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what's really worrying is that in all this time I've never seen a convincing benchmark, to motivate diving 'head first' into Datomic. For all the hate that the MongoDB guys get, they alteast piqued interest with some arresting charts and figures.

Right now, the impression I get is, "ooh, because Rich Hickey..."

Could anyone share anecdotes to the counter ?

The really stupid trend in laptop (and most portables) design is non-user replaceable batteries!! What can be at most a 10 USD, 30 second affair is now a drive to the service centre, a two week (if lucky) wait and a 100 USD bill ...

My paranoia in installing extensions is finally justified. If Amazon is pulling these kind of stunts, then imagine the kind of mischief the smaller apps are pulling off.

This whole "scorched earth"-style permissions model that users can't make educated decisions about is what annoys me about current platforms like Chrome, Android and iOS.

JavaME had an interesting model where the app asks permissions after it is installed (e.g. internet access, local file system access) for each thing it wants to do. And the app has to consider the fact that the user can decide not to grant that particular permission. Of course, once you decide to trust the app, you could disable the prompts.

I hope government IT departments take these threats seriously and start updgrading/isolating the still significant numbers of Windows XP systems that have access to critical databases.

I'm sure this is just a weekend hack for folks here, but the presentation really looks chilling.

As a side note: is there anyway to participate in Google+ or Facebook without enabling the location features ?

I love this about designers - they are so passionate and so convinced about the latest design fad, when in reality the only constant is change.

People just like "new" things ... one season its faux leather, another season its gray Helvetica on stark white.

"There's no UI better than one you already know, and no UI worse than one you thought you knew but now haver to relearn."

I hope this doesn't become the epithet of Windows 8!

I'm more interested in the HN comments here. Personally, I felt it was an inconsistent, and pretty tame take on an iconic brand (I'm not a fan of the new Windows logo either).

Check out his HTC 1 concept.. a bit dated but still interesting

People just don't seem to be comfortable with grey. And this is a problem I especially see with newer devs: there has to be one right way that fully solves a problem.

The balancing act between seat-of-the-pants thinking and methodical problem solving is THE key to business survival.

"Twitter succeeded (as it were) because people used it", and they did because the Twitter API is basically the "Hello World" of using a web service !

This meant ANY platform where a developer cared to bring out a Twitter client had it, and hence more people could jump in quickly.

Secondly, really creative users made Twitter what it is today with Retweets and Hashtags.

Twitter would be wise to not start an evaporative cooling effect.

I'd like to think the essence of a start-up is in the passion of its team to produce something new/fascinating/challenging ...

If you want to mainly establish a sustainable business model, just run a traditional service business. There's enough money to be made there.

Aside: What a blast from the past .. "Three years ago, a ballistic Bill identified the phone consortium Symbian as enemy number one and this year singled out Nokia for particular attention" and mentions of handsets like " Siemens S55, Sony Ericsson T68i .. Nokia 7650"

I'm just curious as to how just accessing local resources would compromise a live CD environment ..

The best way I've seen to get feedback on such issues is while you type. I just saw the result list, and I'm a bit overwhelmed with the output.

I've resorted to writing the draft in MS Word where I get basic grammar checks as I write.

This has serious legs, martin. Well done :) A similar idea has been in my "would-be-nice" list for eons, but its amazing to see it actually work.

Wishing you great success! Happy hacking !

I don't think apps have a major impact on purchasing factor for the general public. I would imagine that the most important web properties would already have Windows clients.

I feel the real reason is that the hardware so far has been really bland and nothing catches your attention. The Lumia has a fresh design that could kickstart the 'wow' factor.

"weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience" .. the level of hyperbole .. i worry .. i worry ...

Upvoted for "coding takes very little time" ! Most often, you are making 100s of small but significant decisions of algorithms, runtimes, libraries, memory footprints etc that the actual coding part ends up being the less significant aspect.

Also, I really admire the polite but confident way you responded to eropple's borderline trolling. Good show !

'de-authenticating' a "machine" can be done just by clearing your cookies ! AFAIK, there's nothing machine specific about the two factor authentication ..

It was pretty disappointing for me really .. I would have liked to actually authenticate specific MAC addresses .. but then, I'll take what I've got :)

Try this : https://github.com/balupton/History.js

But I didn't think that he used the terms too loosely. What do you think was lacking/superflous in his arguments ?

Here's something I've observed:

i) most successful "RESTful" APIs don't really follow all the REST principles (e.g Flickr, Amazon, Dropbox). My thumb rule is this: If an API does not start from a "mother" URI that gives you the most updated list of resources that can then be requested by the application, it is not really HATEOAS.

ii) a purely resource-oriented view of your entire API space shoehorns you into doing really strange things to keep REST "purity"

So my conclusion is that using an architecture/concept originally intended for humans navigating hypermedia documents may not be a natural fit for parts of your API that cannot be modeled as such. See the Dropbox REST API documentation (http://www.dropbox.com/developers/docs#api-specification) (" Section: Deviations From Standard REST Style") to see an example of the pragmatic decisions taken.

I recall having an easy time de/serializing XML in C# ... you don't HAVE to get into the syntax business if you don't want to.

And I think the Java also has something analogous in the JAXB library

The first thing to do is to shake of the "feeling" about your product. Don't forget about the fact that you have been able to get customers pay for some value you created.

Secondly, follow "nudge's" advice of picking a niche. No product can be all things to all people.

All the best, and soldier on ..

Why is it so difficult to make a private copy of this spreadsheet ? There are no download links, or an easy way in Google Spreadsheet to copy a document via URL !?!!

Keeping your development machine powered off over the holidays is not really a stretch. Why waste so much power ?

So you're visiting your parents for Thanksgiving, and you get a call "LATCH! there's some issue with the thingamajig that we deployed before you left, urgent fixed required or the universe will ... be okay really; but could you please look into this ? I'll make it worth your while."

The only tool you have at your disposal is your mom's ChromeBox, since you decided to "disconnect" for the holidays.

But no fear ! You log in to a familiar, already configured Orion workspace, debug the shiznit out of the issue, save the day and have well deserved turkey-fueled nap ..

IMHO, REST's "software design on the scale of decades" is a lofty claim that has probably been validated only when the "application" in question is a web browser with a human user consuming hypermedia.

Beautifully written intro that gave me a complete feel for the language. I think that it is a really difficult thing, to communicate that well.

All the best ! I hope Nemerle becomes a fantastic option on the .NET platform. Though, with the speed that Microsoft likes to develop C#, it might most probably end up looking like this.

There are so many updates that I miss from people I care about, and chance upon them much later !

* There doesn't seem to be a way to explicity follow all the updates of a person

* If I manage to get my friends into a group, their updates still don't show up in the group

* The current News Feed algorithm is weighed a little too tightly to the people I interact with often

Hmm .. maybe I should try writing a client with these features ;)