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I wonder if this is one of the reasons we are stuck with crappy development tools in era of slick iPads. Not only do we balk at the amount being raised (also happened with ruby.app), we also tend to criticize any thing that looks new and trying to change status quo. At the worst this will be a half baked IDE while still offering some creative features paving way for (hopefully) better future IDEs. You don't see many people haring off to criticize other creative projects the same way outside programming world.

You can specify it in the domain settings. I haven't used it but the option is available (with out showing any upgrade button)

One of the big appeals of youtube is that a submitted video is available everywhere (well majority of the countries). Google would rather pay hefty fines than lose that.

I still see the reflections if I close my eyes :(

and of course the handle is semi-colon shaped and completely optional!

While it does look nice and all, I still can't figure out what differentiates this from other similar offerings (I see the same problem with many new project management software).

Nice work.. I didn't expect it to be so responsive. Almost feels like using a desktop application.

That's because its not Java. They are not allowed to call it Java. The only claims left from oracle at this point are that google used 'Java' (the language) without permission and they have used api interfaces aka function names and class names (ArrayList.GetItem() ArrayList.AddItem() stuff). There is no copying of the implementation anywhere. AFAIK if oracle wins this case, they can go ahead and sue Microsoft for providing ArrayList class in C#/.net - they almost have similar interfaces.

The more I think about this case, that more I hate Oracle. They are hurting Java's long term future for a few million bucks. Android provided lots of momentum for Java platform and if they end up switching to some other language (Go/python) everyone loses. Of course once oracle wins, there will be every one suing every one else having similarity in api interfaces.

The more I think of pebble and all the interest, the more feel that one of the bigger companies making smartphones might acquire them :)

What leads to stress and frustration is not the craving for the solution but rather the pressure to find the solution. Most of the time this kind of thing happens in day jobs because there is less emphasis on learning and more on getting things done.

I think the mobile landscape is going to look pretty barren in a few more years. Just like the desktops, we seem to near the consolidation of mobile OS market with weaker sides getting eliminated rapidly.

I think pebble is the next big thing and might even get rid of its dependence on the mobile phone in future. Just imagine Siri helping you get through your day with out taking the phone out of the pocket!

We worked on a startup product a few months which is currently shelved. It had a file system like interface and simplified moving files between dropbox, amazon S3, google docs and multiple accounts (any one with two dropbox accounts ?).

With all this google drive news, its pretty tempting to bring it back to life :)

Actually, the new features introduced in C# increases developer productivity quite a bit. More importantly they increase the readability of code by cutting down on the repetitive stuff. Once some one uses LINQ, lambdas and dynamics its hard to go back.