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My ultimate goal is apps for education which makes using a $100 piece of dirt Chromebook, which I'm typing on now, an attractive machine to use. I can develop w

My ultimate goal is apps for education which makes using a $100 piece of dirt Chromebook, which I'm typing on now, an attractive machine to use. I can develop with it using the Cloud9 cloud based IDE. It's not that bad if I connected to a TV for extra screen real estate. A month ago I learned something very important. The mouse cursor stopped showing, so the machine doesn't have a mouse or tack pad. Now I have to tab through web pages which have limited my usage to Hacker News, Google Music, and Netflix which accounts for 90% of the usage before it broke. I can't use it to bank or pay my bills, wikipedia, or Facebook. It really does make me as a web developer ask the question how can I make this better and make more of my products more accessible.

candiodari 9y ago
$100 piece of dirt chromebook + cloud services = $100 + $600 per year to actually use it. Why not use a $200 secondhand lenovo that can actually run programs and give them a real system ? When I was very small I actually got an intro to programming class on mainframe. You could only work while connected. It was horrible, since you could only do exactly what the teacher said, there was essentially no cpu capacity available (and if multiple 7 year olds who've never seen a program run before complained about it, it's bad). It was beyond worthless. Stop the walled garden, especially for programmers.
- thanatropism 9y ago
  My Samsung Chromebook is featherlight, lighter than my iPad. So it has replaced it as a PDF reader. An iPad-priced Chromebook with cell network support would be a dream purchase.
  - candiodari 9y ago
    Something that can't store a PDF library locally just wouldn't cut it for me. I travel too much and internet just isn't guaranteed.
pjmlp 9y ago
> It really does make me as a web developer ask the question how can I make this better and make more of my products more accessible. Follow the Web original design HTML + CSS, limiting the actual use of JavaScript, which is why I am a big supporter of Web 1.0 style with MVC backends.

candiodari 9y ago

$100 piece of dirt chromebook + cloud services = $100 + $600 per year to actually use it. Why not use a $200 secondhand lenovo that can actually run programs and give them a real system ? When I was very small I actually got an intro to programming class on mainframe. You could only work while connected. It was horrible, since you could only do exactly what the teacher said, there was essentially no cpu capacity available (and if multiple 7 year olds who've never seen a program run before complained about it, it's bad). It was beyond worthless. Stop the walled garden, especially for programmers.

thanatropism 9y ago
My Samsung Chromebook is featherlight, lighter than my iPad. So it has replaced it as a PDF reader. An iPad-priced Chromebook with cell network support would be a dream purchase.
- candiodari 9y ago
  Something that can't store a PDF library locally just wouldn't cut it for me. I travel too much and internet just isn't guaranteed.

pjmlp 9y ago

> It really does make me as a web developer ask the question how can I make this better and make more of my products more accessible. Follow the Web original design HTML + CSS, limiting the actual use of JavaScript, which is why I am a big supporter of Web 1.0 style with MVC backends.