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My recollection might be failing me. But I do not remember the level of excitement described in the article for the Original iPhone. I remember it for the next iPhone (3G/2), but n…

ASP has had server-side "Javascript" for years. The magic sauce in Node.js is the combination of async, JS, and package management.

Is the css in the screen shot "good". It seems to really unnecessarily break any sort of distinction between presentation and content. For example what is the practical reason for …

Is it likely that a user has gzip on a system but not tar itself? From the article: What about tooling? OSX: tar -xf some.tar.xz (WORKS!) Linux: tar -xf some.tar.xz (WORKS!) Window…

It is completely fair to distinguish "Internal Reprogrammability" from configurability with respect to Emacs. Emacs is vastly different than most systems that are highly configurab…

I suspect that it varies by environment. I have worked in environments where it is 95% alone and other environments where it is 95% collaboration. Some places actually do "pair pro…

It may cause future problems, but things like Visual Basic with the graphical interface are very easy for a child to understand (or at least me). As the artifacts that you are inte…

I have worked with a couple of systems that used very course grained sharding at the application level. I did not notice these drawbacks. I have not worked with one that did auto s…

In the real world, people did not realize that Google Glass had "a shower moment"