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> The right way to fix the imbalance is to increase the supply of white onions. In the real world, farmers would begin switching to white onions and the supply would increase. I th…

Maybe not, but Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley, and the other institutions offering courses via Coursera grant degrees. From the update: State law prohibits degree-granting instituti…

"The response was tremendous, running more than 14,000 comments and garnering the attention of Spotify, which gave him six months of free membersion and a 13-hour playlist that cov…

I agree that it would have been nicer to see that issue addressed head-on. I think Karim is conflating the words unscripted and unprepared. From what I understand, Khan keeps the v…

Yeah, since iOS4, any app can run in the background for 10 minutes. Certain apps may be approved to run in the background longer. It's covered in the iOS App Programming Guide. Her…

The official dashboard is http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html and has been updated fairly often - maybe once a month or so - since ICS released. According to t…

It's been a while since I looked at the Clojure source, but from what I recall, the initialization problem is almost wholly related to loading all of clojure.core, not garbage coll…

In my experience, the best way to test Android is on device(s). You're going to want to test on device anyway, and it's very easy to do, so just skip the emulator. Keep in mind tha…

There are much better mechanisms for dealing with harassment than a conference organizer. It doesn't sound like she had any problems handling the advances at the bar. To wit, " I t…

Doesn't everyone by definition have the same risk of death? It's risk of death over a specified period: "The participants were followed until the date they died or Dec. 31, 2008, w…

I'd guess that on average, men work more hours per year than women with the same jobs, because women tend to give birth and take care of children more than men. I can't help but wo…

Marco's "what will be different in 6 months?" question gave me a chuckle when you consider that native development for the iPhone is only about 3.5 years old and the rapid pace of …

You are forgetting about existing phones upgrading. Admittedly, it can be a long process for the hardware vendors to certify ICS for their phones, but 6 months is probably a reason…

The hardware acceleration opt-in is just one line in the AndroidManifest.xml file, so it should be widely adopted.

I think hasanove is talking about destroyallsoftware.com, which is a pay site, but it's hard to tell from the landing page. I also think it's the response (i.e., railscasts.com/pro…

Hi, Laurent. I don't use CCW much, though I do have it installed. Mostly I hack Clojure in Emacs. Nevertheless, I sent a few bucks your way because I think it's a great thing to be…

One of the things that Reto Meier talked about at Google I/O this year is building apps that are "Psychic," e.g., using things like Contacts on the phone to make the user experienc…

I don't understand why anyone would call the XOOM heavy in comparison to the iPad. The comparisons I have seen list them both at 730g. I have them both, and I would say that the XO…

I love my iPad, but I think memory is a pretty big deal, especially if you want to do real multitasking. The numbers might not matter to the average consumer, but the experience wi…

He's recommending to read/watch SICP and do the examples, which are in Scheme. I think it's good advice to have a Scheme REPL to follow along so that you don't have to worry about …

Probably the biggest two features are the dual core processor and the front and rear facing cameras (5 MP camera, 720p HD video capture). Reportedly the memory is upgradable as wel…

A short synopsis is that Clojure 1.2 works out of the box, but startup time is poor. According to the author of the REPL app, this is due to bootstrapping the Clojure runtime, spec…

The final paragraph resonates with me. Of all the reasons I have ever considered for finding a more enjoyable but potentially less gainful way to make a dollar, the idea that my fo…

Yeah, it's a portable keyboard layout in autohotkey. Here's the link (you can get to it from colemak.com): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkl/files/Standalone%20Layou...