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what's really worrying is that in all this time I've never seen a convincing benchmark, to motivate diving 'head first' into Datomic. For all the hate that the MongoDB guys get, th…

The really stupid trend in laptop (and most portables) design is non-user replaceable batteries!! What can be at most a 10 USD, 30 second affair is now a drive to the service centr…

My paranoia in installing extensions is finally justified. If Amazon is pulling these kind of stunts, then imagine the kind of mischief the smaller apps are pulling off. This whole…

I hope government IT departments take these threats seriously and start updgrading/isolating the still significant numbers of Windows XP systems that have access to critical databa…

I'm sure this is just a weekend hack for folks here, but the presentation really looks chilling. As a side note: is there anyway to participate in Google+ or Facebook without enabl…

I love this about designers - they are so passionate and so convinced about the latest design fad, when in reality the only constant is change. People just like "new" things ... on…

"There's no UI better than one you already know, and no UI worse than one you thought you knew but now haver to relearn." I hope this doesn't become the epithet of Windows 8!

I'm more interested in the HN comments here. Personally, I felt it was an inconsistent, and pretty tame take on an iconic brand (I'm not a fan of the new Windows logo either). Chec…

People just don't seem to be comfortable with grey. And this is a problem I especially see with newer devs: there has to be one right way that fully solves a problem. The balancing…

"Twitter succeeded (as it were) because people used it", and they did because the Twitter API is basically the "Hello World" of using a web service ! This meant ANY platform where …

I'd like to think the essence of a start-up is in the passion of its team to produce something new / fascinating / challenging ... If you want to mainly establish a sustainable bus…

Aside: What a blast from the past .. "Three years ago, a ballistic Bill identified the phone consortium Symbian as enemy number one and this year singled out Nokia for particular a…

I'm just curious as to how just accessing local resources would compromise a live CD environment ..

The best way I've seen to get feedback on such issues is while you type. I just saw the result list, and I'm a bit overwhelmed with the output. I've resorted to writing the draft i…

This has serious legs, martin. Well done :) A similar idea has been in my "would-be-nice" list for eons, but its amazing to see it actually work. Wishing you great success! Happy h…

I don't think apps have a major impact on purchasing factor for the general public. I would imagine that the most important web properties would already have Windows clients. I fee…

"weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience" .. the level of hyperbole .. i worry .. i worry ...

Upvoted for "coding takes very little time" ! Most often, you are making 100s of small but significant decisions of algorithms, runtimes, libraries, memory footprints etc that the …

'de-authenticating' a "machine" can be done just by clearing your cookies ! AFAIK, there's nothing machine specific about the two factor authentication .. It was pretty disappointi…

Try this : https://github.com/balupton/History.js

Try this : https://github.com/balupton/History.js

But I didn't think that he used the terms too loosely. What do you think was lacking/superflous in his arguments ?

Here's something I've observed: i) most successful "RESTful" APIs don't really follow all the REST principles (e.g Flickr, Amazon, Dropbox). My thumb rule is this: If an API does n…