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I highly recommend Robert Greenberg's "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music" if you have any interest in Classical. Available on audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/How-to-L…

1000 times this. You're going to get a lot of snark from people saying things like "don't", or "learn python instead". This epitomizes "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". Ba…

I'm not sure if you'll see this 2 days later, but I've been trying to make heads or tails of your example and I think there’s a mistake in there somewhere. Maybe I'm hopelessly los…

Your code stops compiling with a pretty unhelpful error message. Y'know, like Segmentation Fault 11, and a stack trace into the swift compiler sourcecode if you're lucky. XCode doe…

1000 times this. I've been really enthusiastic about the idea of a modern, compiled, type safe, systems language, backed by a major tech juggernaut. But the compiler crashes and so…

Very cool! I'll be keeping an eye on this. This year I've been experimenting with these DIY self-watering grow containers: http://earthtainer.tomatofest.com/pdfs/EarthTainer-Constr…

Only if it is invested offshore. If it comes back to the US, it will be taxed. Same situation as before.

Sure, but Berkshire is also explicit about the fact that they only acquire pre-existing "remarkable" businesses. They may benefit from the firehose, but were already self-sufficien…

I feel like it’s going to be hard for a company like Spotify to compete on price. Their margins are already thin from what I hear, and they don’t have a hugely profitable hardware …

I get this argument for any other company. But at this point Apple has gone to great lengths to control the entire toolchain from the OS to the compiler to the chips that run the i…

Google search the headline, then click on the first result.

There is a better, longer version of the video here: http://vimeo.com/18913413 He elaborates on collaborating with other people, connecting disperate ideas, and managing creative p…

Good feedback, thanks.

You can hide items and product categories you’ll never eat. I hate eating processed foods, too. Just click the hide buttons next to those categories (Snacks, Canned Foods, et all),…

It's useful (at least for me) even if you only go to one store. We use historical data to judge how good the sales are for items at any given time — and it’s surprising how much va…

He used MS Paint for a long time (seriously). But apparently he's upgraded to something called SmoothDraw3 and a Wacom Bamboo Tablet. http://www.khanacademy.org/about/faq#equipment…