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gt384u··on Visualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart
The use of the infinity symbol seems really confusing. I would think a circle with midnight mapped to the top and noon to the bottom would make for a considerably more natural mapping. I'd find myself confused by the twist in infinity switching up whether clockwise or counter represented the flow of time.
gt384u··on MongoDB 1.8 (stable) released
Why not go ahead and help them? I'm sure they'd be happy to have the assistance. Fork mongo from github at https://github.com/mongodb/mongo . Happy hacking!
gt384u··on Goodbye, MacBook Pro. The New MacBook Air Is That Good.
I have always taken "full-size" in this context to mean that the area of the landing surface on the top of the keys to be the same as on the desktop offerings. That said, there is a bit of cheating in that the height of the top row of keys on the 11" Macbook air is definitely much smaller. Not sure if that's a big deal. The horizontal and vertical distance between key centers seemed comparable to my iMac's keyboard, though.

I remember a number of times being attracted to the ultra-portable Fujitsus and Sonys of the world a few years ago and being totally unable to type effectively on them because the keys were so close together that my fingers kept getting in the way of each other when typing.

gt384u··on Museopen to set classical music "free"
As an amateur violinist, I'm more excited by the access to sheet music provided by this project. I bookmarked the sheet music page with a mind to dust off my violin when I get home from work tonight.
gt384u··on We just launched Folio - A PDF reader for iPad. How can we improve it?
You guys could probably add some export functionality. It feels like a bit of a data sink at the moment.
gt384u··on Will Steve Ballmer show up at the WWDC keynote?
If Ballmer were to show up at a WWDC Keynote, (which I very much doubt) I can think of a better reason than a technically impractical dev tool announcement: integration of Bing services into iPhoneOS. Given the current friction between Google, this would be a huge finger in Google's eye.
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