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This is exciting news. I'll probably end up with one of these as well as a Jolla (the Sailfish phone) in the near future.

Saw this posted by Mikko earlier. It's an interesting ploy, and I'm interested to see what comes of it. Specifically, I want to know whether the media, as it were, is going to be w…

While that's a fair statement, an OS--mobile or otherwise--doesn't really need to be among the top few in terms of adoption to be valuable. Lots of people still use their N900 and …

It's an interesting (read: niche) market, to be sure. It's the same market as someone who might buy 8 raspberry pi boards, or 4 ODroid U2 machines for the purpose of learning about…

> What is not cool about Perl? Perl is my first interpreted language. It has a very special place in my heart, even if it was awkward at first to get used to it coming from a C bac…

>May be a better way is to create a nice atmosphere where women feel welcome and comfortable, having very strict code of conduct in conference and generally us (male engineers) bei…

Is this a limitation of Widgets, or of the status of Widget development, though? It seems to me that there's a LOT of untapped potential when it comes to widgets.

Anecdotal data, admittedly not perfectly analogous. I got serious about playing the game of go relatively late in life for a go player--I was 23 years old at the time. In 2 years o…

...Which they ought to do. Offering the ability to enumerate user accounts is unlikely to be the immediate goal of this utility, but it's an effect nonetheless.

A good portfolio can be created well before one goes into--let alone graduates--college. I understand the graphic design industry to be largely portfolio-driven, and it continues t…

I lean pure CLI as well except on macs, which I use purely to try and maintain compatibility with as many Unixy OS variants as I can.

Just in case anyone isn't aware of the video to which you're referring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYVCk10AzS0

I don't speak Swedish and I'm considering using it out of spite.

Order of installation on new macs: Quicksilver. Brew. Tmux. JewelryBox. Lazy package maintainers have created the perfect atmosphere for a project like rvm to be an essential part …

I think it's probably marginally better than linking the Expect site proper, since it provides decent context.

It's a really useful tool that has a surprisingly small amount of awareness.

Shameless plug: I built a small library to provide more Expect-like features in Ruby, since I didn't care for the interfaces exposed, for application development. Presently works o…

> Facebook's button seems to be perceived as more user-friendly than the unknown button on someone else's site, even if the unfamiliar button was designed to be less hostile than L…

I love my N900! It's on my shelf as a backup phone. Ours aren't all that uncommon in terms of Maemo users' stories, as I understand it.

The parallax effect on the final page was a nice touch. This makes me want to visit Austria (and Vienna in particular) sometime soon.

> Values? You make it sound as if it's ethical values. One could make the point that I mean ethical values. Telcos' ethics are certainly at play here. The values to which I refer c…

I don't think so, personally. Skype just adds yet another factor to work against them.

> Nokia (with Microsoft) make beautiful hardware and Windows Phone is lush, but for some reason is not getting the market love its quality deserves. Two points here: First, it pain…

Indeed. Either that or consider it a rental--because that's all it really is.

> Steam's DRM is reasonable. This has yet to be seen. For a while, Steam was seen as a way to keep other DRM at bay. Bioshock changed that (I'm not aware of 3rd party DRM on steam …