Ability to run on Heroku

> Not exactly a geological timescale

A. Humans don't live on a geological timescale

B. .com TLD's are in the formidable first ~15 years of socializing the web the mass public.

Like climate control in your house

I know what you are referring to, but I would say no. Not like that at all.

The ideal climate control interface should never even have to be looked at. It should just know what to do with your heating/cooling equipment to make your house comfortable.

A ideal TV interface should help you do a lot of things, and ideally be fast in the process.

(The article was down while I was writing this comment, but cable equipment and TVs drive me nuts.)

>A ideal TV interface should help you do a lot of things,

That's kind of a judgement call - there's nothing wrong with a minimal interface that does what you want it to and nothing more.

Kind of like Chrome as a browser - Google's big thing with its design was minimal and out of your way, so you can focus on the web page (the reason you're running the browser in the first place).

I think there's room for both. Firefox is pretty popular precisely because of all the things it can do.

In any case, modern TVs suck at doing either of these things. I wouldn't mind which way they go as long as they do one of them.

But you'd be one typo away from being blocked by proxy filters

Consider tablets and desktops versus notebooks and smartphones. Biggest impact is on notebooks whose vertical real estate is at a premium. Second are smartphone because of their form factor. As far as tablets and desktops: You can rotate your tablet and you can use a big monitor (or rotate that too if supported).

Kodos hasn't seen a release since 2006

Have Python regular expressions changed much since then, though? It may be good enough.

I think what the blogger is saying indirectly that is a test that is necessary but not sufficient to qualify a non-technical co-founder. If you ask this as the first question, then it will save you the time for the rest of the questions.

What kind of book? A math book? biography? romance fiction? In that respect, programming is also like cooking. For cooking, you can go from one extreme of food science, like NASA practices for food going up in space, to popping a frozen pizza into the oven, to many points in between. Programming allows a wide range of discipline to be executed in the process.

What might be important which I've observed is that no one of importance seems to read signature disclaimers. Or at least they didn't in my case.

As a grunt programmer while working for one large defense contractor some years ago, I put something similar to the following, embedded in a paragraph of mind-numbing boilerplate and no one up the food chain seemed to notice.

If you are not the intended recipient, you need not do anything. Men in black will come to erase your memory. Have a good day.