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For all these 'bubble' cities (Vancouver, S.F., Seattle, London, ...), I wonder if the bubble ever pops? Are there examples of the prices/avg. income getting so far out of whack th…

While I completely agree, since it will never happen, why not strip javascript out of a browser (FF?), come up with a new catchy name, and market it as a safe browser. Just need a …

Great article. Funny and knowledgeable. I know it's impossible but many of the comments here make it look like they didn't read the article. I guess if we followed 'best practices'…

So caching. Doesn't the db do that? And as much as I hate to say it, are the added complexities (webserver caches) better than the even more traditional approach - throw hardware a…

Zeek, I've been lucky enough to have benefitted from Sqlalchemy and Mako (but it's been awhile). Thanks. This article looked like it was going to hit the sweet spot of stuff I'm cu…

Are there any plans for a coffeescript/python implementation of Dart? Could that be done as a preprocessor? As trivial as that sounds, that is part of what has hindered its adoptio…

So widgy could by used with Pyramid via sqlalchemy?

Would this allow python to be run in the browser (by going through Emscripten and asm.js)? Is that a goal that makes sense?

Couldn't hard copies be outsourced to No Starch if a set amount was donated? I'd much rather buy a book - and would make a higher/set donation.

This point needs to be stressed more. Not so much that it is 'open' but that you can write an app and it will run everywhere: Mobile, WEB and DESKTOP. If there are good solutions f…

From a non-expert, but avid observer, this looks like where things are going. I support Mozilla, but wonder if this is a Hail-Mary pass, with something like Dart and Web components…

I would like to see the adoption, if not formally at least informally, of a javascript ux toolkit. This toolkit would work across platforms - mobile, web, desktop. Ideally it would…