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Convergence devices have a long history. I read in Steward Brand's 1988 book, The Media Lab, about devices that would converge, collect the functions of our small electronics. Xero…

I was one of those boys who bought a TRS-80. The thing is, I don't remember it as a peer accepted pursuit for me either. This was before anyone noticed, let alone Hollywood recast …

I think this is a "stages of moral development(1)" thing. In post-conventional levels of development, all tools would be valued for their strengths. We wouldn't denigrate a tool fo…

Yeah, I had a Cherokee and knew that the road out from my house flooded every 3 or 4 years. When if finally did ... the police got there first and blockaded it. I had to drive arou…

As a guy with a chem degree, I prefer Metric in the lab, and Imperial (US) in the kitchen or workshop. It isn't really that hard to shift gears/units for your task. Even better is …

Went camping this week. Left my Prius behind, took my girlfriend's 4x4 up the forest service road to the campground ... found 3 Prius there ahead of me. We need less car than we th…

I enjoyed this review from 2012, but in 2014 we are past a 2013 "MOOC backlash" and live in an era where lines are well drawn. There are still some educators committed to true dist…

I always considered it a mild anti-theft measure. "Hey, that's my ..." [meaning sticker combos should be pseudo unique]

I personally (redundantly) am an android/linux user, but I perceive that iPhone and iPad are accepted in rich and powerful circles, and are precisely the market for an IBM effort. …

thank you, noted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

You know, companies with the size and wealth of MS sometimes employ people just to have them NOT innovating elsewhere. Consider 18K smart people freed of that as the bright side.

While I defend "disruption" as a thing, that happens sometimes, I don't think this is it. What Apple and IBM have really done is join an ongoing movement, something that has been g…

Should karma be an ephemeral thing? Should it age off in a week or so? There could be a downside to the early entrants benefit. Sure, you can explore new territory and carve out a …

Are there too many bad questions? Why not the Google answer, which is that search brings you "good" no matter how much "bad" there is?

The striking thing for me was to Google a few questions in a row, to find good answers on SO, and then to see that each one was also closed/rejected for some reason. It was strange…

Curious on the "hybrid progeny have wildly different/non-uniform offspring." I bought some "Big Thai Hybrid" chilies because that's what the store had (rather than just regular Tha…

As logfromblammo notes, this is a very old thing. Perhaps as old as agriculture itself. That said, I see nothing wrong with the branding, as an education and promotion drive. If it…

In many older parts of California you can rent an apartment over a garage. Great system. Revenue for the home owner, good environment for the renter, distributed rentals. Of course…

1. We have a currency without government! 2. We were robbed, and will now contact the government.

I am not a nutritionist or a biochemist, but as a guy with an old BS Chem and a general knowledge, it does not surprise me to hear (again) that we are not all bomb calorimeters. We…

If you believe in technological plateaus ... it's possible that ReactOS has all the time in the world.

I have a related suspicion ... that Google made the deal in part because they believe Lenovo will run Motorola well, with goals compatible to Google and Android. I don't think Goog…

Once, as a relative UNIX newbie, I "cleaned up" a Sun box, until I had moved things I needed for boot off the boot partition. I got it all back, manually mounting partitions, and e…

But don't most people here, at HN, want that right to decide their own openness? I mean, does everyone here plan to do a web startup and then produce a tarball of [their] full work…