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zapf··on The Go Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Alan Donovan
No Kindle edition? :-(
zapf··on David Cameron: We want your private keys
I just hope he is not reelected.

I wonder if Gordon Brown would have tried to pass such legislations.

zapf··on An incomplete guide to Facebook thrift
Good to see this.

I was sold on Thrift but I think the popularity of REST made people take some weird decisions.

Internal services talking to each other using REST seemed like a bit too much, a place, where I though services like Thrift would have worked so well.

zapf··on Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation
Absolutely agree. It is called 'artistic freedom' after all. Right?
zapf··on I No Longer Need StackOverflow
Maybe we should run an experiment. Block SO from our routers/browsers (whatever works) and then see how we feel coding without SO. The time frame for this block should at least be a week.

I have a feeling we'd feel better about reading the proper documentations as opposed to trying out random answers from SO.

zapf··on Angry young Indians: What a waste
No way man.

If your daddy doesn't have money you can't get no education.

If your daddy doesn't have money you can't enough vitamins to get the brain or the proteins to get the muscles to work properly.

If your daddy doesn't have money you can't even shit with dignity.

Without a middle class or a rich daddy, you are basically screwed.

When 37% of Indians live below poverty line. I dunno how you think skill and nutrition levels are increasing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India#Poverty_estima...

To get India going, we need to do all the the article is saying - spend on food, health and eduction. But I would add the state needs to do that, private sector will just screw the poor further - no deliberately, but shit happens.

Being optimistic is just that, optimistic.

zapf··on Why virtual worlds died
Nothing new here.
zapf··on IITian quits Hollywood to design lab in suitcase
Your man is gonna make some serious money.

1. Clearly he is politicly connected. You don't get govt funding in India without being connected to some member of parliament or another.

2. And he knows some serious science.

3. Is clearly an entrepreneur.

Well done him.

zapf··on I Don't Want Your Fucking App
Love your man's way of putting the point across.

Never seen the point being made so fucking clearly. ;)

zapf··on India’s missed call culture
There's also the catch in the US system.

When you hear the message saying 'blah blah, leave a message after the tone'. Those seconds are charged to the caller.

Add up all those millions of seconds and the networks are rolling.

We all know what to do when the person is not there. I don't need to hear a 15 second message telling me yet again what to do.

zapf··on Gmail and Contacts get better with Google+
Am scared of the potential surprises that'll come along.

I shared a google map (you know those created your maps things) and I didn't realise that it showed up on my g+.

All I thought was, wtf. I shared it from google maps and didn't have any intention of whatever circles it went to, to know about it.

Super confusing and worrying.

zapf··on Google Circles and Path 2.0: How good UI design cannot fix a broken solution
You are right.

The beauty is that most real world users won't give a damn that not just friends and family, but the state would know where I went for a run as well - if they so wanted to know.

Scares me. So thumbs up for them users, but it ain't for me.

zapf··on Google Circles and Path 2.0: How good UI design cannot fix a broken solution
OK. UI is great. But whats the app doing?

Telling you it is your own journal and allowing occasional sharing? So a personal blog that works from your smart phone and thus lets you do stuff that Wordpress won't?

I like it, I must say. But why would users use it? Self gratification? What is their business model? A la four square? Will they eventually have checkins and deals?

zapf··on The problem isn’t you. The problem is the problem.
We are facing something of the situation.

There is a problem in the product and we find ourselves questioning our ability, motivation and everything else.

Thanks for the post

zapf··on UI Design Considerations for Web Apps
Don't make me think! - http://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html Still as relevant as ever
zapf··on EveryJS: The Right Tool for the Right Job
Well said. Looking forward to the page developing further. Would be cool to be able to search the list etc.

Thanks for the page though, it is very clear and tells me how much I have been missing on whats been happening in the 'js scene'

zapf··on EveryJS: The Right Tool for the Right Job
Why are you using sproutcore for a static plain ol html page? There is no need to use much js on such a page, is there? And then you are ending up breaking the page on old browsers. Whats the point? Are you using the right tools for the right job?
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