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I think a lot of the sites were dead or dying. I'm Looking forward to seeing the new more open model. I think it could produce some useful Q&A sites.

I was wondering that myself. I have been holding off upgrading my 13" MB for the new line MBP. Now I'm thinking I should just bite the bullet and shell out the extra couple hundred for a 15".

I have been using Chrome more and more since they added extensions.

I'd love to be able to jot down quick notes & sketches. Perhaps Apple think this is more of a business user requirement, and the ipad is more a leisure device.

Plus the stylus would need to be a conductor or carry some sort of a charge to work on the capacitive screen.

I Just cant get past the fact that it doesn't have a front camera for video chat.

Think I might spend my money on a new imac and/or iphone4 this year.

Worked fine for me on chrome and xp

Definitely doesn’t beat the iPhone IMHO, but Google are moving at such lightning fast pace, I'm guessing we might see a Nexus 2 before the end of the year.

Basically Joel is saying that duct tape programmers are pragmatic programmers who’s priority is to get the job done. Now from my experience in the office there are very few non-pragmatic programmers, and even fewer coders who don’t want to get the job done as quick as possible.

So that means that the majority of us are that duct tape programmers right? but these doesn’t fit, So what’s wrong? well I think there are different types duct tape programmer based on there how smart they are, and that only the really smart ones can successfully write systems without a single test. The remaining programmers use tests to ensure what they have done works, and also hasn’t broken something else.

So given the fact that most people work in teams of programmers of varied skill levels, it makes sense to write tests. And while this might slow the 1 or 2 super smart guys on the team, it will aid the rest of the team.

The design looks great, but I had to think to use it, so that’s where it fails. Although it does raise the idea that Google homepage could do with redesign. On that who uses the I'm feeling lucky button? Google probably have some stats saying its really popular, but I reckon its just from people clicking on it by accident.

My radio alarm clock goes off at about 8:30am. The radio slowly soothes me awake, so that I gradually wake over the next 30 mins or so Using this method puts me in a better mood more consistently than when I used to get up immediately and/or earlier. I would love to get up early and work on some personal projects before I went in to work, but my brain just doesn’t start running until about 11am, and I cant figure out how to change this.