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I wonder what kind of initial capital was needed for this. Any guesses for a ballpark? Couple of millions?

I have a friend who told me his story enrolling in his university. He's a German national who grew up in Spain. I'm going to call him Andres Schmidt, as the actual name is not relevant.

In Spain, people normally have two surnames, one from the mother and one from the father (no, it doesn't exponentially grow with generations :D). He had issues enrolling in uni, as the system required two surnames so he ended up with "Andres Schmidt Schmidt". He had issues down the road as well, having to explain himself every time he needed to register for something. I think the student id was also a hash which included the name and he hadn't been consistent with his "full" name in all systems.

I can imagine a way to include language extensions in the browser and have them loaded up lazily in a sandbox. And a checkbox that says "Allow websites to run code" or something. Then you could develop an extension for your favourite language and either install them manually or have some popular ones bundled with the browser.

If we're going to run everything in the browser, why use javascript as the low-level language that stuff compiles to?

I know portability and existing standards are a limitation, but those can be influenced by the 3 (?) major browsers if needed.

I think asm.js is an awesome cute little thing, but the fact that it's taken seriously is worrisome to me.

Am I completely crazy here?

That looks great! I very much prefer the canonical SQL for querying data in a visual way, rather than a "generic" custom querying language. Does it send the query directly to the db? Is there any transformation? Does it mean it only works with sql databases?

I honestly didn't consider for a second I'd feel bad for the blogs. The reality is they get tons of e-mails and you have to sell it like you'd sell your handmade flutes in the market to somebody that is bombarded by people selling flutes. Now, lying about it through your teeth is a different story.

This reminds me of Fredric Brown, who was able to tell a horror story in two sentenced: "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door..."

So I don't think it should be that hard. I guess the idea is to _not_ tell everything, but let them directly see the potential of developing on some loose ends of that story.