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Re:Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook by taliesinb on Thursday August 30, 2012 @05:23PM (#4456905)
Yup, it sucks. That happened to me with Light Table, though I had only been developing very rough prototypes rather than any kind of polished demo.

On the positive side, there is a sense in which it is still overall a good thing. You might have had your thunder stolen, but at least more people are now looking up at the sky, and you've had the opportunity to think deeply about where the winds are blowing.

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Re:Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook by ninetax on Thursday August 30, 2012 @05:31PM (#4456943)
Thanks, I definitely feel that way too, plus they totally missed some things here which are pretty important to me like privacy, more friend analysis, openness as a platform and predictive models.
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Re:Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook by mej10 on Thursday August 30, 2012 @06:52PM (#4457296)
I definitely wouldn't stop on a Light Table like thing if you have made much progress. While I am very excited and optimistic about Light Table, there are a lot of choices to make. Especially as they are somehow going to try to monetize it, I think there is definitely room for competitors.
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Re:Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook by debacle on Friday August 31, 2012 @07:50AM (#4459233)
Don't give up. There is a ton of room in the IDE space, and Light Table isn't going to get it all right.

If you create a tool that saves devs 1 hour a week, you're saving a 10 man shop 25k/year.

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Re:Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook by sherbondy on Thursday August 30, 2012 @11:43PM (#4458164)
Why not work on Light Table? http://kodowa.com/jobs
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Re:Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook by Evbn on Friday August 31, 2012 @01:42AM (#4458440)
Write an Eclipse or Vim plugin instead, and have a greater impact.
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Re:Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook by taliesinb on Friday August 31, 2012 @02:24AM (#4458541)
I'd like to, but I suspect this kind of thing: http://imgur.com/ZIVd4 is best done in an HTML-based IDE like Light Table where you can take advantage of SVG.
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