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Don't be so sure. I think he has a good chance, but there is still inflation worries, the housing market in a double dip, and an unusually high unemployment rate. I'd say it'll take some work to survive even a weak republican candidate. 1.5 trillion dollar deficit does not help things either.

I'm actually surprised anyone wants the job.

Looks great. I try just about every one of these new options. Kodapp was my last one, but it didnt last (back on textmate). I'll give this a try as well. It looks like it has even greater potential.

TextMate is a joke. Nothing worse than missed opportunity. Such a huge community behind it and MacroMates seems completely incapable of providing a new release.

Is it the same pronunciation as "viable"? Or is it phonetic "vay-a-ble"?

Think so? It's not a word and doesn't mean anything to me. I can't imagine having to tell it to someone in person. Anytime you have to specifically spell out your startup url, I think it's a problem.

Cool site though.

Interesting. Seems lots of similar companies doing this. Appcelerator / Sencha come to mind as I work with their products. Sencha seems to have the same arrangement as 10gen license wise (I think), yet they get massive amounts of shit since they started with BSD and then switched later to GPL (with commercial license for commercial apps).

I don't think there's really enough examples to prove this to be a viable business model just yet. These companies seem to be mainly living off VC funding, hoping to get a MySQL style exit at some point.

Hopefully I'm wrong though and they are able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a company can build a lucrative business off an open source platform. Maybe there's enough examples out there (WordPress / others?) that it's already been proven.

Scss also provides pretty good syntax compatibility with CSS. All it's features are a superset on top of CSS.

CoffeeScript "fixes" javascript in many very essential ways. The most important fix is the lack of global variables. It's all too easy to accidentally forget a var on an assignment and all of a sudden you get a global variable that can cause havok. CoffeeScript handles variable scoping extremely well, and if you need a global, you can use the more explicit: window.var = ....

Also it's class system and function binding (=>) is something I feel I can no longer live without.

I agree with your assertion to not use your framework. Believe it or not, having an open and active user base of your framework will help you and all members. Doesn't seem like you are attempting to start things off on a very good note.

These guys produce an entire awesome startup's worth of development every couple months. Definitely need to be paying more attention to the how of what they do. Luckily Tom's quite the excellent speaker and writer. When he talks, I listen.

Nice, you can change the env variable POW_DOMAIN to ".local". Much better in my opinion (works better with chrome at least)

EDIT: scratch that. You can't do this.

Pretty awesome. It took a restart to get it to work, but it's great now.

As a minor aside, is there a way to get Chrome to treat .dev domain the same as .com? Whenever I type in my .dev app name, it tries to google search for it.

Having fought LinkedIn's APIs and dealt with their crappy developer support, I'd like to give a very big warning to anyone who might be thinking about using their platform.

1) Their terms of use is unbelievably narrow. They own everything, and it's up to their discretion whether they think you are a competitor and can shut of your data access

2) Took them forever to get SSL support for their widgets. Despite tons of dev requests for it, they seemed to actively fight against it. Really friggin bizarre.

Don't play their game. If you are a great dev, ask for what you are worth (100-150 an hour). Or get solid equity. Or start your own company.

Don't be fooled by cheap gimmicks. You can buy your own Dr Pepper.

Haha. Not sure if you realized this, but you are talking to the person who built the next Facebook, aka Twitter.