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For those wondering who runs this site / if it's endorsed at all by snowden himself (can't find anything stating such a thing outright yet) - from the bottom of the faq ( https://e…

They'll be sold to someone (stalking horse bidder is Flextronics) within 60 days. See http://blog.wink.com/wink-blog/2015/9/22/wink-corporate-upda...

I've done the pacific starlight from SF to Portland/Seattle a couple times over the years, and while I love the scenic-ness of the train, I felt like the author painted a bit too r…

Oddly, I learned about Gary Kildall a few days ago after reading a wired article about the "Halt and Catch Fire" tv series ( http://www.wired.com/2014/05/halt-and-catch-fire/ ) "Ea…

another option is just keep the assets as SVG's and use a library to do the conversion (ios/osx specifically, I personally use SVGKit - https://github.com/SVGKit/SVGKit )

As referenced at the end of the article, there's a This American Life podcast from a few years ago about the whole thing: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/412…

Are any of the hp Sprout folks from the MS Research 'illumishare' team from a couple years ago? the video reminds me of this demo of kids playing games over skype with a similar sy…

I looked into this a bit, and if I'm guessing correctly, the alloy isn't different than the alloy 'ethergraf' tips that have been in the market since 2010, and saw them as cheap as…

Read iTulip.com / the book "The post-castastrophy economy" I'd argue it was the rise of the FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) economy that grew very rapidly over the past 30 y…

pinboard, usenet, and occasionally small community forums. soon picasa web albums, rhapsody, and a vpn provider. I'll pay for anything that saves me a lot time, has a great interfa…

that's a rough and very large social circle (for me at least). I'd still expect circles or whatever "next-gen" social network to make setting up groups of friends and information c…

Thanks for writing this. I recently started an etherpad server at work, and while it's still going to take some time to gain traction, I figure it's way easier than sharing files o…

I love this post. The problem is that many people (including myself) are not working for (and possibly won't find) managers with this view towards hiring. Many managers hire people…

very cool, thanks! I was using wunderlist until I switched to android, I still feel a need to build a native desktop app for some reason, but this works.

last i checked, you couldn't talk to custom hardware with it. you could do a html5/webkit/nacl installer-based app with appcelerator titanium and then modify things to talk to hard…

Wish i could find it, but there's an HN'er who bootstrapped a business and during the same timeframe met someone and got married, and wrote a nice blog post about it recently. He s…

"Gtk+ isn't as fun as Qt, but being forced to use C++ is plain out painful." just curious, have you considered qt jambi (now open source) or qt4dotnet?

under the rush of hp/webos announcements today was this: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/09/webos-is-coming-to-pcs-later-this-year/ It made me think back to ten years ago, back whe…

I still can't grasp where the market is to buy a tablet on a data plan contract. The problem seems that these hardware-only vendors are trying to extract profit from only their har…

What would stop them from supporting android apps within meego? There's rumors that the RIM playbook is going this route.

Good to know. I know some other companies (e.g. Facebook) use IRC as another way to keep folks communicating. I've been in a position where I've practically been a one-man software…

Derek, you've been a huge inspiration for me, but I remember hearing you say at a conference that your employees started to hate you a while after working remotely -- to the point …

Is it just me, or did anyone else not see anything that makes it stand out from the rest of the android tablets coming out.

this reminded me of an article back in 2004, where an engineer discovered sake can be used to make wood pliable enough to form it into speaker cones: - http://www.boingboing.net/20…