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Fedora 15 with the latest updates and official NVIDIA drivers, its been my main environment for the last week with very little problem (especially considering FC15 is still Alpha).…

From a young developers perspective Philly was fun. Lots of events, low living costs for a decent city and tons of web work. I was able to easily freelance with few contacts. A pre…

Nothing has helped me more with Android than a great Java book (Effective Java.) The rest you can read in the official Android docs or rip apart examples if thats your style. So fa…

This years line up and the fact I am now close enough to attend have me feverishly checking email all day. Thanks for the update!

I like basic editors so on a Mac TextMate and Linux gEdit. For quick Java and C tests and all Android work I use Eclipse which is available on all major platforms of course. Intell…

Now companies can stop opening an American "office" just to sell apps on Android and other like hacks such as Paypal in app unlocking.

Smoothing and proper metrics were default in 9.04+ and before that accessible via a GUI interface for manual tweaking. Replacing FreeSans with a well tailored family is just finish…

I hear ya, but these things are just as important. Poor user experience is a bug and graphical tweaks and updating the indicator platform was much needed. I will admit windicators,…

Hands down the best file syncing and backup experience. I use it on my Ubuntu netbook and laptop, iMac, Macbook Pro, a Windows 7 VM on occasion and my Android. Sometimes there are …

How about those who can't afford it? It's also truly a personal and private choice. I don't judge you because you are insane about getting shot up, thats your choice. Mine is to qu…

Similar deal here. Went for two years, got a full time job and I couldn't get student loans big enough to cover the other two. Were the classes and connections worth the price even…

My first instinct (after taxes) would be to take a year off and build something worth 10x that. Then do it again.

Apple too with Game Center but it doesn't look like they are taking it as seriously

I'd say your private property would have reasonable expectation of privacy. Provided your car was parked on private property this would be called trespassing should you enforce and…

In 2.2 and higher there is an integrated crash reporter into the system. For 2.1 and lower I have a crude catch all error handler that sends the cause of the crash, app and os vers…

I must be the only one who absolutely loves Android, its fragmentation, its stupid little quirks and the fact its written in Java. Then again I am not a traditional software engine…

2.1 users should check out Edwin. It does a lot of this stuff, it's free and its made by a HN reader.