Not a new book; I’m reading The Checklist Manifesto [0]

I’m very impressed by how much is has clarified the importance of identifying repeatable steps for my team and ensuring they are accurately and successfully completed!

I’m looking forward to reading The Infinite Game [1]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-ma... [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38390751-the-infinite-ga...

These 2 look good, will check them out.

I second the other commenter here. I love the way settings are managed in ST2.

While this is true... the significant factor here is that these children are saving.

If there were no saving, the money would have been spent/stolen/taken almost for certain. I can understand the feeling of the boy who saved ₹4000 in 7 months. Given the living standards and challenges these children face, it would have impossible to have even a quarter of that left over in 7 months.

Edit: added the rupee symbol

I'm definitely not saying they shouldn't be saving. The (now deleted) comment I replied to was awed by the high savings rate the kids were getting, 5%. I was just putting it in perspective.

I love the fact the you choose not to 'shove it in your face' wrt the paid options.

My personal belief is that if your users love what you've created, they will adopt it and then be happy to pay for it. In comparison, giving them multiple paid options at sign-up is kind off the wrong idea as your user has not had the chance to experience and understand your product.

Newsblur looks good; am going to give it a good try.

Great point on using shortcuts on web apps. After a while I forget they on the web and start using shortcuts. This support is welcome.

Great app, project page and effort.

How about this?

    {
    "// compiled_property" : "do something special mr. proprietary compiler"
    "compiled_property": "magic"
    }

Its not exactly as you state with the licenses. Most (perhaps _all_) organizations/corporates use Microsoft products and have existing licenses. Acquiring more would not be issue in these environemnts.

If you are a start-up, the right way to do it would by joining the BizSpark [1] program. .Net does provide an excellent development and scaleable environment. This program grants you access to all of its products, including Office, SQL server, Visual Studio and a multitude of other applications/tools. There was a recent post on HN [2] that spoke more to this.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848512

'Some facts (years, dates) are probably wrong in this press release. The reason is that we can't access this information when Wikipedia is blacked out. Because of pressure from our failing competitors. We're sorry for that.'

To me this was the best part of the entire message.

I found it laughable, because of how Wikipedia's blackout is easily circumventable, and because I didn't see a single year or date.

That's how wrong they were. ;)

Wrong morally, or wrong factually?

If factually, then which parts are wrong?

Joking that the dates/years were so wrong that they weren't even there.

Ah thanks, I missed that!

To thats more of a reason to link to have more and more people go to Wikipedia today. Wouldn't change anything by linking here though as most of HN traffic is already aware of this.

The results from the videos are excellent! I am truly impressed. Will try this out during the weekend.