good money after bad?

"We are a company that does over half a billion in revenue. If we stay diligent, we hope to turn the corner to become profitable soon."

Good to hear stories like this. Just because something is cheap doesn't mean it's rubbish. A $99 Android tablet has a better operating system and in some cases better hardware than the first and second generation iPads.

The investors have thrown the company a lifeline to avoid filing for bankruptcy, but in exchange have taken full control and wiped out the founders and employee stock. This is the last roll of the dice.

Wow, LivingSocial has now been funded to the tune of $918 million, and really, what is there to show for it?

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/livingsocial

I wonder how Glass will handle other people randomly shouting out instructions.

That's quite plausible. I think the posts are worth reading to remind oneself that healthy skepticism is a good thing.

"Investigators say the surge of malware attacks on U.S. companies may be coming from Eastern European cybercriminals rather than being Chinese state-sponsored espionage."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57570194-83/apple-facebook-...

Mandiant report debunked:

Part 1: http://cybernonsense.blogspot.com/2013/02/chinese-hackers-an...

Part 2: http://cybernonsense.blogspot.com/2013/02/chinese-hackers-an...

Part 3: http://cybernonsense.blogspot.com/2013/02/chinese-hackers-an...

EDIT: Updated to include links to all three parts

Isn't the NHS in the process of being gutted? In fact, the current health secretary believes the NHS is irrelevant and wants it dismantled completely.

http://www.bengoldacre.net/?p=45

Just clarifying your point about the system bankrupting people. Lots of folk outside the US are under the impression that once a person has healthcare insurance everything is hunky dory. The truth is, the current system can bankrupt anybody, regardless of insurance.

Friend at Google with probably the best insurance plan in the country, broke an ankle, and after seeing doctors and physios, still had to pay out-of-pocket close to ten thousand dollars.

Something like TurnkeyLinux? http://www.turnkeylinux.org/