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Am I the only one that prefers Holo to KitKat/Kennedy? Kennedy seems a closer to iOS than Holo was, so I expect this to make cross-platform themeing easier for app makers, but I'm …

I just tried out the f.lux for Philips Hue feature and it is highly impractical because it arbitrarily adjusts the brightness of all Hue lights in your house... Disclaimer: I'm the…

Shameless self promotion: I'm the creator of an Android app for the Hue called LampShade.io that also supports this (and a ton of other features!)

Shameless self promotion: I'm the creator of an Android app for the Hue called LampShade.io that also supports this (and a ton of other features!)

Shameless self promotion: I'm the creator of an Android app for the Hue called LampShade.io that also supports this (and a ton of other features!)

Six months ago I created an Android app to control the Philips Hue smarthome lighting system with little thought given to the name at that time. Since then, the app has grown signi…

Why not assign something like http://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1 as homework instead?

Battery replacements are around 10k/decade[1]. Quite a bit less than the 30k/decade estimated petrol specific costs provided by the author. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Mo…

Is this just about being able to reuse components beyond the original use case, or also being able to split the product and let hackers drop in existing Arduinos we have laying aro…

Unfortunate side effect of decreasing the barriers to (e)book publishing?

Despite the problems Google had initially shipping physical products over Play/Wallet, I suspect this will be more polished. The showroom they have for the Google Fiberhood appeare…

I grew up around the energy industry and spent my childhood focused on engineering and history. I was converted through my high-school's strong computer science program. Next I pic…

I just got a 16GB model after hitting refresh on and off for the past hour

why aren't they taking pre-orders and/or back-orders?

engineers solve problems too

Yes. Google 'Mud Pulse Telemetry' Low bit rate as in < 30 bits per second (As of when I interned for a major oil services company this past summer)

the Nback Progress page doesn't appear to be working

was App Inventor ahead of it's time? In my experiences using App Inventor I found it, like Scratch, useful for rapid prototyping of simple apps and games. The problem was that it d…

one of the biggest reasons Apple would switch to ARM for laptop-like products is to reduce their dependence on Intel's effective monopoly!

Intel has an effective monopoly on x86 high end mobile chips, and those chips are now provided graphics and require Intel motherboard(southbridge) chips as well. Intel is also in t…

This rumor was first addressed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2519858

The transition would occur in 2014 or later. By that point in time we will have quad core 64-bit ARM A15's or better. x86 will have have lasted 8+ years at Apple, which I think is …

Apple has significant motivation to ditch x86 now that Intel has an effective monopoly in high end x86 chips. Intel's fab process is 2+ years ahead of the fabs used AMD and ARM com…

Keep in mind Microsoft is also working on porting Windows to ARM. Ideally there would be some form of Windows 8 able to run on the new Mac's by the time the architecture transition…