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I've had good success in contacting Amazon's customer service when a product is mis-represented or of poor quality. Are they blowing it these days?

It _is_ possible to adapt Jackson (with minimal effort) to use Ion, since it's very similar to Jackson's native JSON format.

Hear, hear! Posted it as I've been raving about ion (particularly s-exp support) to non-amazonians, but credit goes all to them. It's particularly interesting to see the fixes and …

At least in Seattle they do ask to get the bags back, although it's not enforced (we once got a number of dry ice freeze packs as well). The packs are also cold-keeping, so I wonde…

I've read recently the book that the article references - Why Humans like Junk food - and it's a fascinating read - despite being poorly written. Putting theories behind food appre…

Nit-picking but: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms74... Raw sockets in Windows (I've used them a couple of years back...)

The application looks good with interesting articles at the time of writing. As a note though, I opened the link because I thought it was related to Monocle magazine ( http://monoc…

Starting by congratulating Tesla in their system, which should win some converts, but there's something bothering me with it. An automobile network that's also owning their "refuel…

The point about prioritizing clearing road-blocks for your team cannot be underestimated, but, in my experience, with a serious caveat: - Unless your SURE you have the time, do not…

I think that can be easily generalized to: "It's best to be pragmatic rather than dogmatic."

Don't forget cork handbags and shoe soles, I've seen them in quite a few fashion collections this year : ( http://www.corkdesign.com.pt/corkdesign.php )

Cork allows some contact of the wine with oxygen, allowing it to evolve over the years. For wines that lose their primary characteristic when aged (think fruity, fresh wines, norma…

Throwing my 2 cents into the bucket: I'm involved in a small embedded device project, where we wanted our UI to be completely decoupled from a legacy, very heavy, single-threaded c…

I agree with you to a point, but would maintain that a significant amount of behavioural and cultural data coming from the "5 button" research, would also apply to touchscreen devi…

>>> Nokia's software was good and competent, but they simply don't have access to the mountains of UX data needed to develop the next generation of OS's to compete on the touch scr…

Yes, they showed it on the demo it seems.

Not panning this, but isn't this Mythical Man-Month's observation? That the communication overhead increase in adding team members grows -exponentially- quadratically with the numb…

Yes... it's not very hard to reverse engineer. I'm not questioning the advantage (in my view it's a small roadblock if you're motivated enough to actually get the data) just statin…

There's a couple of regulations for selling GPS enabled devices in China (I am a software guy on a major PND manufacturer with products being sold in China). - The map data is scra…