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jkh123on Quickly – Giving email a mind of its own [video]

So, i a assume the collected Patterns will then be quickly's proprietary knowledge. Right?

jkh123on Betty – English-like interface for the command line

http://www.alicebot.org/aiml.html

jkh123on Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

This! I welcome the step. It is more tha about time to move away from centralized Services. Hope more will follow.

jkh123on Disconnect: open source extension makes the web more private, secure, faster

Using disconnect's proxy? Looks like a trap to me. Give me proof, you discard all the data, then we are talking. Otherwise this approach is mostly flawed.

jkh123on Why Phonebloks Will Never Happen

If I recall correctly the standard MacBook Pro also sports a DVD-slot drive, which may attribute to quite a bit of the added weight and size. However I do agree, that modularity will come at the prize of less miniaturization. And with mobile phones this is even more of an issue.