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Yes, CMU is in the Midwest. Pittsburgh is in the Midwest.

Intel has fallen so far behind over the years. Intel's CEO has a business administration background vs AMD whose CEO has a PhD in electrical engineering from MIT. I suspect that ha…

In developing countries many of the best and brightest leave. Society in those countries finds it harder to advance and improve without talent to drive innovation. In the developed…

Yes, agreed, there are bad stations in Manhattan too, but the nicest ones are in Manhattan, especially on the new Upper East Side extension and 7 line. I've overly simplified why A…

Large U.S. cities are very different from big cities in rest of the developed world. I live in NYC. I've spent a lot of time in places like London, Tokyo, Sydney, etc. London has a…

The author wrote this tongue-in-cheek, but he has a point about the appeal of a low cost of living, family-oriented lifestyle in fly over country. I'm from the Midwest and this sou…

Now that computing has shifted towards mobile, do WIMP UIs even matter? In the mobile space Jobs clearly had the last laugh over Microsoft.

My company recently shifted me from a web developer role into an iOS development role (the whole mobile first thing). However, Android market share is growing fast. Am I investing …

Will Objective C and iOS continue to be desired, high paying skills? Seems like Android is taking over the market.

I'm not a big fan of Windows 8. I do development on my desktop Linux box or Mac laptop. What Linux distro did you have trouble with using 4K? Any idea if Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unico…

It looks like this is only for currency trading at the moment. Do they allow other assets to be traded?