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I've been an Eclipse guy since college (12 years ago) and haven't seen any need to change. I used vim once for a small Ruby project (couple of days) and came away thinking "I don't…

Pew just released a study that showed people are starting to feel that they've lost control of their private data (which they have): http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/11/12/public-pr…

To rule out root causes. If the data showed increases and serotonin, decreases in stress hormones and improved sleep quality and the patient still replies "bad" to the question "Ho…

> Conspicuous consumption isn’t that cool; not too many people drive Ferraris 99.9% sure I saw Sam pulling out of De Anza College at SUS 2014 in a Lotus Elise.

Hmmm... at what point do we start questioning the veracity of those moon landing photos and videos? :)

It is absolutely crazy to think about how NASA got to the moon in freakin' 1969. Ten years ago, we didn't have FB, YouTube, widespread WiFi, flatscreen TVs, smartphones, LTE... Tha…

Or is it that Apple markets products so well that by the time whateveritis hits the shelves, it doesn't seem "weird" anymore?

> I find Evans' analysis of mobile a bit hyperbolic. Spot on. I've been a follower of his for some time now and while he's obviously smart an insightful, he does sometimes veer int…

I wonder to what degree public perception of a company's brand (think HP, Microsoft, Ebay vs Google, Apple) helps or hinders their ability to get a product off the ground. It remin…