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+1 What's the point in saving money when it gets eroded by near 0% interest saving returns combined with continuing inflation?

There's several good Clojure books. I'd start with Rich Hickey's video "Simple made Easy": http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy The "Joy of Clojure" is the best book…

You need to learn Clojure. I would bet since you've been a developer for 23 years you've probably tried Clojure already - especially since it's popular among the Java/JVM crowd. He…

Adding to your comment, here's a link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/50025913/HP039s_Autonomy_Fiasco_Look_... There's no doubt that Marc is a success in the software & VC space - how much…

awesome! this will let us save tons of money by not forcing us to invest in solar, wind or other sustainable sources of energy! DRILL BABY DRILL!

Why? You'll use up your 4G data plan in 97 seconds. At least with 3G it would take a day or so to blow past your monthly data limit. In all seriousness - yes, this is an issue, but…

OMFG. Total, complete lack of understanding of Apple. I'm no fanboi of either iOS or Android (I actually have several of both). "News accounts this week suggested that Google was c…

The docs are pretty good, and the wiki is a wealth of information. where exactly are you looking?

You must be joking. I've built several projects, for pay, using Titanium and find it to be very powerful and fast for building even complex mobile apps. The customers have been thr…

This is a quote from Jeff's response: "To be crystal clear here, our intentions are that we will not charge for development that happens under the “App Explore” product (i.e., the …

They don't. I've used Appcelerator for a number of projects that are now on the App store(s) and haven't ever worried about this. The source code is on Github under the Apache lice…

These developers hit a wall quickly, and have to work harder (or just write poorly thought-out/designed code) over time. That does not mean they are less capable than classicly tra…

They could have AT LEAST gone with USB3. I mean really, it's 2012 and you release 'the most advanced phone ever' and it's running technology that's 10 years old. It's not as if bet…

What Leo Apotheker did to HP in his short tenure is borderline criminal. If I owned HP stock or were an employee I would be livid - but it's not totally his fault - it is also the …

I've asked this question before to folks who I know use ClojureScript. The answer is: you don't need a framework like Backbonejs if you're using ClojureScript. Why? The ability to …

IMO there's too much uncertainty over WebOS. There's no real deployment of these devices (dwarfed by even Windows Phone at this point), the helter-skelter handling of killing it an…

...or go watch this video. It's a pretty decent (and balanced) overview of the dev options out there: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Cross-Platform-Mobile

i'd be happy to google hangout with you to help ya'll. ping me on twitter at 'prpatel'

What? You make no sense. In your original article you advocate going native for now and eschewing Web tech. Now you say that "you're golden" if you use Web tech? Then you top it of…

I'm not sure about RubyMotion, but I can speak to Titanium as we use it to build our TripLingo language learning apps. Appcelerator Titanium does not compile down to anything - rat…

With the deluge of hardware Kickstarter projects, I'd be surprised if some of them don't have positions for EE's. * btw - i love that hardware hacking is getting popular again

No. I think Scala is a fine language, with lots of neat features. But it does not give the developer enough of a leap - someone has already mentioned a parallel between C -> C++ an…

good grief... just learn some fscking JavaScript already! It's not _that_ hard!

I'm not sure how I feel about this. From one point of view, I think this is an awesome idea, get energetic, smart students down the entrepreneurship path early. Then my experience …

HAH, crazy. I remember fondly over the last 15 years the 15 times that Linux was about to take over the desktop. It's more likely WebOS is going to win any race with Windows.