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Wow. This just crystallised a bunch of thoughts bumping around in my head, on why this argument goes around and around all the time. Thank you! This was a great comment.

Wow, first PC laptop I'd actually buy.

Buying for Amnesia. Don't want to play Psychonauts (didn't enjoy it the first time), and I own all the rest. And I own all the music, too. ... Wow.

This happened to me. T-Mobile Galaxy S, Samsung and T-Mo dropping the ball on updates, the GPS, etc., etc.. I have an iPhone 4S now, after trying out a Nokia N9, and I've never bee…

Charlie Stross brought this idea up on his blog recently; what does a post work-for-pay world look like? What would you do if you had a home, food, and health care as a basic right…

I'd use this. Does it work with node.js?

Well, Postgres can shine here if you can do a fair amount of processing inside of a stored procedure. The sproc takes care of lifting, the client can be (fairly) limited in the tra…

As an owner of an N9, this makes me kind of sad. I wrote a longer comment on another thread, but what this really makes me feel is that, instead of utilising a great design paired …

Please pass on my remarks to the design team - I'm very impressed with their work, and I do wish that they continue their excellent designs. I truly wish that Nokia had gone behind…

MeeGo Harmattan isn't as polished as iOS - it's got a lot of first-generation performance issues, definitely requires some babysitting to keep it running well, but it's miles ahead…

This is why I bought the N9. It's damn slick, in every one of these facets. Though, syncing is still a major pain point.

Given I'm writing a talk about Twisted and event loops for KiwiPycon, this is super useful. Thanks!

That is a surprisingly clever and evil hack.

I use an Android as the carrier I was on in Canada (Wind), like T-Mo, doesn't get the iPhone, and Android was the best smartphone available. That said, I'm not a big fan of the pho…

Yes, but I'm in the process of moving off google-hosted things, so I'll need to figure out a new topology for this...

Interestingly, I find having that low-level access to be more restrictive. Suddenly, a thing that I just want to work (in this case, the music player) requires that I think about h…

My favourite font for coding, that which I use everywhere I can, is monofur. Reading it is like visual candy. It also looks really good on Linux - the AA seems to work out quite we…

Personally, I much prefer glossy screens, both the glass-covered screen on my Macbook Pro as well as the polished LCD on my old Aspire netbook. In general, the higher contrast and …

Interesting article - I really liked the updated example at the very end, demonstrating a new pattern (for me) for handling exceptions that get thrown by wrapping the DB inserts in…

OOh, that does sound like fun. I've been toying with how to write a grammar generator on Node.js, lately - something in the vein of PyParsing.

I think I cheated and used an existing regex library - it's been a while. As far as the 6 months, it was my first major, major project and required so much learning and research on…

I wrote a parser and lexer by hand. Building the mental abstractions to figure out how a syntax tree should be constructed and walked was amazing. It gave me the tools to visualize…

That was mean. I had hope, for just a moment..

Spyware what? I like it for the single point where all my games are, so I don't have to remember where I downloaded to, or where the keys are in my inbox, or even where I put insta…

Hopefully there'll be a steam key. Braid, Machinarium and Osmos I already have, but the bundle is worth it for Revenge of the Titans, that looks like so much fun