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You won't like the answer but don't convince, VB.NET is much easier to learn your younger crowd, .NET has more job opportunities and switching to F#, C# from VB.NET is much easier.

I agree, although to be completely free either you'll be next big thing (or fairly big) like delicious in this case or you'll have a premium version.

Upgrade to support can be a revenue stream for a small startup but in the long run obviously you can't rely on that.

Hardest bit about fremium model is where to draw the line.

I wonder who's going to drop a auto-run USB worm into them...

Almost all the time, also I feel even more guilty for not helping them out enough.

Never heard anyone sells offline cheat for money? Care for an example if such a thing ever happened?

What you write is totally different from what article says. That article states that Blizzard also bans people who plays offline/single player games, I'm sure everyone is fine with banning online cheaters.

One big question is if you need confirmation button then should you put a "Cancel" or "No"? or both?

That's the obvious plan isn't it? Sure iPhone won't be in the list but that's because of Apple not Adobe.

This is a big deal, if Google improve Android Store as well then new Android - AIR apps can be a new era for Android.

I mean select

Better solution would be getting rid of "break" and breaking by default like VB but no one would like that...

switch in C syntax is terrible implemented, VB done this one so much better. That's one of the reasons why switch is not that popular in C languages (people tend to do crazy if-then-else stuff) and so popular in VB, most devs tries to use select where possible.

Is there any point in this post beside of the fact Steve Ballmer mentioned about this guy vaguely in his talk?

They didn't integrate into the Outlook though, they did integrate into Windows Desktop Search

Does it? Since when? Do you think 37Signals potential customers feel good about feel-scammy-website? Maybe casual average-joe might like it (Only God knows why) but I don't think their potential clients would

New website looks like Scammy Ebook 2.0, you know those yellowish scam/drity/spam marketing ebook sale websites, somehow that's what it reminded me.

It's no big deal but use a professional voice-over (costs about $500) in your video, it'll look much more professional.

I think spotting, for example lookout outlook plugin acquired by MS, which seems clearly to me MS needed such solution and lookout already solved it nicely. So why re-invent the wheel and spend more money when you got a safe choice.

Focusing one specific problem and solving it in the best way possible (this doesn't mean hardcore-awesome-superb-crazy coding) is still a pretty killer thing to have. That's why it's worthy to Google, do your rainy weekend work and sell to Google, then pleas submit to HN.

Someone was actually trying to do this in UK (saw them on Dragon's Den). Good idea but needs marketing power.

So you think a startup's 35% of success is based on their name?

Mint is a great name agreed but what's the actual impact? 5%? 10%? 50%? Possibly not even 5%

We keep getting this I think every other 2-3 months, I'm not quite sure why such a smart guy fell for the first one :) We keep ignoring those guys.

If you do business (by any means), 99% of the time you need to do stuff you don't like. I don't think he loves spending 1 hour to explain a teacher something step by step. Or write documentation for end users and millions of other small non-techy, non-fun stuff.

If you make money either from you own business or someone else's you have to do not-so-fun stuff all the time. That's the reality. Amount of not-so-fun stuff can change massively though.

You either slave of your boss or of your own customers :)

Actually maybe the attacker was watching commits in github and spotted an XSS fix :) Free vulnerability!

They never were, it was a myth.

Using timing attacks in this case is almost not possible any actual web user would know that, do you think you can accurately analyse that the application's choice of code brunch in 35000 requests successfully? (in a multi-threaded attack)

Unless you are sitting by the server physically or it's in your localhost (even than, not for sure) timing attack simply not feasible.

Sure, it was.