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Okay, I admit it, I'm not enlightened. Will somebody please Explain Like I'm 5?

This is probably my favorite article I've read on here all year. User experience is so important and so hard and so iterative (and requires so many new sets of eyeballs) that far t…

They announced the iPhone months in advance of its availability. Even the iPod was announced three weeks in advance of its availability date.

I think in this case "biggest swing for the house" should be interpreted as "biggest edge in favor of the house," not anything to do with variance. Everyone knows the house always …

That's why you build a personal brand while you're riding the coattails of a popular game. See Day9, who plays whatever game he feels like playing on his scheduled "day off" and st…

No it isn't. The deal was announced today, the linked article is from six days ago. Speculation and rumors are not the same thing as a done deal.

I have no faith that a Snow Crash movie would live up to the novel, as much as I want it to exist anyway. A series would be better, especially one with a planned ending.

This is a brand recognition play, and LotR has huge (general audience) brand recognition.

I found the Runelords series by David Farland really enjoyable and cinematic. Great exploration of a fascinating magic system, with some very memorable characters to boot. For Sci …

Hopefully they're incentivized to pour a huge budget into these given the "competition" of the movies (and GoT) and they make it worth the Prime subscription. (Personally Prime has…

"Van Gogh used a type of red pigment that gradually faded over time. That suggests the painting looks slightly different today than when it was completed." There's something kind o…

I have more of a general aversion to the actions of the (Core) people who support SegWit, including false promises, censorship, and other shenanigans like the 2x trojan horse which…

There was a spate of articles calling Bitcoin forks "dividends" and other such nonsense which I'm sure a lot of people bought into.

Yep. In September Business Insider reported a 91% correlation between the price of Bitcoin and searches for Bitcoin on Google: http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-correlat…

The Segwit2x effort began in May with a simple purpose: to increase the blocksize and improve Bitcoin scalability. At the time, the Bitcoin community was in crisis after nearly 3 y…

I don't understand this desire to immediately assume bad faith in these situations. It's a complicated situation, involving a lot of actors. Yeah, probably some of them are acting …

Thankfully 50,000 likes on Facebook is cheaper than the object at the store. (Only somewhat kidding. Don't buy your kids Facebook Likes.)

I never understood why you would ever write-protect a floppy. Then again, I had a Mac 512k with a single floppy drive. (Insert Disk A; CRANK WHIRR GRIND SPIT; Insert Disk B; WHIRR …

As I understand it, Apple committed to X years of the lightning port to certain MFi vendors, which (if true) is just another checkmark in the "why have ports" column.

Best theme music ever? Maybe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAkL2-vh2Sk

Gargoyles.

Because the FCC needs their help to defeat Net Neutrality! Jokes aside, no, I can't recall actually ever feeling a ghostly presence -- how many people here have?