shimsham

unfortunately not that unique. I wish it were...

cuticle nail pushers are very useful, if not essential.

Awesome and inspirational. Who came up with such a crazy yet simple and essential product? Whatever next! Airmail? Airhadoop? Airdryer! Airstore. I'm going to buy me some 11" airs to experiment.

clever stuff, thinking outside of the box.

NoDB

HN?

so many words, so little info ;-(

Was it Dehnadi and Bornat? (link in other comment)

Saeed Dehnadi and Richard have done some interesting work on... A cognitive study of early learning of programming, available at Saeed's page:

http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/

sales pitch?

syntactic saccharin?

Pivoted?

HN?

interesting. will compare this to phpfarm.

flash floods?

Is it only me, or is there something faintly worrying about a comment regarding the logo (which, as pretty as it is, has absolutely nothing to do with the announcement). May I also apologise in advance if I've inadvertantly misunderstood the purpose of the announcement.

The title promises much but the article lists well-known applications. I'm unsure where the increase in productivity comes from.

I thought this was going to be an interesting post on an implementation of Forth written in Go with shared characteristics. How disappointing.

lean startup ecosystem = not paying for things you don't need. plain language wins over every time. if a new business with little money needs a name and a logo for a fixed price, this can make economic sense. branding considers the audience and not the founders.

unfortunately a logo and 2-syllable odd-sounding name don't make a brand. however, as a cost-effective way to get a name and image, it's relatively pragmatic, especially for those who need it NOW.

IM2000 has some interesting ideas applicable to some of the issues raised here.

inches vs centimetres. damn those units.

Hmmm, Carousel was the pre-release name for Acrobat many years ago.

Better tell IBM we don't have mainframes anymore.

$10B for FancyFTP (as we call it in the office)? We find this as unsurprising as the activities of stock markets, banks, hyping writers and people. And Groupon. And companies. And politicians.

When's the right time to bring my degraded-buckyball communication unit to market?

yay. I can now reactivate my uucp-style email addressing.

sounds like jealousy. innovate!

;-) nice. this is how people learn to wear the careful gloves if they have to do things as root, or when sudoing.

I think the analogy is tenuous but nevertheless valid. i saw where the article was going from the start. and of course, it's not about forcibly doing the wrong thing but the point at which u realise and what you then do. hopefully this is only done once.

when some friends, relatively new to unix, asked me various questions, I asked them what would happen if they did:

cd /; rm -fr /

I then suggested that, just to make sure they understood the consequences, they do this on basic Linux virtual machine so they could break the machine as much as they needed. illustrative, useful and they never felt they needed to do it again. bruises and cuts have their place :)

yes, it's all about learning