Just finished Tower Lord, it's the sequel to Blood Song, by Anthony Ryan. Blood Song stands pretty strong all on its own, I'm not even sure if he ever planned for this to become a series. But book two (Tower Lord) makes it quite clear that this is now a Game of Thrones esq series.

Just started Old Mans War last night, haven't gotten far enough into it to form an opinion.

This was a fun app to build, once you login we are using Backbone.js + Marionette.js to handle almost everything. We've built Backbone apps before, but in this one it all came together. I hope people check it out.

This is an interesting play. Normally I'd assume you wouldn't go out and tell everyone, hey I make website X.com and it earns $Y every year during November. Clearly he's concerned about being penalized by Google and is trying to get a link juice boost; would love to see a follow up December 26th with what worked and what didn't.

The Browser Refresh plugin for Sublime Text does a very similar thing, looks like it is only for Chrome, but works of a Mac.

Thank you for the post though, helped me find this other plugin.

So... get short on FB?

That's your choice.

I too find it irritating when other wireframing tools don't have that one thing I am looking for. The ability to easily create your own on the fly sounds interesting.

Handful of questions:

Drawing with a finger/pen on a tablet... will the lines auto-smooth? Is there a scripting language under new elements? Would I be able to combine elements and make a reusable gallery type super element?!

Will my clients have to install something to view my templates? Can I send them a URL or will I have to export an image?

Am I asking too many questions?

We love questions. :)

Lines will be smoothed, similar to how the Bamboo iPad app does it. Our prototype already does that. Does this answer your question?

You'll be able to create custom (even grouped) widgets and store them for easy access (e.g. if they're complicated to draw every time). We also plan to make pentotype even recognize your custom elements.

Clients won't need to install anything because pentotype is web-based. They just can point their browser at a URL and interact with the wireframe and leave comments.

Yes, thank you, when and how much?

Wow. :) We're working as fast as we can. In a few months we want to release an MVP. The pricing will be based on monthly subscriptions, but we haven't decided on a pricing scheme, yet.

So lets go ahead and pass the bill as is, with an amendment that requires us to study the potential affects of the bill at a later time before enacting the bill.

I'm sorry but no thank you. I don't trust you money grubbing ass hats to enact the bill properly; I'm not going to trust you to study the already passed bill properly.

Yup, this is BS. On the other hand, it looks like all this pressure is having (at least a little) effect.

I love how everyone keeps asking where is the compromise from the tech industry. This bill is like someone saying "Hi Bob, this store you have here is great, but sometimes someone comes in and steals one of my products off your shelves and since you can't guarantee me that I will get paid for every one of my products that walks out the door I'm going to have to shut down your store until you can."

But, to answer your question; great job. Did you get the sense that she truly had any idea what would happen if SOPA/PIPA pass as they are written today?

> I love how everyone keeps asking where is the compromise from the tech industry.

Politics lives by the fallacy of middle ground: the compromise is always right, and anyone refusing to compromise is always wrong and can be safely ignored. Put that together with the Overton window (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window), and politics compromises its way towards whatever position it wants. Zeno's Paradox, applied to law.

This analogy is as bad as people who say that piracy is the same as stealing from a shop - in your story, the content producer does get paid for that product, it's Bob the store owner who loses money. You think shops can turn around to their suppliers and say "hey, a few things got stolen so we'd like a refund for them"?

Yes, I find it very frustrating too. My response would probably be "The compromise was the DMCA. Usually when I make a compromise I try to stick by it."

Nice interview!

Nothing like guilty until proven innocent. My favorite part was at the 19 minute mark when he blames the internet for not policing itself.

Their limitations make sense, you just have to look at your own usage and decide if it will work for you. I don't feel like they are hiding anything, I read through their entire site yesterday and it was all there in black and white.

The only concern I do have is how well will actually work? Does it switch seamlessly when I leave the range of my wifi like the site claims. A co-worker signed up and has one on the way, so we will find out soon.

At least they are more upfront about the "unlimited" rules than other carriers like say AT&T. Even Sprint is close to killing off their unlimited plans.

I thought AT&T didn't have "unlimited" plans anymore. At least with my iPhone, the data limit is right there in the plan name, with overages being charged a reasonable amount extra.

Here's a crazy idea for the carriers: if there are limits, don't call your plan "unlimited".