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Father: What ... what seems to be the problem.

Son: Death.

Father: Death, well I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction.

Son: I want more life, fucker.

Don't listen to some EE expert tell you the product can't be developed for less than a million. These guys are used to working at big shops that routinely throw that kind of money into the garbage. This product could have shipped, if only they had run the numbers first.

With a cheaper chip, better project management and using a shop like Proto Labs for tooling they could have made it happen. Resourcefulness, not resources. $99 is pretty aggressive, but it could be done with a slim margin.

Run the numbers first, THEN spend the money.

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Node.js, JavaScript, Python, C. Cryptography, API, frontend.

According to the article Goldman deleted the existing license and replaced it with their own. Probably a violation of most licenses.

Joyent, you so cray. Thanks for reminding us that "Never" and "Lifetime", "100% Uptime Guarantee" and "Fanatical Service" are all bullshit indicators. You've got a good cloud, you don't need to make promises that you can't keep.

Really?

I think you should touch on frequency of updates: how often does Apple release, how often does Google?

Also it's not really fair to expect that every phone is going to run the very latest Android code, especially ice cream sandwich, which expects a forward facing camera, doesn't use the navigation buttons and so forth.

I do agree with the general premise that Android carriers/manufactures tend to release and abandon. They have no interest in updating the OS after the sale, which explains the popularity of Cyanogen.

Sure it's not IRC per se, but it is persistent chat based on topic, much like IRC.

Yeah, also I think that instead of number of casualties the amount of news coverage is the more important factor.