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A big part of this is the timing of the release; video game systems are always big sellers before the holidays. Anyways, the difference in price as well as function makes this a po…

Not only that, but he's a huge supporter of science education for kids. He is a judge at the local Atlanta FIRST Robotics regional.

Facebook succeeded because it's timing was perfect. It was released right about the time when internet officially went mainstream. Drops in high speed internet prices combined with…

I was always under the impression that Dark, Grunge, and Minimal coexisted with each other in this stage.

You can already do this in Chrome. For example, I hit ' to search Wikipedia and hit ; to I'm Feeling Lucky Google. Preferences -> Basics -> Manage (Next to Default Search)

It's strong economy is based on a limited resource that much of the world is shifting away from. And its social policies remain incompatible with many of the major countries of tod…

Why Abu Dhabi? If you're really going for an "international" school, why wouldn't you pick somewhere a bit more stable? If neutrality is key, then I'd choose someplace like Geneva.…

I think even more surprising than that was the hackish way that they put together the telestrator system. Instead of digging into a native iPad application they loaded on a VNC cli…

You are right, I did not make myself clear. I was trying to keep my description as general as possible as to not make it entirely self centered. By "diverse" I mean going beyond so…

I have been reading an unfortunately large amount of articles here on Hacker News seemingly deterring prospective students like myself from entering a university, especially from t…

A lot of this has been done with openFrameworks ( http://openframeworks.cc/ ). It ties together a plethora of open source frameworks including OpenCV with easy to use bindings to i…

Maybe they will get money from developers of the APIs opting into their service. As in, give us $X a month, and we will handle all your embedding needs and get your content out the…

"Apple, which ended its third quarter with $1.2 billion in cash, will use the additional $150 million to invest in its core markets of education and creative content, Anderson said…

I guess we disagree on the definition of art. Those disposable chopsticks still required the search for a satisfactory length, width, smoothness, etc. Not to mention, the label and…

I think dismissing "programming as art" as irrelevant and hurtful to the community is dangerous. Here we have the tools to create a near-infinite amount of almost everything that c…

(ahem) the correct quote is "huge success"

My favorite is "mechanical issue". I use it all the time whenever the build team on my robotics team blames me (i.e., the coder) for an issue on the robot. Build Team: DAVID! The r…

This is cool but... wasn't it launched like three or four months ago?

I'm a little bit confused over what appears to be a mass hysteria about privacy problems for Facebook. I guess I really don't mind if Facebook tells company X that I listen to Mode…

This sounds a lot like the semi-popular college game 1000 Blank White Cards ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Blank_White_Cards )

Make sure she has an interest in programming first. If she does, do NOT start her out on a graphical programming language like squeak/scratch. Future compsci kids have romantic vis…

Thanks for posting this. I was trying to get through ActiveRecord and DataMapper on non-Rails/Merb/Sinatra ruby programs when I arbitrarily went to HackerNews and saw this: a much …

This advice is good or bad depending on the style of your nephew. If he is really exciting about programming, then he most likely has in his head this idea of hacking away at physi…

With HTML 5 browsers should be able to access CPU processing power and other parts of the computer previously available to only native applications. So this is possible.

I think he did an excellent job of this, especially since his target demo are liberal 18-35 year olds who are generally in tune with modern technology. If I was explaining to my Gr…