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pitayon Boring Systems Build Badass Businesses

I don't think bsaul was saying he/she was going to use Google App Engine, just that the big company would not consider anything else other than their java/spring stack.

Here is the quote from bsaul: For the big company i had to go with java spring mvc + sencha, they didn't want to hear of any new tech that would be different from what they were used to.

pitayon Ask HN: Idea Sunday

Smallest Federated Wiki[1] is something you may be interested in.

Smallest Federated Wiki is a distributed wiki. It allows anyone to fork a page by clicking the fork button; this copies the page to their own wiki and they can edit it. The original wiki owner(s) can then decide whether to merge the change into the original page.

Ward Cunningham has a few short videos about it at http://wardcunningham.github.io/.

[1] http://fed.wiki.org/ and https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki

pitayon How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry

Leading people to ruin is not ethical. Ripping vulnerable people off is not ethical.

Where did you get this view on ethics? It certainly isn't most peoples view, for sure.

pitayon Announcing Chess 2

The only reason that chess is balanced today is that the teams have the same pieces. Any game would be balanced if the board is symmetric and both sides pieces are the same. The issue is who goes first.

You can't just add 5 new races to the game and expect it to work out perfectly.

Agreed, however it may make it more interesting to a lot of people.

pitayon Exhibit A – the “child pornographer”

Here is a book which is full of them. It is called 'Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex' by Judith Levine. http://www.amazon.com/Harmful-Minors-Perils-Protecting-Child...