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"we send the characters you have already typed to query our prediction engine" (under 'What information does Telepathwords collect and why?')

The blog post had a lot of errors, and was read by a lot of people. Those errors are the kind that lead to bigotry. It's worth correcting each in turn, carefully and rationally, be…

I'd pay $2 to trial it, and I'd use it while jogging and listening to music. I have no idea whether it'll work out -- twitter timelines tends to be very fragmentary so I don't know…

Nice idea -- I have an iPhone so I can't try it out, but I've been thinking this would be really nice for running or driving. Hope it all goes well for you.

I think you need a Windows Azure account, not a windows box -- I've seen someone using VS Online on Macbook Pro/Chrome, IIRC. (Can't remember where, though.)

Well, there's the cloud version that'll run on your mac; http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Visual-Studio-Online-Monaco/... The video shows how to clone a git repo containing a node.j…

Reminds me of this paper; "The Interactive Nature of Computing: Refuting the Strong Church-Turing Thesis" -- http://cs.brown.edu/people/pw/strong-cct.pdf "The theoretical nature of…

Reminds me of Richard P Gabriel's essay on Habitability (PDF, Page 9, http://dreamsongs.net/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf ) "Habitability is the characteristic of source code that e…

As a Brit, my reaction was one of complete lack of surprise. I wonder if that is widespread, and accounts for the muted reaction. The US operates big, obvious surveillance faciliti…

Nah. We don' use it ourselves but recognise it's 'the American for British.' I guess the equivalent of 'Yanks.'

Developers are often That Guy because they foresee what will happen when they get to writing code; they realise all the thousands of small problems the work is going to throw at th…

Thanks for the follow-up! These are what I was looking for. :) I look forward to your future work.

Best thing I've read all week. Thanks :)

Not a lot of concrete help, here. What am I looking for in a good UX conversation? I would be interested in an article that explains how a good conversation proceeds. Any thought?

Great solution -- by the end, that final 'type' object starts to look good; type.isNumber(4); // true And it'd be easy to add validation versions, too, which might help clarify the…

> All it takes is a seed. A seed of literacy. [citation needed], really. I don't think education was the determining factor in jumpstarting the South Korean economy. South Korea re…

I suspect that just providing digital services to people dying of disease isn't much good, but I think there are some really nice technology projects operating at very cheap and sm…

It's hard for me to see how I'm living in a walled garden here. If there is a Microsoft walled garden, Hacker News is very much outside the wall, isn't it? I'm here, not on MSDN, t…

We're talking languages here; the way a grammar construct helps the programmer. The C# async language effectively writes a whole batch of code that you'd need to write yourself in …

I would dearly love for the C# type system to get a bit stronger and less verbose. It's also confused, I think, because you have explicit classes, anonymous types, and dynamic, and…

Could you point out a few features? Would be interested to know.

C# 4 added serious dynamic typing, so that you can make ruby/pthon/js-style dynamic objects; // properties not declared anywhere; runtime property definitions dynamic myObject = ne…

Anyone care to comment on where we might use such a thing? Is it already in use? And does it compare favourably with BSON?