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I for one am actually excited for this. (Price tag is admittedly still high.) When I look at a piece of technology I want to know what problem is it solving. And for me it will sol…

Another +1 for Divvy. I have a hard time living without it. When plugged into my large monitor, I have hotkeys set up to put a window on the left 1/3, the middle 1/3, and the right…

Firstly, congratulations! Changing from a well-known situation to a completely new one. It must be a little bit scary because everything will be unfamiliar. And that's OK. You're g…

So cool a space to be celebrating their 10yr.

I hate the trend in cars that there are no or few physical buttons. Tactile feedback is still important. It is so unsafe to take one's eyes off of the road. At least give me some f…

The redesign really feels like it really will translate well to mobile, as in the Facebook Phone. Instead of a grid of apps, you have a strip of categories of information (feeds, e…

But at least with music interfaces the levels are quite different. As a long-time user of music UI, pianos tend to have glossy white and black keys, knobs may have shading, there m…

I disagree on hiding the inactive segments though. I like the blank segments being still present, but because that is my opinion and not because usability was the goal. :) I could …

Maybe funds support the RubyGems maintainers and the gem authors?

TL;DR Always work hard, keep your eyes open, and be helpful. On the point of luck, yes there is a whole lot of lucky circumstance which you have no control over that puts in you in…

It's all about who you know. Go to parties and meetups all of the time, then go to work where all the other talented people work. Rinse & repeat for best results.

Why must an engineer not be socially inclined? Must curiosity and social aptitude be mutually exclusive? My experience with developer-type leaders and sales-type leaders really bre…

Two words: transit overlays.

I really like the fact that jQuery's AJAX methods were converted to support this.

I grew up in Silicon Valley in the 80s and I was not one of the fortunate---anything more than $5 was crazy expensive. But having a way to access the technology definitely changed …