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The one tip that will really help you to code 10x faster - know when to ask for help.

How odd that HP calls these servers Project Moonshot. A moonshot used to be slang for something with a low probability of success.

In the Seattle area, we have OneBusAway. You can access it from the web, by texting, phone, and via apps for Android,iPhone, and WP7. OneBusAway started as a graduate student proje…

We need to encourage entrepreneurs of all ages who want to start all types of businesses. For example, a friend of ours started a business creating fantastic pastries and desserts …

The economy has become much more dependent on service jobs. We're not very good at increasing the productivity of services jobs yet. How do you increase the productivity of a psych…

When I first started programming, I used the hunt and peck method. Life was tedious. Then I took a class called "One Hour to Touch Type" from the University of Washington's Experim…

The 10th most popular book at the Seattle Public Library is "I Stink!" by Jim and Kate Mcmullan. It's about garbage trucks in NYC and targets children ages 4-8.

Google needs Bing to be moderately successful to avoid an anti-trust lawsuit. Bing is a win for Microsoft either way. If it gets about 30% market share, then Bing makes Microsoft m…

The data doesn't seem to agree with your supposition of runaway state spending. According to the Tax Foundation ( http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/486.html ), state and lo…

I'd like to hear Apple's side of the story. This topic has been all over the Internet today. Is the candidate just trying to get free PR?

We were in Ashland,OR for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival a few years ago. The public radio station repeatedly said they were located in "the mythical state of Jefferson".

Move to Seattle. Washington state has no income tax or capital gains tax.

Too bad they didn't match Linode's offerings. http://www.linode.com/

Medicare, not Social Security, is the primary problem. Social Security's problems can be resolved using a similar adjustment like that done in the 80's. Push out the retirement age…

Fine Homebuilding WoodenBoat I like to keep the back issues. Everything else I either read online or get from the library.

I suggest reading the classic "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Touchstone-book/dp/06712...

Lesson 9: Count on the federal government bailing out the company insuring your credit default swaps. Otherwise, your "investments" will be worthless.

Seattle's Swedish hospital is offering a similar service at their Ballard Campus. http://www.swedish.org/body.cfm?id=2907&oTopID=1050

For some queries, Wolfram Alpha is excellent. As mentioned in other comments, Wolfram's marketing sucks not the search engine. Like all potentially disruptive products, it meets th…

The article says: "To qualify as a small business, the corporation, when the stock is issued, may not have gross assets exceeding $50 million (including the proceeds of the newly i…

Except they forgot to include any numbers. What good is a budget without numbers?

How can we help but go through a slow period while households and banks repair their balance sheets? Just increasing the savings rate from the current 5% in January to a more susta…

Doesn't it seem likely that MS created Silverlight so they could build web based versions of their applications that don't suck? I wouldn't be surprised to see Office 14 really blu…