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If it was just a case that hardware capacity has reached a point where most of us really don't need to upgrade our computers any more, that would be one thing. But the article also…

http://oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/young.html Gives an interesting alternative to business as a zero sum game. Bob Young, founder of Red Hat: "The challenge is to focus o…

Everyone responding to these stories says that the advertiser did things wrong. If that's the case, what I'd really like to see is a story by someone who's run a successful Faceboo…

I have a Toshiba Equium R630 and it works well. It's small and lightweight, although not quite ultrabook standard, and it feels very well put together. I think this model is EOL no…

I've been teaching myself to code, slowly working through SICP and a few of the Stanford courses. I have a fair grasp of programming's fundamentals, but I'm struggling to make the …

Ah, current sales would make sense. Thanks for pointing it out.

Does anyone else think there's something strange about these figures? There's still more iOS tablets being sold than Android, so how did Android manage to gain market share? Surely…

One site that I think deals with this problem quite well is Metafilter. The comments are full of thoughtful and well reasoned discussions between the readers. Sure, there are probl…

Exeter University is open to the public, although they've just done massive amounts of work on it and I don't know how it's turned out. It might be worth taking another look at you…