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Makes sense. As more of the population ages, needs technology, lives longer but is also still interested in using technology, catering to this market will be both necessary and use…

Finally I'm glad someone mentioned Scrivener here! Very surprised the article didn't even passingly mention it.

Interesting. Though as mentioned the ratings of shows are largely skewed by time -- ie: because no one was reviewing shows from the 50s-80s at the time of airing, it's all viewed t…

Interesting. A shame he wouldn't identify himself or his company in the piece -- it seems like he's quite successful now, so I don't really get the need for anonymity.

The combination of some very intelligent people with often very poor social skills will give a greater chance of things like this happening... That said, they could be a little mor…

So much of this is doing exactly the things we do now, but with the added "bonus" of not moving physically at all? This will appeal to some people for sure, but I can only imagine …

Every generation says the generation immediately after theirs is the worst generation ever!

Maybe her argument is that she's less technical than the engineers (and therefore looked down upon unnecessarily, leading to this article), even if she has to be far more technical…

Clearly spoken by someone who has no idea about communication at all.

How about it's just an indicator that people always think things are getting worse. Every generation is always nostalgic for the time just before the current generation...

The only thing I don't like about the "Maker Movement" is the way so many talk about themselves as if they were the first people ever to do this sort of thing. Like handmade craft …

Seems like a game, or art project or something of that kind. It doesn't have to be overtly commercial to still be an elaborate ruse, and it's probably more fun if it's not particul…

This is mostly from people mistaking the search box for the address box and just putting in the URL there and not knowing there's an extra step in this that they could avoid.

Well they must be sturdy old things to last that long... the first thing that always goes for me is the keyboard, usually from overuse!

This could be said about nearly all tech news sites. At least HN is a cross-section of sources...

Sounds like it has some similarities to what Automattic does -- http://automattic.com/work-with-us/ -- Though of course being a remote work company Automattic can implement it quit…

Nice. I think the CEO already knew his app sucked, so she didn't have to convince him of that, but obviously she convinced him she was the best person to fix it, and that's great.

They're catching on a fair bit in education -- they're fairly cheap and they do what students need for a lot less than stock standard Windows PCs that got ordered for years. For an…

I agree it's perfectly possible to get somewhere as an entrepreneur without a college degree. But it's hardly detrimental to have one either. And I'm kind of sick of the US-centric…

Interesting. Seems from the link they don't own AllthingsD even though it's very much their thing. I presume they'll be negotiating with another company to start up something new b…

This still seems to ignore the fact that even if the Chinese used these techniques differently and didn't explicitly threaten violence, they were still the captors and the prisoner…