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Yes, the story may be written in a slightly sensationalistic way to go along with current sentiment, but that's how most news, from all verticals and from most news sources from TV…

Being such an influential product for the "tech scene" (I've never really seen its benefit over visiting only a couple of blogs, they all cross-link anyway, but I digress), surely …

But surely there'd be less of an incentive to move to the US if you're already successful? Surely the main reason to go to the States is to start and grow, not live there for alrea…

For me, it's not only the fact they're just dismissing the community which got them to where they are today, but that the statement just felt wrong . It's contradictory - they want…

I'm sorry? Oil isn't used to make electricity Oil is used in some types of power station, and the markets are already reacting to not only the increased demand, but due to the infr…

Mid-2009 Core2Duo laptop (Dell Studio 15), occasionally hooked up to a 19" external monitor with an aspect ratio deliberately different to that of the laptop. Also have Ubuntu on a…

http://woordplay.com I came up with an idea to test how people read words, and whether they can interpret meaning and quickly extract letters and form other words, then wrapped it …

Some gems don't function correctly with Ruby 1.9.1, and a lot have minor issues with Rails 3. Although sometimes it's more an issue with the documentation as opposed to code issues…

Nice concept - not only as a bit of fun, but as visual feedback as to what types of photos your followers prefer to see from you.

I don't visit TM, mainly because I follow a large swathe of tech publications on Twitter, and that's how I get my breaking tech stories - so have no real need for aggregation on st…

Fair point, and I suppose that IMaaS is going to have a good profit margin, but the sheer numbers of people I know who have bought a BlackBerry handset because of BBM probably woul…

Hmm, whilst I welcome the move, I think it's a poor decision by RIM to do it. Seeing as most of my email is handled by Google Apps, the only real draw (and because of friends and f…

Everyone learns in different ways, there are lots of people who are "viewers", who learn by watching others do something and there are also those who learn by reading about a topic…

I know it's a short, light-hearted video, but that's what I imagine the YC interview to be like for some reason. Probing questions, asked politely and framed in a way to see what y…

Didn't know anything about R until seeing this post, downloaded the Windows binary and within the hour I was producing graphs. Much easier to get into than MatLab (used it at uni, …

Microsoft has one of the largest and most comprehensive suites of test hardware available. They have rooms with hundreds of computers with varying levels of hardware performance th…

I was put off by having to get my forms notarized, not because it's particularly difficult, but it seems to be a completely unnecessary hurdle. After being dispirited by RIMs proce…

Are you paying more? From a user perspective, they're explicitly being charged the same for the content. We can't view it completely from our developers perspective, because the av…

From Apple's press release: Publishers who use Apple’s subscription service in their app can also leverage other methods for acquiring digital subscribers outside of the app. For e…

Just about to launch a new web-based game, but am based in the UK so wont be able to make it out. Great idea for finding new companies - will vote up any that I like the look of!

So because some apps abuse the system, we all have to suffer writing lots of extra code? In one of my apps, I request read/write access and then allow the user to select whether th…

They're getting: a) the founding team, b) a "vanity" acquisition which looks good to shareholders and c) the beginnings of a new social graph - imagine pairing their great content …

Jason, I respect you and your work ethic, am a massive fan of TWiST and have been a Jason Nation subscriber for a long time. BUT, personally I don't believe this HR ethic will work…

That's exactly my approach. I spent a month on a project not really getting anywhere, putting things off and moving things 2/3 pixels in CSS code doing "work". I then bought a whit…