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This is just a trashy rant who scrapes everything together to demonize the big valley companies. There is no coherent message, he throws "monopolist" around like republicans "socialist". Not even starting with questionable facts like DOS being based on CP/M.

The most laughable quote: "Facebook builds nothing, manufactures nothing, creates nothing."

This guy wants Amazon and Google to be nationalized on another article, sure that will solve all these problems.

I feel bad giving this guy views.

Your own/free software will run on your Raspberry Pi at home, or your independent hosting provider in Island etc.

It just doesn't happen that much on the desktop any more. It's still up to you if you want to use the software from adobe.com or the "Gimp cloud" on your home server.

This could even be an opportunity, because giving a link to non-technical users is easier than installing software locally. In that sense it could close a gap that existed previously.

Why not a GoPro on a wheel?

Edit: I just think I should've googled that first.

Yep, I hope it's not the dubbed crap everybody else has. I wonder if this is a licensing issue or a service issue.

Do you know the movie Idiocracy? That is basically propaganda for that idea.

You have to see that in context, this was before the second world war and he wasn't aware that in the future you can manipulate/analyze genes.

Today he would probably just be an advocate for that kind of technology.

Definitely not an easy topic, but also not black and white.

Maybe there is more from him, but your source indicates an opinion like that.

And E-Plus the third biggest German carrier gets sold to Telefonica for $11.8 billion. Did anybody hear about that?

Telcos wanna deny it but it's close to a commodity. This is mostly money shifting around. When was the last time they introduced a game changer? Google Fiber is something else, it's simply 50 times faster than the average Internet connection.

A FeedBurner "User" is not equal, this was a publisher service.

The real target were the feed subscribers, or maybe they are where can I check the data?

The same goes for Youtube, how many visitors did they have? They bring in the ad revenue.

Compared to Facebook/Whatsapp where you can usually only participate by being a user.

Well even if something is "broken" you have to use it once in a while, how can you avoid function scope and typeof?

Also sometimes you have to maintain code, so it's not a choice.

There are always explanations that are helpful. You have to know about the pitfalls to be able to avoid them.

The questions just make you study the examples and also it's more fun this way.

I wouldn't say that.

The really nasty bugs come exactly from examples like these. This can save you hours at some point, I had to find some of them the hard way.

It feels more like an interactive version of wtfjs.

This is a general problem for hackathons, the idea of limiting something like development is impossible.

Even if you don't code, you could plan the whole concept, user your super familiar framework and there is a huge difference to the "spirit" of just developing the concept on the spot.

I don't want to say I dislike hackathons in general, but not for huge prices. Just meeting interesting people and trying to build something together is the really valuable part.

No, Dart is not CoffeScript.

It really compiles, so you don't have to worry about it. The languages are so similar that stuff that is fast in Dartium will work pretty fine in JS.

Not a good comparison.

Java and C# are both well designed server side languages. C# has the simple advantage of being younger and learn from Java in the real world.

JavaScript in the real world is not even close to Dart. JavaScript is currently trying to solve problems Java never had to begin with.

In almost every category Dart is technically superior. Shouldn't be a surprise, they took their time and learned from more than a decade of dealing with JavaScript. They are also not done yet, they are planning to inject binary code directly into memory.

Just look at Lars Bak's history, he is the right guy to create the Java/JavaScript successor for the web.

It's not so much a social network. It's about content. I look there once a day for the occasional kitten gif and some interesting articles. I follow The Economist for example.

It's okay, but nothing compared to HN or Reddit.

I would love to see some Dart discussion with Lars Bak.

I have a DHL Post box around the corner, it transformed online retail for me. I buy now almost everything except groceries online.

> I feel sorry for whoever was tasked with making this application.

That sounds just condescending to me.

What is the problem with a < 4kb runtime and some browser hacks?

Who cares about what you think? Give some constructive criticism or shut up.

Do you know how much code this is for a runtime and how many browser incompatibility issues this solves.

Maybe what you say is true,

but it has the positive side effect that we prepare ourselves for Peak Oil what will happen anyway.

Have been there too, had the exact same feeling.

It is a running business, he pitched his company, that he has thousands of customers already. I heard the guy did the same at other hackathons in Berlin.

The Technical guy was a professional who knew from the beginning what he had to do, we spent half the time developing a concept.

Yeah unfortunately hapi didn't, but this was one of the rare cases when it's not superior to express.

I probably take it out once I am out of development so all the route methods stay untouched.

True, is the de facto standard super call in js.

Changed it

I find it much more infuriating about "too big to fail" that nobody gives a shit about small startups who get bullied into bankruptcy by this.

So the winner get's cash for people spending money on Godus and to decide stuff about the game....

I think the biggest problem it creates for the big ones is lack of focus.

By trying to be everything at the same time, they become cluttered and complicated.

The official report says this was more of an excuse to get rid of old hardware.

Funny how fast that was, I just did it and wondered what was wrong with his.

Yeah that's what I thought too, a lot of spreekillings are about attention.

I also think they were waiting to show their big toys out on the street. Armored vehicles for a 19 year old without military training and equipment?

Yeah just got M-Net in January.

But we are blessed compared to the rest of the country.

Our genius federal government built the infrastructure first and then created a private monopoly who owns all of it. The worst of both worlds. The funny thing is they bought with all the money an US provider and are now the underdog over there.

Awesome Justin,

finally something that every web developer understands immediately and really takes the pain out of realtime for a lot of people.