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I found that having kids, and wife accelerated my progress on projects by making the time I did have mater more.

http://alexkessinger.net/2010/06/13/two-kids-in-two-years-be...

I mean, it's a simple mechanics problem right. Have you ever tried to lie down and read to your kid from an iPad, or kindle. It's not easy. Also, kids like to use books hard. Reading to them selves, kicking them around a room.

I don't think it's a market thing, i think it's a how you use them thing.

First off, the premise that because the language has frameworks means that it's bad language is false. Ruby has rails, C has the standard library. You don't rewrite everything from the ground up every time you make a program.

Second, there are a lot of frameworks for so many reasons. One big reason is the each browser has a slightly different DOM implementation. Frameworks just smooth over the differences.

Whoa, JavaScript is so much better then PHP.

Seriously, there needs to be something that shows the way to the future. The people working on the next version of ECMAScript look to languages like CoffeeScript as archetypes of the future.

More then anything CoffeeScript shows us what Javascript might look like someday.

We get to actually try out new idioms and see if they work for us. If they don't we have ample time to voice concerns. This is a huge departure from the past.

If anything CoffeeScript will make Javascript better.

I am half serious. I think that the investment in Reader is just investment in Google+. So, in away they are no longer investing in it. It may not be an active thought, but they are driving away the core audience.

When there traffic starts to dip, and they decide to cut google reader completely. There will be no one left who cares. They will think that no one cared in the first place. They will have forgotten when the destroyed reader for a large number of people.

To drive away the core audience, before they shut down the service. Less noise that way.

I am excited to see all the new feed readers. I think newsblur, or hivemined are in the best positon right now to absorb the google reader audience.

Why did the API never get publicly, and officially released?

How do you watch video from your NAS. Did you setup a DLNA server, or something. That has been hard for me to figure out. Other then that it's been great.

I love it too. After years of harassing wife with different tv add on boxes, plain Linux, apple tv, boxee, I came home to find her just using the thig with no input from my self. She just got it. That is why Google TV is so awesome.

What does it matter that most people can't use RSS. Even if 1% of the internet population uses RSS it's still a useful technology. People can learn how to use these things over time, maybe a long time. The knowledge can be transmitted.

Even in SF it doesn't always cost 2k+ for a 1 bedroom.

Your work is very much appreciated, I really think NewsBlur is the only game in town when it comes to a competitor.

Hopefully clients like reader will begin to notice your stuff as well, and we can develop an ecosystem around NewsBlur.

Yea.

NewsBlur is very cool, and it's a great UI. It hasn't always been around though. They are missing one thing though, the Human Curation part of Google Reader. There is no built in social core. That is a very big piece of what people will miss about Google Reader.

Right, Google Reader won't ever be for the masses. That is exactly why another company can swoop in. Google is a company for the 90%, but 10% is still big enough to make a successful company.

Yea, I am with you. But, like the point I made in the article. What is feedly going to do with the share button? Or, reeder for that matter.

I really think there is a space for someone to do a Google Reader like API, and publicly support it. Google Reader has yet to release an officially support API.

If they were to start as a drop in replacement they could be huge.

What about children books. What about innovative story telling formats. Magazines; old-school wired magazine could really do a number on kindle.

I think that is a good argument. Isn't the main premise of your argument that parents should spend more time with their kids talking.

Like it seems as if TV is being specially berated when it could really be anything that takes time away from interacting with your child that is bad.

In school we studied research that correlated how many of hours of TV a day a person watched, and life expectancy. As many people thought the more tv you watched your life expectancy fell.

When you first hear that it sounds like TV can reduce your years on earth.

When they took a close look though they found a confounding variable; health care.

Those who watched more TV tended to be poorer, and thus had less healthcare. It's possible that the same thing is happening in this group of research as well.

If you are looking for something that is more front-end specific Paul Irish has put together a really great list of blogs, and made a google reader bundle out of them.

http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user/1116587048495144532...

Some standout blogs that I always read about programming are:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/ - Was writing about JS before it was cool, now it just has some of the most detailed coverage you can get of new things happening in js.

http://dailyjs.com/ - a great daily roundup of the news in the JS community

http://www.nczonline.net/ - A developer who lead many FE efforts inside of Yahoo, very outspoken about how JS should work.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ - Joels essays can be a bit cantankerous, but also paradigm changing.

http://sheddingbikes.com/ - pretty much everything that zed shaw does is fucking awesome. Take it with a grain of salt though.

UPDATE:

Oh, I almost forgot steve yegge, http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ - In a few essays from steve my programming world opened into one of ideas, and not just syntax.

As the countless quotes show without an eventual demise Steve Jobs might not have done what he did.

Why not redefine the question as will life extension actually help?

Feels static compared to what the arcade fire did with google.

http://thewildernessdowntown.com/

The web is a new medium, and browsers can be more expressive then pretty viz. Push the boundaries with this stuff don't just do your radio show on camera.

PHP is widely used because of deployment, not because the language is awesome. If you reboot PHP you need to keep the deployment easy as well.

The best part of GA buying Mixpanel is that maybe GA could loose the flash based graphs.

Ex-Yahoo's unite.

While I don't agree that it's good. It is definitely a huge reason why beginners love PHP. For learning how to code you can't beat how easy it is to put PHP on a server.

Also things like, file_get_contents() is stupid simple. It's often abused but you can put anything in that and get something back. Even a URL. Who care's if every once in a while you get a 500, or 404. Most of the time it works just fine.

PHP is going to be really hard to replace. I think your better off looking to graduate PHP developers to something else.

I think it's because it delights two kinds of people. JavaScript lovers, because it make JavaScript beautiful, and JavaScript haters, because it makes JavaScript palatable.

Yea, but there is flash of un-styled content. There is no way around it because the style has to be applied by the javascript. That is not production ready in my opinion. The way standards bodies work now though I think this a great way to demo what browsers should be able to do.