The title could use a little more cowbell from 1984

That would be an excellent use of AI. In my birth country, WhatsApp is synonymous with telecommunications, and people love the convenience of dropping audio messages (to the horror of those like me, who have a life and canâ€(TM)t hear all those audios). Turning that into text would be some great use of AI.

...I'd subscribe in a heartbeat. Tried YouTube Red back then, but could not justify paying more than Netflix just to nix the ads (given I had zero interest in their content).

Didn't run the numbers, but something that would, on average, give content creators the money they'd get if users watched the ads, plus some cut for YouTube should not be expensive, given the massive viewership they need to turn a profit.

Maybe it's a side effect on how TIOBE measures "popularity" by looking at frequency in search engines - surely, that correlates with popularity, but also (IMHO) with complexity, which may have brought our friendly neighbourhood (Assembly) into the spotlight :-D

Another one on the Leave camp. One thing is when someone inadvertently starts to do it (and you may be in a position to give them constructive feedback). Another is when they keep on doing it, and no one on the powers that be realizes. Happened at an otherwise great workplace - at least two other very competent people left, and made it clear on their exit interviews that the person's toxic behaviour (which I just learned to have a term for) was the cause. Since then, the person has been promoted for their "loyalty", no matter how obvious it gets that they get zero things accomplished and cause talent to bleed, so no regrets.

^ That. Pebble does all the things people *actually* do with other super-powered battery-hog smartwatches (notifications, canned replies, a couple apps), but you get what you paid for (in money and charging worries). It doesn't duplicate smartphone functions - instead, it uses the smartphone's GPS, internet access and powerful CPU to do the heavy-lifting - the best apps are often "terminal-style" accessors for the powerful devices we have at our pockets but can't usually reach when wearing gloves, riding a bike or only having a split-second.

Unfortunately not an option anymore, unless Fitbit decides to launch a compatible device - after all, they *also* favor battery time and focus over feature-load. Who knows?

You mean, ReactOS or the Slashdot Beta?

It all goes down to what pleases you (it's *free* time, after all). I, for example, enjoy off-work programming a little bit, but I am very happy to *have programmed* off-work, that is, I love the results, the fact that I have lots of cool babies of my own (or in which I had a role), and I'm willing to spend the extra mile for that. Sue me, your mileage may vary anyway.

How does that relate to who I should hire, or who would hire me? Well, I guess the thing sorts itself out: each team will end up being built around the same types of programmers (off-time coders x non off-time coders, for example). In the medium term, the team "personality" is born, and hiring goes from that point, in my humble experience.

But I can't help noticing the author of the article is quite opinionated, and a few of his opinions cross the boundary between "funny" and "gross". "This Is America, Take Your Unicode Somewhere Else" is a title that shows how well he plays along with anyone that thinks or looks different, so take that in account when reading his blog.

From both the technical and marketplace perspectives, it is clear that Palm had no choice other than pull the plug (although they've mostly put themselves onto that situation). And, as others have said, development of the OS had already stopped years ago. But it doesn't stop one from having a slightly sad feeling of closing a chapter in a digital lifestyle age.

Palm OS is, for me, the icon of the computer-in-your-pocket times. The amazing fact of having a Palm III is that it had roughly the same firepower that the high-end computers of my late childhood (heck, almost the same CPU of an Amiga) - and it was available for me anywhere, anytime.

It is hard to underestimate that, and I feel sad to see it go - even not being an user anymore (yeah, I'll mark this day on my iPhone's calendar. :-P )

As another Brazilian, I have mixed feelings with the deployment of OLPC laptops here. But one thing is for sure: the *research* done by OLPC is something very benefitial for everyone. Just like when men went to the moon: maybe we didn't really need to land on the big piece of cheese ;-), but it allowed the research of several, useful technologies. Some of it happens at OLPC: see the "never-sleeping" WiFi chips, designed for mesh networks, as an example, or the dual-resolution LCD. Even if the $100 laptop never arrives, those technologies will hit the market somehow.