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Nice too see a free alternative, even though I suspect it won't feel reliable in practice for serious sites, though I'm hardly an expert on this topic so I better leave that to experts.

What I could say though is that I'm after 6 months of usage very sold on DNSimple, those guys just rock and it's a few bucks per month - read: nothing - and updates records fast-as-*, instant support, even for obscure things as "the great firewall"-issues, etc. For those that want to pick a safe card.

This is what we been saying for long time now, and with "our" solution there's no need for barcodes - we rely 100% on "the image". No names as that will only lead to bashing, so we'll just simply add on to this chorus: Barcodes are dying.

Demo coming soon.

I use Dropbox as of today, but I would easily - already considered it - replace it with multiple alternatives. The valuation of Dropbox got me choking more than LinkedIn valuation; they aren't worth a fraction of that. Every reality-checked human on this planet knows that. They should have accepted Apples offer, I think Bitcasa will get it instead.

The "work on things you enjoy" part I buy - not the raise children part, but the article was written in a way it sounds like retirement = success. "This is how you become a me" kind of blog posts flood this forum. Very often I get the feeling too many in HN community are driven by money, which is sad.

Not everyone live with that goal. You are assuming too much.

I don't want to retire. I could not live without creating stuff. Maybe I missed the pointof the article, but it all felt very sad - capitalistic.

Sumblime Text 2 has exactly this, very neat.

Killer-tool! We have built some integrations to it to make our communication asynchronous (humans vs. humans, devs vs. servers, etc.), and got plans for even more. I know people been doing this for looong for IRC, but I find HipChat more usable for non-hackers (the biz folks "get it") and it's more tweakable (visually via HTML-formatting). Lovely.

When you start a startup I hope you do it to not fail. Even if you might fail first time(s) the mentality that "as long as I don't get fired" I consider the same as "I'm not sure about this". I would say you must believe in what you do to make it succeed, make other believe in it too.

I saw this being done way before 2007, U.S. patents are funny.

I heard Bethesda's next version of the game will be titled "The Elder Patent Trolls". I also heard they are sueing all patent trolls for being patent trolls, as they consider themselves have (TM) on that in the current game industry. Will be interesting to follow. :)

Then there are those like me that argue that G+ is for business/organizations.

We got 30-40% on each sale. Not sure it's a US issue - in Europe it's 30%+.

Thanks! :D

Yes, this is not even reminding of science. Someone felt like writing a blog post and needed something to rant...pie charts, wtf?

Lovely! Is there a site for comparing implementations of "things"/methods in different languages/frameoworks in similar fashion? That would have been really neat to learn new languages - instead of reading books (not the best noob move).

I think you missed his point; the title says it all: Same way people argue political matters, tools discussions (politics) can go out of hand with arguments created in the moment to save you own argument - thought it's a created thruth. People do it all days; basically people in general don't want to be wrong so they create a reasoning/world of assumptions were their argument holds.

"I now spend my waking hours thinking about what am I shipping today and my sleep about dreaming stuff I want to ship as soon as I wake up, if I don’t ship, I might as well be dead"

That is just so sad. I agreed until that one, living for shipping makes you live for others. What about doing things for just the casue of doing it? I don't consider my random hacks shipping, it's just a journey on the sea (to use the same methaphors).

Of course that would be a scam, no capital letters or warning signs needed - it's very basic math; 50,000 shares of unknown value X has unknown value - a 5th grader knows that.

"web programming is boring"

I got no more to say than: "prove it scientifically" (you can't). How can you say web programming is boring as a fact? It's your view.

Depends on if the startup got production material and deals. Letting people in more than a very small equity and salary is just plain stupid if you worked hard for a year to get anywhere. Hardest thing is not to compe up with an idea, hardest things are: start, execute, ship, and have models to get paid. When these are almost done, new founders are not needed - they should have joined earlier.

I've lately met people tryng to get onto the boat as if all we worked for was air. If I take someone more in for more than a good salary he/she better be a unshaped diamond.

Of course, the article mentions 50% of normal salary for 1% - that is just so stupid. The people who wants to signed up on that cannot be unshaped diamonds.

Hey man, try to pitch that to H&M or Armani. xD

1) Network works well in metro for me mostly, though it's a valid point that it might suffer here and there. But metros is just a smal fraction of the possabiities we - and retailers we talked with - see.

2) It won't be 20 apps, becuase there are only a few companies in the world that has sophisticated algorithms enough - many algorithms you can read about on the web are not realiable enough. So far no one has done a consumer product but hundreds of QR-based apps, I would say that this say a bit how hard it is. Anyone can craete a QR app based on some open-source libs.

3) Well, our demos show something else - ~1-2 seconds.

4) Flash. And scenario for scanning stuff in night dark is...not really a descent secenario anyway if it's that dark people have hard to see.

5) That's an assumption based on today's reality, because no viable succeedors are available yet that do more valuable things. Yet I haven't heard of anyone using QR codes more than once or twice for fun even though it been "hot" since for half a decade or more.

Well, if majority of retailers want this - then expect them to make customers use it asap. You got right to be pessimistic about our vision, time will tell if you are right. One thing that I'm sure of though; QR codes will not survive for long.

Well, in our case we have the long-term vision of being the first choice for bying products via image feature detection. We believe that people in the future will expect anything to be scannable, in same way anything is searchable. In both cases you might get false positives with a rating how good match it was. Though, our view is that most people haven't seen the state of the art solutions in use for consumer products. We want to change that, very soon.

These algoritms can look for features in the image in a matter of milliseconds and match those against known ones (which is not a problem, the set can be huge withour performance impact if handle correctly). If you want to detect QR codes that works per definition of image detection, but you are not bound to such - a red shirt with a tiny tiny logotype is good enough characteristic.

Not sure if I answered your question though. Did I? :)

...well NFC/RFID will be useful for some scenarios - but they don't work on distance reliably if you want to target "something" directly.

The real thing will be image scanning and nothing else. I'll post a video soon here on HN to prove that images are way better "barcodes" than both 1D and 2D/QR barcodes.

What I can say now is: 1. QR codes don't work on distances - state of the art image algoritms do. 2. QR codes mess with the brand appearance - basically H&M don't want a QR code all over an ad. 3. QR codes fail when there's reflection, dark dirt, and very skewed camera - state of the art image algoritms don't. ...

I wish I could post our video today to prove how much more convenient image scanning is - and what we use it for - for non-believers, but I have to wait a few weeks. Until then check YouTube.

Very nice, good work Peter! It crossed my mind too when I peeped Notch code (was a bit addictive) to try port it in jruby, as it was as already mentioned a very explicit Java implementation.

The FPS was higher than I expected it to be, for a script language that is. :)

McDonalds has a really bad rumour in Sweden. Yes people eat there, but people are starting to change mindsets I've noticed. Subway and such a bit healthier alternatives are becoming more popular.

Wort to notice is that what McDonalds is earning money on is not really the food, it's the real estate and speculation around these. IKEA do the same thing: "We want t build a building here" - who wants to have a store nearby? bids by other companies and regions who want people to come there more often and pay tax.