shaunol

"I'm not so different .. It's just that .."

You include yourself and then exclude yourself in the very next sentence.

I know you're excited and eager to share what you feel has empowered & enlightened you but you shouldn't take it to heart when not everyone else is on the same wavelength.

It's nice to advocate healthy living but I really think you're looking too much into the reason why people may not have found your video particularly interesting. Though you raise a discussion on a topic that may be worth exploring, all you've done is stereotype an entire community - which you yourself are an active participant.

Keep in mind, this is a tech community - people that want better living & health advice will seek it out.

This is becoming an increasingly common and frustrating thing for products posted here to HN.

How did this product even get to the front page when it's almost impossible to actually tell what it is or the problems it solves?

I scrolled down past the screenshot expecting to read an introduction about it and now we're suddenly talking about StyleKits??? Huh?

E: Quite ironic that the URI path is /intro and the main header "Introducing PaintCode 2", when the page does everything except introduce the product.

Having not found much of anything, we're going to roll our own gateway. It seems to be the only way and extremely cost effective. Probably just using some variation of Android SMS gateway software.

Sitting here thinking the same thing ..

Can't say I've ever had performance issues or even a moments downtime whilst using gmail since it was launched.

Is a paid vs. free solution even comparable?

It's also a bit weird to compare the requests made on initial load considering these web pages are arguably meant to be kept open- but regardless, shouldn't the browser be caching these?

I think a more fair & thorough comparison would be to investigate what gmail has that other solutions don't by introducing the larger initial overhead. I'm guessing a lot of cross platform compatibility code and plenty of code to integrate to Google's other services.

In which case, I would say if you are concerned about the initial page load and having more responsive interface (once again, no complaints here) and don't need integration to Google's ecosystem, you may not be the target customer for gmail. Which is okay.

This doesn't appear to do anything for me on my iPad, is this an iPhone only thing?

This is great for me as a developer for an internal-use website that primarily targets tablets.

Knockout is so, so good.

I just wish it had proper API documentation. There are no real docs, only examples/tutorials, this can be quite frustrating.

If you've never used data bindings in HTML/JS, you HAVE to give this a try.

If you're still using jQuery & other manual event handlers to change the state of your UI, you GOTTA try it!

This is quite awesome - Visual Studio support would rock!