Yarnage

>I could care less is acceptable[1] US usage.

Not true. It's incorrect and therefore not acceptable.

I would totally buy a smaller iPad. My wife has an iPad but I ended up going with a Galaxy Tab 8.9 inch because it's the perfect size (the iPad felt a little too big for me). Though the Galaxy Tab kinda sucks.

A very dramatic article with no useful facts or additional information. If Slashdot was "officially dead" then I would have expected something...you know, official...

People said the same-thing about Digg and while its traffic died sharply after the horrible re-design it's still chugging along. If Digg hasn't died then I don't see why Slashdot would.

You COULDN'T case less.

Without push notifications this application is a bit useless, no? Since iOS won't allow it to run in the background to poll at regular intervals (or to simply sit there with an IMAP IDLE) it's really on the user to open the app and check email.

I'm sorry but this is 2012. We've had push email for over a decade (perhaps slightly less than that on mobile phones? not sure of the exact figure). In today's world, not being constantly connected is a big deal.

Looks nice though and I understand that, due to iOS limitations, it's a bit difficult to provide push notifications for certain types of services (as they outline, they really would have to store your credentials server-side to do it); I just don't see the rational here.

Can we stop calling it NoSQL? Cassandra has a SQL now and there are other "NoSQL" databases adopting this and the fact that they didn't use SQL wasn't a huge point with how they worked anyway.

Instead of NoSQL 2.0 how about Key Value stores or Document Stores or something else?

This is akin to saying "PC manufacturers make $200, Microsoft makes $100 and app developers get $5 on each PC. I think some of the wrong people are getting rewarded".

I'm not sure what the point of this entry was.

"Do not buy a single record until April. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally until April. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy until April. Do not buy a DVD in the stores until April. Do not buy a videogame until April. Do not buy a single book or magazine until April."

Fixed that for ya as that is what the website suggests.

I wish the people who started this "movement" actually understood the economics behind what they're doing. It's dumb and won't amount to anything.

Windows 98SE, however, was awesome and a VERY different beast from plain Windows 98. It was an entirely new release and it should really be on the list.

Yeah this article greatly confused me as to what the author was upset about. Was it the Visual Studio extensibility? .Net? Visual Studio itself?

From the context of the article I'm pretty sure the author is upset at the Visual Studio extensibility (and rightfully so) but I'm still confused when he made statements about it driving .Net developers away; I'd imagine less than a quarter of .Net developers actually even THINK about extending any VS functions.

Sometimes I feel like the only person who is NOT a PhoneGap fan. It just has so many oddities (white flash on Android for one) and the apps never seem to work as well as anything native.

Am I missing something? Serious question, not trying to troll.

This is what I plan on doing for the most part; I just want to make sure whatever framework / storage solution I go with can at least scale somewhat should I experience anykind of success.

I'm not looking for nor expecting to create a web application as popular as, say, reddit or anything even a quarter of that; just to make a decision as to the direction to go and then worry about further optimization later.