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Ouch. It's always sad to see someone forfeit their intellect and take someone else's thoughts as absolute truth. And I say this as a churh-attending Christian. Shame on my religion.

Haxe (www.haxe.org) also has ported a decent subset of the API, and can simultaneously target Flash, JS and C++ (native). Not sure about who has better coverage of the full API.

As someone attempting to create a MVP and then bootstrap in Perth, thanks for helping me feel less-bad about my efforts :) It is possible to have a startup here (one of my day jobs is at one), but it is certainly less common than I imagine it to be in the US.

One thing I've noticed is that people here tend to aim for services rather than products. You can make money a lot faster contracting for a big mining company than you can trying to develop a product, fund it, market it, and make profit off it.

I'd even go as far as to say it's cultural - we're less likely to take the risk - probably because the big reward (anything to do with the mining industry) is so low risk to begin with. You even see it in other sectors - for example musicians over here are more likely to try making a living in a related service (music teaching etc) with guaranteed income than "risk" investing in their own music and trying to get big selling a product.

Tempted to move to NYC now and follow your lead!

I live in Perth where this guy is from, and Wesley is one of the most expensive and most highly regarded schools around. Given the sentiment of the headmaster, I'm not surprised it's doing so well... Seeing beyond "get my school's average up" and seeing genuine talent and potential, then fostering it - that's the sort of school I'd send my one-day kids to.

The defacto-standard already seems to be happening with Twitter Bootstrap. Give it another few years and I expect this will spread into more well-known apps (or the current startups using it will become more prominent).

And I do think people are addressing the other issues. Chrome's Web-App API can open pages in new windows without the browser UI, and Firefox is due to have their similar API available soon.

Things like keyboard shortcuts will likely sort themselves out eventually: for example, Github's issue tracking tries to mirror the keyboard shortcuts of gmail wherever the actions are similar.

That would be the ideal interface.

1) Open camera from lock screen 2) Take photo 3) If QR code is detected, offer to open it. 4) Later when browsing photos, remember it's a QR code, offer the link again, so that we can come back to it later. 5) If no QR code is detected, treat it as a normal photo.

> A prophecy: The first entity to put a state-of-the-art UI on top of Linux will have an opportunity to compete with Apple directly.

I think this is Canonical's current strategy: they're not relying on KDE/Gnome to get their act together, rather they're trying to roll their own with Unity.

They had a shocking start (very unfinished when launched) but they're moving really quickly. I personally find it nice to use now. Still not at Apple levels of state-of-the-art or polish, but if they keep the pace up they'll overtake Win7 before long and within a few years might offer serious competition to Apple.

I'm guessing the server is under some load at the moment as it's running pretty slow. But very cool demo page, been using it the last few days. I'm impressed with how small Haxe's JS output has gotten lately.

Clément hacked this together as a weekend project. Source code is here for those interested: https://github.com/clemos/try-haxe

Well done :)

I came in expecting to hear people ranting about why jQuery is inferior to some other Javascript framework / coding style. Instead the people are positive and the sample code is sweet...

My laptop is in for repair and is taking a disturbingly long time, but my friend lent me his out-of-use EeePC with a 10" inch screen.

I'm amazed at how much work I have actually managed to get done. When I'm in the office I dock it to a keyboard/mouse/monitor, but even on the road I've found myself able to use it, once I adjusted to the keyboard.

If you run light-weight ubuntu (lubuntu for me), have your browser/editor/terminal in fullscreen, and you can get back to work. The slow processor does struggle with our companies rails app though...