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It's already way past 11pm EST.

I feel guilty for posting this, because these new devices have NO HealthKit integration. That's a deal breaker for me and a ton of others!

So is this basically TypeScript with annotations and types available at runtime?

This place is way better designed and equipped than most startup cowering spaces!

Yeah, it definitely is EcmaScript 6. They've added the "class" and "constructor" keywords. Typescript is very mush modeled after EcmaScript 6 anyways, so technically it can be both. But I'm sure it's EcmaScript6, because that's what Angular 2 is written in.

This almost sounds like an oxymoron.

I agree. There is virtually no way you can smoothly upgrade an Angular 1 project to this. You'd have to redo most of it from scratch. There are a lot of huge projects that are built on Angular 1 -- many enterprise products too. And this is a huge blow to maintenance. It might be a reason for a lot of people dropping Angular and going for something that makes more business sense. Maybe it's React's time to shine.

Is he using TypeScript or ECMAScript 6? Also, is it just me, to does this seem like a completely different framework than Angular 1?

I think this is what he's trying to do with the Google Maps thing: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/geolocation/trip_mete...

I think he's talking about the navigator.geolocation object.

It's an acqui-hire; they want to build the most talented team so that they can develop the best smart-home devices. They're going head-to-head against Apple, but with a very different strategy. Apple is trying to build the best mobile devices and the best SDK to create a huge market and a great dev environment for developers to build devices for HomeKit. Google's strategy seems to be to build their own great smart home devices.

That's a viable reason. But I think they're mainly doing that because Tony Fadell is in charge of Google's whole smart home operation, so Nest has to remain the overarching brand.

How can Mailbox compete against this then?

This is a lot like what @paulg was talking about on his "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas" essay when he talks about replacing email: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

Read this: http://www.fastcompany.com/1841389/how-reddit-built-its-empi...

Do you know of any experiment where machine learning was applied to building an algorithm that learned anaphora resolution based on a human generated training set. I'd love to read any articles/papers you have on this. Thanks!

How does this compare to Mailbox from Dropbox?

This was right before they launched their iPhone app and got acquired.