I so much feel the same. At the time I was writing Perl, each line made so much sense, as if I was speaking my mother tongue. It was clearly an extension of my brain.
Never had that feeling with any other programming language, and it took me years to eventually let Perl go and try to wrap my head around Python.
How do you plan on controlling fake profiles ?
For instance, if I create a bunch of fake profiles linked to a real profile and I post randomly on some fake profiles, access posts from fake profiles from the others, what could be preventing me from doing this (and keep all the advertising money to myself) ?
For all the reasons mentionned in this thread (interface consistency, performance, ...) hg is far superior to git.
But, as long as git would get the cool tools - namely, gitlab / gitlab-ci - people won't bother looking at hg.
I started a new project with collaborators a month ago, we had to chose git mainly because of gitlab, as it would ease the process of managing consistently our codebase in a visual and simple way, not to mention the continuous integration goodness that comes with gitlab-ci.
There is, to my knowledge, no close equivalent for hg.
I would definitely add "Nudge" by Thaler & Sunstein to the list. It really helps understand how people choices are motivated, thus how to make good design choices.
"Debuggers are not like washing machines where you can throw in your code and some soap, go get some coffee and watch TV, and then 30 minutes later the defect is removed."
IMHO this first sentence shows that the author has a false perception of what should a debugger do.
Above all a debugger is a tool to find bugs in your code, not a box fixing things with magic.
Having used extensively the Perl debugger (while debugging Perl, of course), I hardly see any other way to get shit done : you can put breakpoints in your code, see the value of your variables, and so on... largely more effective than putting print statements on the wild, or calling Data::Dumper.
On the opposite, I work in an office with enormous windows, and people always turn the light on even if the sun is bright and shinning outside. SO DEPRESSING.
Sure bring back old memories, as a former Palm TX user.
I predict that in ten years from now, someone will write something similar concerning gestures in WebOS :)
I don't see how a todo list can match the informational nature of an email. For example I've subscribed to some mailing list like misc from OpenBSD, how can it fit in the system you are describing ?
I don't want to be pessimistic, but given the hardware configuration, what kind of games this will be able to run ? I don't really feel like playing Angry Bird HD on my TV forever.
I have used Opera a few times, and at the time I was using it, there was no support for SOCKS proxies (something standard in other competitors, always cool to set up a poor's man VPN over SSH). By then, it was important for me to have this in my browser, so I dropped Opera and chose Chrome instead.
Nevertheless, I checked the last version and it seems like they implemented SOCKS. Great news, but for now I'll stick to Chrome... BTW, is there any killer feature in Opera ?