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I'm just about to pass my one-year mark as a software developer with Amazon, at Lab126 in Sunnyvale, California. I have never seen any restroom behavior like the sort this article …

While I echo and amplify the disdain that Ronacher had for the code he cited in his article, I note that sarcasm doesn't work well online. There is of course nothing "cute" or "cle…

Forgive the trivial comment, but did anyone else think of the recent controversy about the cleanliness and quality of the Soylent facilities when they read this article?

I'm astounded. Apparently the massive cruft and bloat of VS 2012 weren't enough -- they're actually issuing a VS 2013 that builds on a tool that has long since jumped the shark. I …

My professional focus has always been on desktop coding, with the web being just a hobby. Any web professionals out there want to comment on how Comcast plans on implementing this …

I certainly agree that Woz seemed too weak, like the fat-kid character from a Judd Apatow film (so maybe they wanted Jonah Hill to play the part?). I don't know what Woz was like a…

I must concede that neither my eyes nor my brain is good at processing visual information. The 48fps effect probably flew right over my head, and I struggled to interpret it the be…

I have never been clinically dead, but I have been drunk and I have had dreams. Once when I was very, very drunk, I had the most brilliant idea anyone had ever conceived, or so I b…

I'm 50, I'm a proud software engineer, and I hope to be usefully employed as some sort of software engineer until the day I die. I love what I do. I love the problem solving, the a…

While I'm suspicious of the unsupported, anecdotal assertions in this article, I'm also confused by the author's use of the phrases "water soluble" and "fat soluble." For instance,…

I'm just a humble senior developer in Phoenix, AZ, so my perspective is very limited. But for many years now I have been suspicious of this "talent crunch," of which so many have s…

There seem to be many good observations in this article, but I feel as though the conclusions suffer because of superficiality. The initial thesis that information "wants to be" re…

I wonder if this is somewhat mitigated by Sturgeon's Law: "Ninety percent of everything is crap."

I'm neither pro-Microsoft nor anti-Microsoft, but I must say that your take on this piece seems painfully, almost illogically slanted in favor of Microsoft. >"For Microsoft, having…

Making money in a digital economy will (eventually) be a matter of linking scarce goods to infinite goods. The infinite item in this case was obviously the graphic novel. While phy…

I second this. While Banks may not be the most poetic of authors, his "Culture" series is excellent space opera. I'd enjoy living in this civilization myself. Currently reading his…

If "piracy is preventing the market from establishing a real clearing price for books," doesn't that suggest perhaps the perceived market is illusory, or at least greatly misunders…

Personally, I'm holding off because e-readers are too expensive. I want to read a book in the park, on an airplane, or in the bathroom. However, there's a real possibility that my …

These are considerably more fun than the usual ideas, such as taking back future knowledge of the stock market, real estate trends, sporting events, or lottery numbers.

I appreciate mattheww's viewpoint. I take life very seriously, perhaps because I have only a finite amount of it. I read this site because I'm looking for a certain type of informa…

A different point from this article, but still: how long before someone jailbreaks the iPad?

This might be more practical than a jetpack (assuming there's actually a mission for it), but in terms of cool, it looks like an airborne Segway.

I have to admit that I'm astonished by the Kindle's alleged success also. Apparently "working back from the customer," Mr. Bezos found that people were masochists and needed an inf…

I have to think that this article is a joke for anyone of above-average intelligence who is over the age of 35. How could you look at the economy over the last 9 years and not see …

I haven't seen this film. Did they actually use the word "unobtainium," as the article mentions? If Cameron just tossed up a generic sf discussion term as a name, it really begins …