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Seems like this is in direct competition with Parse.

I look forward to kicking the tires, since I've been looking for a solid replacement for Parse ever since Facebook bought them.

The launch of this campaign is about a month and a half late. It would have been much more appropriate to launch on April 1st.

Wow. I really wish that I had the karma to downvote this incorrect and totally insensitive comment.

3.5 hours of battery? For a laptop in 2012? Seriously?

How does Steve Ballmer still have a job? I don't think that you could find a less inspirational, more pointy-haired boss tech executive.

Microsoft needs another visionary at the helm, or it will never make a comeback.

I'm wondering if this posting is a practical joke of some sort. The post linked to here is so dense with vocabulary, yet somehow lacks any meaningful content.

I kept reading only to see if there was a punchline at the bottom. Something to the effect of: "See? All that crap written above really cries out for some information architecture, doesn't it?"

This is very exciting news! I see this as being a very good thing for both Light Table and Clojure in general.

I don't really care what I get for my money. I was just glad to have an opportunity to support a prolific developer that is making the Clojure community a better place.

Neat idea. How do you plan to monetize?

Is this posted because the Ultrabook is interesting, or because the scroll-to-animate functionality of the website is interesting? For me, it's the latter, since I have long forsaken Dell.

Once the site loaded completely (which took a fair bit of time), I was able to use scrolling to move forward/backward through the animation of the demo. This is certainly an interesting UX, but after about 20 seconds of this I found it cumbersome.

I'm really glad to see this. This looks like a great resource, and with community contributions will only continue to get better.

I think that Amazon should probably admit the error and pay the guy. However, the publicity that the author is now receiving over this is probably worth far more than the price of 6,000 books.

In the end, he'll probably be secretly thanking Amazon for allowing him to rise above obscurity.

I think this is the way to go. Offer folks one or two shorter examples of your work for free, and they will be more comfortable with purchasing your longer works.

If the free examples are solid, then they will be linked to and shared. This will help establish your name and expertise in the subject matter, and will bring many more eyeballs to your site, which will hopefully convert into sales.