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Portland (OR) comes to mind as a place where there's some fantastic tech people and no university, but I'm not sure if it's considered a startup hub or not.

For somewhere around a year now, we've had an average of one new startup registering with our Venture Services Group each day. I am struggling with the correct way to be pedantic a…

I've noticed a lot of games in the Mac App Store are starting to have a single "unlock full game" IAP. These I really like. The good ones have enough content to show the nature of …

I'm a big fan of Jumpcut ( http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/ ), a dedicated clipboard manager. Several other tools that include clipboard management have been mentioned but if you do…

My wardrobe follows many of these mechanics - jeans, t-shirt, hoodie. In the winter (I live in Waterloo, Ontario) I just add layers. Sometimes more shirts, sometimes long underwear…

I switched about 8 months ago because my employer bought me a BlackBerry (edit to add: Torch 9810). I was quite surprised with how good it is, though my needs for it are pretty lig…

The BB10 devices should run Android apps, but I doubt there will be better Google Apps integration. My guess is that they will feature better MS apps (in part because of the Bing a…

This is a great article. My knee jerk reaction was to be a bit defensive "but native development is a lot of work too!" And it is, great applications require a lot of work regardle…

Sure there's room, but the thesis is that rms' personality does disservice to his cause. He is willing to email documents around to collaborate using Free Software, but he's not wi…

My reading of the Velocity article suggests that Ted donated his million to the University "to expand support for student entrepreneurs". The University, in turn, has established a…

I personally would not be able to convince myself that my side project's execution is /better/ than something MetaLab (or any of the many companies I admire) built, but certainly i…

I wonder if the trade-off of devoting those 10 hours to deliberate practice results in much better use of the other 25-30.

Most standard two-column layouts follow the golden ratio roughly. If you look at, for example, subtraction.com (a good place to steal layout inspiration from) it's 2 columns within…

It certainly was the reason for the outrage over the caps Bell tried to impose. It's not that caps, or usage-based billing is inherently evil, it's just that the caps were very low…

I've read a lot by him, but looking at it again I think it's fairly reasonable to say that this post is written with the assumption that you are up to date with at least some of th…

If you accept that Waterloo is part of the Golden Horseshoe (a possible point of contention, but born and raised here I've always thought it was) then Toronto and Waterloo are simi…

About 18 months ago, my dad left the job he'd been working at for 40 years (not entirely by choice), set up a new shop and has been going strong ever since. That's awesome for me t…

Basically you're supposed to look at their eyes for 5-7 seconds at a go. Then look away but not at their chest (regardless of sex). Flick to something behind and above them, glance…

I absolutely think it's a problem that the vast majority of elementary school teachers are women. I don't think it's inherently terrible to have fields that are dominated by one ge…

Two things for me today! Thank you.

I am pretty strongly affected by the environment that I'm in, so this post really hits home for me, but there's a conflict I can't resolve about always being the worst x in your co…

I strongly suspect jmillikin is taking the piss and the tone may not be being transmitted with the text. It is the same argument as the article itself, reductio ad absurdum.

I had always just assumed that deformation of blood cells as portrayed by computer graphics in shows like CSI or House were arbitrary and 'artistic representations'. But the last 1…

The knowledgable folk will probably benefit from knowing your region and if there is anything regarding IP in your employment contract. Anecdotally, my employment contract has a cl…