I understand how the service will work, but I still wouldn't want it, even if it was free.

I don't want anybody entering my home without me being there. Camera or no camera. A camera makes it easier to prosecute someone who robbed me, but it doesn't prevent a robbery from happening.
I don't want a wifi-controlled lock on my door. Any lock can be picked, but a wifi lock has the potential to be hacked from someone who is merely within wifi range. If I have a nefarious neighbor, he can spend as much time as necessary on a brute force attack on my door.

While I would expect (or at least hope) a large company like amazon would be certain to quickly patch any known exploits found in such a lock, this is not a guarantee, and considering we are talking about the lock between the world and everything of value that I own, I'm going to be overly cautious about this.

Though I don't own pets, I'm sure for anyone who does, they would be worried about them being accidentally let out.

So, the previous models stop working when a new one is released?

The poll basically allows for people switching or upgrading. What about app developers who might want to own multiple phones to test on?

Seriously, why would I make a purchase decision before knowing the details of the thing I might potentially purchase?

As for the platform, I use either a table or the floor.

On what planet is any of that a "best practice"?

The good news is this trailer strongly implies the series is actually going to be made.

The bad news is, I'm not optimistic about its quality. (Well, the trailer itself did nothing to change my opinion there. I'll see what happens once the episodes are out.)

I'm just feeling nostalgic... I knew a little about programming when I was in school, so I wrote tons of programs on my TI calculator. Basically, in every lesson, when I learned a new math concept, I'd write a little program that could do most of the work for me. This meant that I was learning both math and programming. Naturally, I'd tend to forget a lot of those math concepts after I'd finished writing the program, but that pretty much describes my day job now.

Good point! The TI calculators could be slightly improved, but those would be very minor improvements, mostly centered around a better-quality screen.

I will say, a smartphone app is a great companion. If I had to do some serious calculations, I'd rather have real buttons. But I'd also like to have an equivalent app on my phone for those times when I don't have my calculator with me.

Back when I was in school, tests were done on paper, written with pencil. Is that no longer the case? The reason I ask is: partial credit. If a student did a good job, showing their work, but ultimately got the wrong answer, a teacher could still give credit for the portions that were correct. Is that sort of thing possible on modern tests? (Unfortunately, the article doesn't describe how they work - it just assumes I already know.)

An unnecessary product that no store could keep on the shelves because it sold out too quickly. (Yes, one could argue that they didn't produce enough units, but it's clear that people wanted them.)

When the NES Classic was announced, I decided I was going to buy one. Sure, I could have thrown together some kind of emulator, but this was more like the real thing, with no questions of ROM legality.

After the NES Classic's discontinuation was announced, before it was possible for most people to buy one, I build a RetroPie. Now I have no reason to be excited about the SNES Mini.

Currently, I live in an apartment, with >12 visible WiFi networks. That means my WiFi connections are often quite poor due to overuse of the same frequencies. I can only imagine how poor my reception would become if these 12 WiFi routers were each acting as 2 WiFi hotspots.

Yup, same here. When the NES Classic was announced, I got excited. I knew I could get my own emulator cheaper (I didn't yet know about RetroPi), but would rather go the legal route, and felt it would be nice to support Nintendo for producing something like this.

I gave up on finding one, and threw together a RetroPi. So I can say that Nintendo caused me to build a RetroPi. Had they not made the NES Classic, I wouldn't have been reminded of the fun NES games of my youth, and wouldn't have felt the desire to play them again.

You mean the "write" command?