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Just curious, is it the kinds of visuals, or...?

Just checking now, vi keys work for diagonals.

a mobile developer workstation with a solid design, 4:3 high-res screen, pointing stick, and great keyboard The lack of something like this is why I'm still using a 7 year old Thin…

I'd like to know how much water this makes in how long. A hair dryer is no 60w bulb, that's for sure.

I have a liberal arts degree, and I've been a residential carpenter for the last 13 years. I guess the money I earn puts me in the middle class. Looking back on that time it's fair…

I think the consensus might be underestimating things like Project Glass and new directions in keyboards (microfluid haptics, perhaps even more radical designs). For example it see…

The writing example isn't that sound. First he asks if you can teach 'good' programming, but then expects 'great' programmers to come of it. Rhetoric like that smells a little fish…

The essay doesn't say when those experienced programmers started learning to code.

And what they mean by "60 hours a week".

Or tool use.

Debt isn't some random accident like getting hit by a car while crossing the street. No, but distressed debt can be.

Does anyone have a number for the size of the consumer distressed debt market? Not getting much luck searching so far.

You make it sound as if people who play by the rules can't have distressed debt. Is that what you mean?

As a user of an x41 'twist', I'm definitely curious about this new wave of tablets. I wonder how they'll compare to something like an x220t though? Will the price point be convinci…

I think she meant New Yorker , so it was funny that she talked about newspapers for most of the article.

I read recently that in medieval England large distributed families (i.e. families with lots of extended cousins in different towns and counties) had important network effects for …

My favorite saying on motivation, which your experience seems to prove is "motivation is acquired, not required".

I like these posts, the presentation is quite good IMO. You see the old game state --> new game state pattern a lot in functionally written games, but something about that has alwa…

In niche MMOs it's not unusual for users to spend over 20 real dollars/month on micro transactions. I don't know what an average multiplier in terms of in-game transactions would b…

Exactly; even though the article mentions the meaning of the graph, it seems to misinterpret it anyway. From my perspective as a residential carpenter I see a continuing decline in…

Text adventures (interactive fiction), and muds for that matter, are alive and well. I've been an active participant in both communities for many years so I feel like I have some p…