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Nice book, covers all the fundamentals well. Thanks to the authors for this gesture. Now a digression, while Meteor hasn't hit 1.0 yet, I still wish it had some form of MVVM suppor…

DabbleDB was a very forward thinking product, pity it was shutdown. Could you share an estimate of the number of man-hours it took to build it?

I was hoping that it wouldn't kill grub but unfortunately it's just like before. My kubuntu partition lies idly as I haven't bothered re-installing grub yet.

Windows 8 only makes sense on tablet/laptop hybrids. I think you'll feel differently about the usability of the system once you get to try it out on newer devices that are coming o…

WinRT development is actually quite pleasant. You can put together a decent app in very little time using just html and javascript. Deciding what to do with the large screen real e…

In case ammmir decides takes you up on your offer, I'd advise him to ensure that a contract is in place before committing to do any work.

Never say never. If someone had told me that i'd be able to buy a high-end(processor and brand) tablet for $200, I would've laughed in their face.

Depends on the person. For most people, having a 10" screen will suffice, because they use the computer mostly to browse the internet and only occasionally need the full capabiliti…

Android is open source, but that isn't reason enough to rip off someone else's UI. Atleast Microsoft's innovating and not just copying stuff wholesale(which admittedly it used to d…

I think they just wanted to get some excitement going, and it looks like they've met that goal.

The editor is a former communist and the editorials reflect his pro-CPM views, but on the whole, the articles are mostly neutral and reported in a matter of fact way.

The truth is that most of Indian dailies are not fit for reading any science related news or even news for that matter. With the exception of "The Hindu", which is the only daily I…

With Smalltalk you can have your cake and eat it too! Its refactoring and IDE support is better than those of other dynamic languages and only slightly lagging behind statically ty…

I think you meant effect.

Are you being sarcastic?

From a couple of presentations I watched and reading online, nodejs advertises that it makes writing web servers easy. Do everyday programmers actually need node or is it meant to …

Or one could simply use a ready made blog-platform like Wordpress which supports a majority of the features listed and maybe modify it a little > Allow signup/signin Check. > Allow…

Well, in most cases they want a real good reason to switch and the software must market itself as a replacement. Case in point Firefox and Chrome gained a lot IE6 users by 1.Having…

Your points are valid, but I think the percentage of inexperienced Windows users far outnumbers the users with 'expertise'. Those type of people 1. Do appreciate applications that …

> I don't think this is true of anyone, even Warren Buffett or Bill Gates. I meant that as a figure of speech of course :) > It's really difficult to let someone get away with stea…

Exactly. They have a Harvard education, more riches than they could spend in a lifetime and still all they want to do with their lives is act like money-grubbing losers.