Care to elaborate? I think Amazon does it similarly, so what's so baroque about it?

I agree that the behavior Hysterix provides is a Good Thing, but I'm not convinced that packaging up this behavior into a separate library and open source project is architecturally elegant. Instead, the base-level web services client library should provide this functionality. I'm wary of adding too many modules and too many dependencies to a system.

Nice! It fixes most annoyances of the original Dune II, e.g. you can use your right mouse button to order units to move somewhere, and there is finally a production queue.

Nearly crashed my system by eating up all of the memory (Firefox), runs nice in Chrome though.

It was clumsy, but worked well enough for me. Any idea what library is being used?

This. So very much this.

Thats the typical Oliver Samwer / Rocket Internet style, and thats the culture where those assholes come from. Sad, really, but somehow, this feels very german to me.

I ve worked in IT companies like this in Berlin and people coming from the Samwer school. They have very high ideals, which their skills and resources cannot meet, and their goals can be met early as they are clones piggy backing of the original american company.

When they hit a point like i assume now, where they cannot freeload of the original, and real problems that need real new solutions emerge, that can be solved only with brains, and not brutish force, they implode.

Using the old Platonic concepts of the IDEAL " A copy cannot ever be as good as its original". The Samwers exploited that most of the innovative work could be cloned from Groupon hard early but risky phase, and in Berlin you can hire very cheaply and there is a lophole in the German Intern law.

Dont forget most operations are done in Berlin, this is vital for the whole company.

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The name of said language being "Plankalkül". Which is the best name for a programming language. Ever.

("Plan Calculus" doesn't quite capture it)

What makes you think so? Do you understand German in general?

Nice one, I like it.

Hell yeah! While there are some nice looking Notebooks, PC cases are especially awful. What puzzles me is that this is even true for 300$+ aluminium pc cases specificaly made to please the design-sensitive crowd (e.g. Lian Li). It seems all respectable designers doing computer cases work at Apple. I believe there is a huge market waiting to be served, so: get rich quick! Make beautiful pc cases for a reasonable price so I can finally buy one!

I know what you mean, I have one of Lian Li's "mini fridge" cases because it has a ludicrous number of HD bays. But I also have an Antec p182, and it's frickin awesome: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129... (slightly newer model)

Watched the screencast. First thought when I saw 'SomeClass extends Controller': this will be hard to evolve.

Tapestry 5 has done away with this and does not require interfaces or superclasses anymore in order to avoid breaking the API in future releases, they should have learned from that.