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I'm surprised there's no mention of his first 100 days pledge to "announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership" - something that the EFF has been lobbying for. https:…

Any word on when browsers other than Safari will be supporting push notifications?

This also applies to professional growth. People often have a hard time receiving negative feedback because they experience it as an attack on their identity/ego rather than as an …

This rings true with my experience. I met a senior NHS physician who built a very useful and simple mobile information service to improve access to certain services. My understandi…

Good point. And if you sign up to Coinbase anonymously and acquire BTC reasonably anonymously any data that gets subpoenaed is worthless.

BTC transactions are all public in the blockchain so they're not as anonymous as many think. But as for preventing your identity from being linked to your BTC wallet? There's proba…

Do you want people who bullshit with little or no relevant data or people who will admit when they don't know something and try to figure it out? I'd say the latter. It's frustrati…

A comparable project, the Leisure Suit Larry remake, also had a $500,000 cut-off. It ended up raising over $650,000 so it doesn't look far-fetched. http://www.kickstarter.com/proje…

You're forgetting software sales (ColorSchemer), t-shirt sales and fabric printing.

This point regarding education is interesting: free and open-source software provides teaching opportunities that do not exist with proprietary software, since the background funct…

That judgement looks like it's based on a very brief conversation with one of the founders. Carr seems to dislike his attitude more than anything. Hardly a convincing condemnation …

People who have been working seriously on robotics in recent years probably have a strong sense of what's hard and what's easier.

Because their advertising overpriced? Surely it's easy enough for advertisers to monitor results. Curious why there's this perception.

Riot On - a very entertaining and well produced story of dotcom bubble madness http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/

I'm partial to Hackruiter ( http://www.hackruiter.com ). Recruitment done by engineers for engineers.

That's the big use case right now. A more flexible version of http://www.quickmeme.com - though I'm sure users will come up with other cool uses in the coming months.