The only problem I have had with this (on iphone) is that the api they use is throttled (because hackernews will ban ips who use the site too much (see: http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt)
I don't think we'll get to see anything like alien blue until hacker news can return something like json in addition to html.
It really depends on the person and how they use that technology. People like I assume Gibson use tech as a means to an end, he hasn't bought a new app because he is comfortable with what he has and sees no need to try new things.
This is the same reason my mother had a hard time when she bought a new laptop with windows 7 on it, though surprisingly she really likes google chrome and tells everyone on a computer using internet explorer they should use chrome instead.
I guess the gist of what I am saying is that sometimes change can be to much for those who aren't the power user. I loved windows 7 on the RC and all the little improvements, the same with word and office 2007. I get excited about new OS releases and new programs and updates because I find them useful and it doesn't take me hours or weeks or months to become more productive because I live tech but others just don't have the time or desire to understand it.
That seems to be exactly what haskell is suited for solving, math problems. Which is great and wonderful when you are doing math related problems or things that are heavy in math but when you try and go outside those bounds that is when haskell becomes much much harder to write and work with. But alas that is both what makes haskell nice and hard to work with.
Did you ever have your house burgled? It can be quite a lot more upsetting and emotional than just "losing some valuable stuff". It's a violation of your personal living space, some unknown person touched, threw and wrecked your stuff: "had my bedroom violated and invaded and will have to move as I can’t face sleeping in that room any more".
So yes, IMO, that's one of the few perfectly good justifications for getting shitfaced and lashing out at everyone being a cunt because the last thing you want to hear is all the really obvious hindsight "advice" from half the Internet that should bloody mind their own business and that is perfectly fine and acceptable with me. I hope he got it all out of his system.
Heh I actually don't mind that picture and I like the author photos.
I am still on a kindle 2 and if I were going to upgrade it would be to the keyboard 3g without ads but for now as long as my kindle 2 isn't broken and keeps that amazing battery life with 3g off I don't see any reason to upgrade just yet. Now if they cut the price of the kindle keyboard 3g with no ads in half for prime subscribers however I would buy it in an instant.
The scary learning curve isn't really a bad thing, I was never turned off by it, the main turn off for any programming language for me is going to be resources which is why I chose python over ruby (as python has in my opinion much better documentation and community).
As a disclaimer I've never really learned haskell yet, I do go through tutorials and solve some problems with it and everything now and again but I haven't fully grokked the language yet.
Basically in the same boat. Gnome 3 left me with no equivilent to what gnome2 was and now I'm stuck with xfce or an ubuntu LTS/debian until they get upgraded.
