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"I've found I'm much more efficient than I was pre-baby" this is exactly what happend with me too http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1537811

Funny, I created something very similar couple days ago based on rocket.js: http://github.com/k7d/rocket_todo

(only it uses web SQL DB instead of local storage)

Would you care to point to "far better quality machine" out there? I haven't seen one...

Maybe I missed it but is there any kind of offline support? Ie. What happens when update to server fails? Or it's completely up to the developer?

one little criticism - frontpage looks a bit too similar to Evernote:

http://www.greplin.com/ http://www.evernote.com/

Maybe it would also make sense to emphasize data security since in essence you give the service access to every private bit of information you have online. It's not mentioned anywhere in frontpage and I'm hesitating to signup without some reassurance that data will be safe.

Other than that, good stuff.

I actually find it quite disturbing. When your conscious mind has been very focused on something the whole day it will naturally keep the momentum. That in turn makes it difficult to fall asleep and when you do the sleep is often quite thin. What I figured is that if you find a way to turn your mind off either with meditation or some distraction (for example movie or book), the sleep is much better and the next morning is usually much more productive and often the mind comes up with some suprising new ideas.

I think he used laptops as metaphor for web (social networks, blogs, etc). There are so many ideas but none of them is yours. The more your mind is surrounded with other people ideas, the harder it is to come up with something original and fresh.

The point is that Java webapps are multihreaded. Classic Ruby apps require dedicated process for every parallel request. Hence your 4GB java app may still be more efficient than 500MB Mongrels.

I'm in Europe and bandwidth costs are relatively insignificant (as long as you don't travel abroad). Data roaming is whole different story, I really hope European Union will do something about it.

"In light of that, we no longer have plans to charge a supplement to make calls over 3G."

I think this is huge. Mobile networks still charge 2$+ per minute for international calls. This basically makes it irrelevant.

in such case, from usability standpoint, why not design login screen with Google ID in epicenter and other login options as secondary. would be less confusing to average non-techie

the niche has potential, but what's the deal with domain name? it could use some imagination and 24 characters is just little too much

You only have people you "can't lose" when the whole team is mediocre. If you have at least couple great programmers they will usually have enough drive to learn every aspect of the project. And they will be able to pick up anything in days even without much knowledge sharing.

Exactly.

I didn't mean it's wrong to create things just because you can. I do it all the time, and learned pretty much everything I know this way.

Totally agree it's a great thing for educational purposes, I was just questioning if it can be considered as something more than an educational tool.

So is Google now going to have a toy-app contest, like they did originally for real Android apps?

Jokes aside, I guess I'm a bit skeptical about these pseudo-developement envirnoments. It's a nice concept to demo but does it realy have any practical applications in real world? I mean, really practical, something that people create not just because they can, but because they need it.

I think pretty much anybody from Europe follows at least a little

Online dating can work very well (it has worked for me) but be patient. It will take time until you really get it. Practice, practice, practice. Don't give up if you have no luck right away. There are subtle communication aspects that you can learn as you go, and they make all the difference.

And keep away from specialized dating sites. Go with Facebook or any other kind of communication platform that are not invented exclusively for dating. People are just much more natural there. With some practise you can fairly easy figure out if there's a date potential just by looking at a profile.

The argumentation is a bit on weak side. There are really no rules, it's just all about confidence, which only comes with practice. You can't learn that by reading articles like this.

During an interview, put your candidate outside his comfort zone, if you can, and it will tell you much more than any formal bullshit.

2010.. the year of blogquiting? :)

This article sounds like a typical enterprise architect bullshit. And he is missing the point. NoSQL is so much more than simple KV store. NoSQL Wants To Be "Elastic Caching" When It Grows Up. What is he smoking?

Old truth, but it never hurts to remind ourselves.

I tend to agree that this is useless in terms of figuring out the right price point. It may also have a kind of psychological devaluation effect on the service.

As a publicity stunt, it makes sense. Although it would make much more sense for an already well known entity to stir things up a bit (just like Radiohead did with their album).

Been there for quite some time. I can't agree more - a lot of things are wrong in enterprise world. Couple big ones from my experience:

- Process-centric culture. Most enterprises have processes for making processes. Process always complicates everything. And most people inside will blindly protect the process, so it's really difficult to question it.

- Artificially complicated solutions from "big vendors" (read Oracle, IBM etc). They keep adding new "features" over an over only to have something to sell constantly. I have never seen an enterprise software being simplified. A lot of people inside enterprise will again protect these since their jobs may become redundant if simpler solutions are introduced.

I'm intending to add a dashboard which would look kind of like a calendar with would show completed task on each day.

I like the numbered list idea as well. Thanks for a tip!

This actually gave me an idea. TXT file import/export and potentially automatic synchronization would make a lot of sense.

Especially since the primary niche I'm building this for is a technically-savvy crowd, such as developers and development teams.

This way you might even use a text file if you prefer for managing to-dos, but Codo would make sure it's synchronized to web and even take care of teamwork-related aspects.

Speaking openly, it's a business related issue.

The desktop app is free and it always will be. I'm even intending to open source it one day once the code is solid.

The business model is to provide added value via web-services. Some of it may also be free and some may be charged for.

So, being said that, It makes sense to provide migration path from RTM and alike, but integrating directly with it - not so much.

Have to admit - haven't tested it on Linux yet. Will look into this today.

There are some ideas in this direction as well. It makes sense to organize to-dos and notes in the same fashion.

I'm actually using Evernote myself, it's a good app, but still there are are a number of unnecessary features, and couple critical ones missing.