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Interesting idea. I've been using Django for 10+ years and like all the choices you've made here. Not 100% what I personally prefer but close. And the decisions I differ on I'm cur…

Free Geek is a great organization. Like this guy, I knew very little about Linux or programming before volunteering there. Fast forward five years and I spend all day monkeying wit…

The cost of developing the Windows 3.1 OS in 1992 was $250 million.* Clearly, software development was expensive and difficult. In 1992 could an open-source OS on a shoestring budg…

Presumably this trade-in will be done by people who are thinking, "I'm not crazy about my iPad. I want to try something new." If Microsoft convinces these customers to try Surface …

This is a good point, and the most positive interpretation of Zynga's actions. But I doubt one more competitor in the gaming industry would have a substantial impact on Zynga's lon…

Or at least something . If I were a shareholder, I'd be irate. Maybe Zynga has some grand master plan for Draw Something and whatnot. But as of now, this looks like executives taki…

Something I didn't know: "A very small part of your energy comes from breaking down your muscles — but you can avoid this by doing some resistance training, otherwise known as pump…

Looks like Snow isn't being extradited. Xinhua is the official press agency of the state. Editorial or no, this didn't get posted without the state's nod. https://en.wikipedia.org/…

This is the perfect distillation of everything that is right and hopeful and beautiful about the internet.

Ah yes, I should've included the next sentence: > Wyden repeatedly asked the NSA to estimate the number of Americans whose communications had been incidentally collected, and the a…

Washington Post did revise the story. And yes, they should have issued an explicit correction. But this is still a major story: > Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.),…

/agreed This is one of the most breathtaking biased pieces I've seen in a very long time. This guy really, really doesn't like Google. Or maybe just Larry Page. Edit: By the same w…

/nod

Using something said in the past to embarrass in the present is one thing. It is often justified, like with "mission accomplished" or the "the fundamentals of the economy are stron…

Well, in the specific case of using native selectors (document.querySelector), I'm sold. It's supported very widely: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api-testsuite/level1...…

Nice! Just installed. I love the feature list. The fact that is was easier to install and has a nicer UI than Dropbox was a nice surprise :) Since AeroFS never stores the files, th…

This is different than the NEO X5 or its peers because it's bigger, slower [1], costs the same amount, and you won't actually receive it for six months or a year. It also has a cus…

The state of Oregon at least has programs specifically targeted at you. Basically, you get unemployment money while devoting yourself full-time to building your business. You don't…

Sargun, your point was, I think, why is it that we treat software modding differently than we treat hardware modding? The chorus of "The hardware is hardware, and we can do whateve…

Learning how to predict what stuff will and will not reduce risk is a learned skill. One should not be too hard on oneself while learning it. (The laptop hinges sitting in a box un…

As one American once put it, "The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave." In the United States, over 200 years in, it is still very much so the American experiment . It…

The term has been appropriated. John Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2010/06/iphone_os_too_closed Neven Mrgan: http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/653708588/the-walled-garden

Why do we continue to accept the Apple euphemism that their ecosystem is a "walled garden"? There are much more accurate terms to describe the Apple ecosystem. When governments do …

Now I am as critical as anyone of frivolous public spending, but how in god's name did you get to $50,000 for this? At worst, this took one Friday afternoon of this government empl…