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Also, never generalize ;-)

Looked at backbone.js and thought the same thing - overkill for what I needed. I'm always thinking "how will I scale this to portable devices", and one important consideration is c…

I like the 13.2pt font - 12 or 16 would just be too obvious. But 13.2? Now that is security!

For building something that is content management, Django - as others have said - is a good choice. Going forward though, as a veteran C and web programmer I really like node.js. I…

Wow. And I thought groupon turning down 6bil was crazy ... Back in the mid 80s companies would have killed for money like this!

Also I'm curious what it is made from - the atoms have to come from somewhere, right?

Mental note: don't buy Intel chip's with DRM

I sort of like schema validation, but it makes it a pain to add things to your objects later if clients of your API are depending on that (they will break when you add something).

SOAP is really for client side programmers that can't figure out how to do an HTTP request and parse XML all by themselves. Also the sell is that you can use automation tools to ge…

Thanks, I was just thinking about this exact problem and wondering if localStorage would be a good way to handle it. It looks dead simple from your code - just set an attribute wit…

This would be a great way to test out new jails too - when you break a test law, straight to the test jail with you!

Hmmm, I'd assumed it was a source-to-source compiler. Are they thinking of writing a JVM in JavaScript? Can you say slow ? And debugging seems like a nightmare. And if it's not tha…

Yeah that just seems silly. But of course that's the Java way: add layers of abstraction wherever possible. Oh, and a big abstract IDE on top of it all would be really helpful ;-)

This is awesome - I have a 30' sailboat that I don't spend nearly enough time on. I would love to cut free for a while this like this guy! It sure would take a lot of courage. Oh y…