This is exactly what I'm doing with my own product, I'm not launching it. I'm improving it, batch after batch, till it's good enough for people to come to me, and maybe the press as well, if lucky.
Peak seems to be good enough for most of us and Keon for our kids, most likely. I don't even care if it's out of stock or has errors buying it, what I care about is what does it _feel_ to use a Firefox OS. Can it compete with Android / iOS? Does it have potential to ever becoming a competing OS?
I believe I was not around then. I started when the shared hosting was a really popular thing with fixed bandwidth and even that could of easily survived HN. So, I'm kind of amazed on why some sites can't handle that in 2013.
I would really, sincerely, love to reply with my opinion on this, what seems by the title at least, wonderful article. But unfortunately people do not seem to have decent enough of a hosting provider and/or server to survive the outcome of getting on the front page of HN and hence I am forced to see "Error establishing a database connection".
Just like everybody else said, Google is not moving against the open web. Rather the opposite. The only thing I agree with is the part where Google tries to get everybody to use Google only, which makes sense considering Google can be compared to a small empire. I mean, has anyone seen the office buildings that Google has?
As for Chrome, I think Webkit (or now Blink) is where web happens fastest. All new web experiments are done with -webkit, not -moz-, and you gotta go where the majority goes. In this case anyway. I haven't used gmail for a long time tho', because I didn't like that the content of my emails get used for ads - so I set up my own email server for personal usage. Other then that, maps, search .. it does what I need it to do so whether it tracks me or whatever is just the cost of the service.
#laravel-offtopic on Freenode is full of awesome (and intelligent) people.
It's an offtopic chat for the Laravel PHP framework, however the offtopic can contain a variety of languages - usually we talk pretty much everything, from Python to Go, C++ to CSS (and weird life, or rather the no-life related topics). As far as trolls go, I personally haven't seen any yet.