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Re:JavaScript: It’s Not Just for Browsers Any More on Friday March 05, 2010 @04:55PM (#1170596)
When writing code for both client and server, it's difficult to mentally "switch". E.g. after writing some code in client, I'm starting placing curly braces in python's code :)

It would be nice to write both client and server in one language.

Re:Turn Your Body Into Your I/O with Skinput on Thursday March 04, 2010 @01:06PM (#1167552)
Probably you want a chord wearable keyboard like this: http://www.handykey.com/

(needs some training to type).

Re:Women refuse to go through airport body scanners on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @04:43PM (#1165272)
Almost nobody likes Big Brother (even if it supposedly doing something for our own good).
Re:The Chinese Room Argument on Saturday February 20, 2010 @05:26PM (#1139609)
In my opinion, this argument have existential consequences: either it's not possible to emulate mind on turing machine or we don't have qualia and consciousness (it's just the illusion, that we have). And i don't like the latter.
Re:The Internet? Bah (1995) on Saturday February 20, 2010 @05:32AM (#1138894)
Internet is already influencing governments to some extent. Rally in Moldova last year (which become a riot) was organized mostly with Twitter and Facebook.
Re:The Internet? Bah (1995) on Saturday February 20, 2010 @04:41AM (#1138866)
It took me 9 seconds to find the date of the Battle of Trafalgar vs 15 minutes in 1995. Moore's law for information search?