These are the kind of "ideas" that get people to waste a lot of time and VC money, so I invite the author to either put his money where his mouth is or accept t

These are the kind of "ideas" that get people to waste a lot of time and VC money, so I invite the author to either put his money where his mouth is or accept the existing solutions in spite of his minor look-and-feel/nostalgia gripes. I'm sure even in 2012 some of his "$50 ideas" (or no, he said he'd spend $1000 potentially!) could be solved with the existing solutions and a little tweaking. I know for a fact gmail has a reduced loading mode that is snappier and lighter weight. > Is there no configuration of the bits in memory of a present day computer that is this compiler? If you really think so, you should try to prove it, because that would be an interesting result. I'd again invite the author to "try" and recreate a human mind in computer memory - surely "some combination of bits exist" for it, and attempting to do so "would be an interesting result!" etc etc What this basically reads as is a bunch of "here are some simple things that can be reinvented by oneself, but I'm lazy so someone make new services here so I can come in and comment about how I was just thinking I needed one and that I'll 'check it out' and..." For the time that's passed between this article's writing and now surely he could have just hired a hacker with that "$/month" he'd otherwise spend to set up a configuration that better suits his whim (likely from existing tools, userscript tweaks, settings/labs/etc) and pocket the difference.