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So whats the first step? An open source engine on github?

This is an understatement and I highly encourage everyone to take the time and listen.

Related discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/o6ymp/reddit_user...

Making money is not the only goal of a for profit organization. Being public certainly doesn't help but if "don't be evil" is still ingrained in Google's culture, I would expect them to support archive.org's effort.

Tutorials anywhere?

This is a beautiful resume.

I wonder if this trend will be contained to the UK looking forward. With MITx et al, in my opinion, this could be the beginning of an interesting trend. Technology has only begun to affect education.

I just want to thank the hacker news community. Vim is the kind of tool that requires a lot of persistence and hand holding to learn. I'm slowly learning and understand how I can use it to fundamentally change the way I do work on the computer. So thanks for highlighting and writing these helpful posts. they make a difference.

Thanks! We're definitely feeling a bit of that. We think there's a magic point where we balance highly relavent social events, displays deals, and displaying content made by student orgs.

haha. Here's another version of it:

http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tablets-befor...

What about a largely HTML5 based app?

Would you mind updating your entry with how many upvotes you have? I would take it to represent roughly how many others are from Israel as well.

I think the idea is ingenius. Best of luck to them.

I can't wait until the price point falls down for products like these. At a price point like $10-$20, I would be buying a six pack.

Why don't they collect email addresses?

Found it for free on Google Scholar:

http://osil.psy.ua.edu/pubs/onlinepersuasion.pdf

As a 21 year old building a tech startup, I can't help but feel like our industry is experiencing a very important shift. To me, it's not about mobile, apps, or the social stuff. It's about the tech leaders that are leaving us and the incoming generation that is only beginning to enter the workforce. Seems like there is a lot I should learn learn from John Opel.

Jake, thanks a ton for your comment. I absolutely love that Hacker News is a place where users and engineers can talk openly and comfortably.

It's been a while but if I remember correctly, there was a slider on the top right with a play button. It allowed me to scroll through the history of the doc akin to Time Machine. That visual playful approach is much more engaging than a drop down list of versions. Titles and dates really tell you nothing about the nature of the document.

Watching an essay evolve with a click of a button was awesome and uniquely informative. A killer feature that should not be sacrificed. It was certainly a feature that could help Google Docs position itself above native applications.

You're right. I almost regret this submission. But without your comment, I would have stopped exploring this.

What would you add? What did I miss?

I didn't really think through submitting this to HN. I certainly haven't had the luxury of studying Pixar's process in depth. I guess the title gives off the wrong impression.

I quickly made these slides to try to extract some concrete lessons from Ed's article in HBR. As I grapple with creative autonomy in my own startup, these slides were a way for me to start to think about introducing ideas to the co-founders.

I really wish Google docs integrated their versioning in a visual way like Etherpad. I wonder what the team is up to these days. Are they still at Google?

Android version better be coming soon.

I outsource small web dev projects with freelancers in India using this app and dropbox. It's fun to use. The push notifications are great.

When ever I am "in the zone", I keep working.

I have a siesta + short sleep routine:

My long sleep session is usually crashing soon after I get home. On top of that, I get 2-3 hours either between classes or right before my first class.

ah, the back yard

Not stressing nor relaxing.

I made a decision in middle school: I would stop going outside and I would experiment in the computer lab instead. Eventually two friends started to join me.

I never really learned how to play. It's a significant challenge to get myself off the computer and out relaxing, exploring, and enjoying free time.

There is a wonderful argument about product strategy in there. Steve Jobs says, ""you've got to start with customer the video and work backward to the technology"".

One of my favorite Benjamin Franklin quotes is:

    I have sometimes wish’d it had been my destiny to have 
    been born two or three centuries hence.

I wonder if Steve Jobs felt the same way. I would like to believe that the visionary that he was, his peaceful end was comforted by the fact that all that he envisioned was all on the right path. His few dreams that were not already made reality would soon reach millions. Not only that, but millions if not billions of people around the world now understand his vision, not just the beauty and application of his products, but the implications of a future of grand dreams and great taste.

I will forever regret never meeting the man. But I was never worth his time.

Now he has all the time in the world to relax with the greats: http://bit.ly/ng7PmU

He gave us platforms. Now it's in our hands.

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Steve knew his calling and thus the world took so much of his precious time. Less than 60 years of life: We shall forever make the best of it as he rests in peace.

The clip affected me more than anything thus far. I think I'm ready to move on now, he gave so much but the world demands so much more. For now, I think I'm done up-voting Steve Jobs.

As General Electric innovates well beyond Thomas Edison, I look forward to watching Apple continue to push society forward. Steve Jobs will in some ways live on through the Apple brand, as a symbol for so many things that resonate so strongly, I can't even express it.

Facebook just announced their Timeline feature. The first beautiful interface from Facebook. A product with a lot of feel good elements but a great way for Facebook to integrate themselves even further into the life story of it's millions of users.

Facebook is trying to be a place for social groups to interact online and also for the individual self to be discovered. I don't think both can be done effectively. There's just too much noise on Facebook as it is. I think this feature, really just a visualization of the feed, will just lead to more stalker type behavior.

Can anyone recommend any resources for getting started with Scheme?

I wonder how many of us will be building platforms that build robots one hundred years from now?