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With all the 'spring cleaning' going on recently at google, my main concern would be the likelihood of this service staying available permanently.

Even if diaspora fails completely, all the investors will have still gotten something else for their money. The fact that diaspora overshoot their initial 10K goal by such a wide margin coupled with all the ensuing publicity the story is getting, is sending a loud and clear signal to Facebook that people are very dissatisfied with the current Facebook direction.

In fact, they're so dissatisfied, that they're willing to put their money where their mouth is, which is a very strong signal to send to Facebook.

Even if diaspora goes nowhere, it might still have a positive impact on Facebook.

Videos from MongoSF: http://www.10gen.com/event_mongosf_10apr30

That's a great tip, that i'm going to start using.

Thanks.

I love the new two-in-one progressbar, showing overall progress and progress of current file in a single progressbar.

I'm on a danish keyboard; the programmer-handy keys like "[" and "]" have been moved to shortcuts (alt-9 for "]") to make room for the danish letters "æøå", so some of the combo's that are easy to make on english keyboards are next to impossible on mine.

Once in an effort to reach maximum typing efficiency, i attempted a switch to VIM+Dvorak. However, i quickly realized that i would have to use a Danish variant of Dvorak (there is no official standard..) and remap VIM to oblivion, which would make me too much of an oddball masochist.

The author recommends remapping "kj" to ESC.

I've remapped caps lock to ESC, which I think is a far better use of that useless button, and a hack i recommend to everybody i know who uses VIM.

I could never understand that VIM choose to put such an important button so far away from the homerow.

Darnit, no Denmark :(

I think it's a good idea, and i'd subscribe if my country was supported.

Maybe it's just me, but i was hoping for deeper insight into how the device feels in day-to-day usage, not just a list of features that i might as well have read on Apples info pages.

Stuff like: how the device feels to sit with for longer periods of time, is it more natural to type with one finger or both thumbs when sitting, can i read while lying down... All the stuff that isn't just "it has this amount of ram, you can view videos and the web on it and...."

The SQL looks way easier (and shorter). I hope somebody will take it upon themselves to write an sql-to-mongo-mapreduce compiler.

HARO is a good business for Peter Shankman, I just googled it and first link says $800K/year around the start of 2009[1].

The point being that it's probably not so much about him not liking that you mentioned him[2], as the fact that you're stepping onto his turf, and him wanting to defend it.

[1] = http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/news/adweek_haro_is_800k...

[2] = You write: "I’m pretty disappointed that Peter decided to be such a jackass about this. If he had bothered to write me an email, I would have gladly removed his name and never mentioned this to anyone."

But beware that you'll have to give your e-mail address to get the results. It's a trap.

HTML5 is not a valid alternative to Flash. Sure, there is some overlap between them, but there are way more differences.

It's (like so much else) like comparing an apple to an orange.

I actually think that the period to end blocks syntax is one of the most interesting things about it. It's such a small thing, but i find it quite intriguing.

I love the fact that we've gotten speed of innovation back into web browsers, and i wouldn't ever want to go back.

However, i also fondly remember a time not long ago where all i had to do was to develop in IE6 and I'd be sure it would work for most everybody ;-)

It's not a matter of ensuring that people are good at view sourcing -- it's a matter of filtering out the people who don't even know how to do that.

ThinkGeek has two shirts which are highly related:

one features a drumset: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/ac0b/

and the other has a guitar you can strum: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/c498/

The negative part about them is that the gear is not extrudes a little bit from the shirt itself.

I, for one, welcome a django-like templates for .net -- Especially since it's open source.

I looked for exactly this half a year ago, and couldn't find anything. I ended up writing my own template language, which i never would have done if there was a good option out there already. I'll probably open source my template language also, just in case anybody finds it usefull.

It's actually one of the bad things about .net: the open source community is much smaller than for other languages. Usually when you need something (like a nice template language), you have some commercial options and very few open source projects -- if any -- that hopefully are still maintained and up to date.

WriteRoom is cool for sure. If you ever need to "upgrade" a bit, then i've personally found Ulysses to be the next logical step. It has a fullscreen mode akin to writeroom, but also supports semantic marking for later output generation + system for keeping track of related documents in a "project"

No affiliation, just like it.

I looked into using @font-face for a project a week or two ago.

I ended up not using it because most fonts (i tried a lot) looks really bad anti-aliasing turned off; especially at the small (body-text) font sizes.

If only there was a way to tell the browser to only use the fonts if anti-aliasing was turned on

Years ago, i wrote a compressor for javascript.

I called it "Arnold" because it was strong and squeezed javascript into a smaller shape.

In my humble opinion, the biggest advantage of .net, is visual studio.

For the on boarding experience, i think it's really worth putting emphasis on the fact that the free Express versions are really fully functional products for daily use.

My spam avoidance scheme is to own my own domain, and then have *@mydomain.com go to my inbox, so i can create disposable addresses for any use at any time.

For instance, I always sign up with [servicename].account@mydomain.com and only ever give out my personal e-mail to people i meet in person.

The great thing is that if a [servicename].account address starts getting spam, i know which service sold my address and i can just blackhole that address.

That way, i never have to obfuscate my address, since i'll always just create a new one for the specific need. It's probably not for everyone though...

"Less than free" sounds a lot like what i would normally just call "revenue share".

Very simple, short explanation. Reminds me that shorter is usually better.

Another way is to hold down option when switching app by clicking another app's window or dock icon.

This will hide the current app and all its windows, and it's already enabled by default on os x.

MonoTouch (monotouch.net) is exactly the same approach for .NET instead of Flash.

Slightly off-topic, but the cd-company mentioned (swiftcd.com) has a brilliant frontpage headline: "At SwiftCD, we create custom CDs and DVDs one at a time, and ship them world-wide directly to your customers."

Nobody that ends up at that website, accidentally or not, will be confused about what that company does.

There is also extjs (http://extjs.com/)

I'm not a lawyer... But, isn't it a legal issue?

My guess would be that the reason they're acting like they are, is that they have to strictly enforce the rules as they are written.

If they make exceptions or even approve an app that doesn't conform 100%; could that not later be used as a prior art opening up all sorts of discussions/legal-nastyness?

If they rephrased the rules such that they could use their own best judgement on a case-by-case basis, the discussions would just be bigger when one app gets approved and another one doesn't.

At least this way, it should be fairly clear as an app developer whether your app will get approved or not: If they can find anything "bad" in it, it won't.