I looked at Runbox. Their offering does not satisfy my requirement "where price is not per account but per domain with unlimited or large number of accounts".
What they have is a main account with lots of aliases, but each separate user account, which they call "subaccount" is extra pay.
I have asked a similar question, and was pointed to your response here. From what I see at Migadu's site, it is a good service. Currently the top of my list, but the research is ongoing
Do you mean web apps? Today they are powerful, but in 2008 browsers based web apps could not have access to a lot of things native apps could, I think, so native was inevitable, hence the AppStore.
Thanks. I am trying to see if this kind of thing is of general interest. The parser is in Python running on Google App Engine and unfortunately GAE has a very outdated version of lxml, which is limiting. If there is enough interest, I'll move to AWS EC2, deploy all the latest libraries and improve the code :)
My wife is a founder and a programmer. I help her all I can, as a hacker. Watching it from up close I am more pessimistic about quick leveling of the playing field near term.
Yet here is what we can do that pg did not mention. I shall tech my daughters. Thank you code.org.
Unlike me most of the crowd here don't have kids yet, I guess. But day will come and you will. Half will be girls. They'll see you from up close. They will hear your battle stories. There will be no better role model than you.
Yes one generation is a lot in internet years. But status quo never changes quickly. At least we can personally can see to it that it does change
My biggest problem with 10x is that it commonly misunderstood. The mythical man month (MMM) book explained, an average developer is 3x the worst. the best is 3x an average. So the dynamic range is 9x, but it isn't a math so who cares. And if you are an normal developer with a friend who 3x faster, it is a career guy in a company you would not touch with a long stick, that makes you average and your friend 10xer.
This misunderstanding makes people say 10xers are rare. They are not. People who are 10x better than you are rare.
I am not that person. I am an average guy. I meet devs 3x my inferior, and 3x my superior. So I do think 10x range that MMM talks about is possible.
My second problem with the article is unit of measurement question.
It is very clear what it is. A time to completion of a well defined task by an individual developer, with predetermined level of quality of the result.
The problem is in the measurement. To measure you have to waste resources giving same task to many. And quality measurements are imprecise.
MMM book was all about the time to completion. Obviously nobody counts lines of code. Why even bringing it up?
While I think 9x range is possible, I have never seen it in real life medium size teams. (I am a short term projects freelancer, so I see two companies a year over last 18 years) The reason being, my theory goes, a contextual one. Start-ups ship buggy code fast. A fab automation company might test a released code for a year before shipping. I believe it isn't the issue of A players hiring A players and B players hiring C players. It's just the goals differ. I was faster than most at a certain client of mine, but my code was less reliable. That was fine for a specific task I was hired for, but not for most what they do.
My third problem is that the article tries to fight the notion of importance of hiring 10xers. In many cases individual performance meters less. Imperfectly studied as it might be, 10x performance measurability beats other metrics of what makes a good developer, and a good employee. How do you measure ability to communicate, motivational power, leadership, and plain good taste? So for established companies 10x hiring is not as critical.
And yet, I can clearly see why start-ups are focused on 10xers (ninjas etc). In start-ups individual devs have more autonomy, by design. Winner-takes-most aspect requires short time to market. Delivery times matter much more then quality. That being the case, hiring an obnoxious jerk who codes like hell makes clear if perhaps a temporary benefit.
So if you agree that for a startup time to market is a key, and individual developer relative importance is high, a logical conclusion is makes sense to search for (and overpay) the best. Just like it makes sense to fire 10xers once startup gets traction and replace with normally paid, normally performing guys that function great as a team.
Request: RSS feed to return "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" HTTP header set to * to enable all sources, for both GET and OPTIONS requests.
Details: To read HN more conveniently both on desktops and on iPad I would like to have fewer headings per page, have them in larger font etc, I am writing my own, magazine like (or Flipboard like) HTML viewer. I don't want the data from HN to travel via my server, fetching it directly from the browser.
However fetching RSS from the client side, at least on Chrome, and going forward on any modern browser, would require obtaining permission from the Cross Domain site.
Currently RSS returns none. Chrome reports error, will not allow JavaScript code to process. For the development purposes I fake it via proxy (Fiddler2) but once coded it would either require RSS returning the right header, or me channeling this request via my server (Google App Engine)
Since the point of having RSS is to publish it to other services, I presume you would not object to such use of your data. If you do, please let me know and I'll stop.
I plant to make HTML/JS/CSS open sourced once it is done.