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I'm not sure why you were getting downvoted because the one thing that stuck out to me, after saying to myself "Huh, I'd love to get one of those to play around with." was that in …

When I read stuff like this I try reeeeal hard to not immediately dismiss it as @hipsterhacker stereotypes, but weird groupthink like this shocks me. Keeping data that is by it's n…

My office also provides VPN phones for remote employees. Plug it into your network, login with your token and you have your full extension, vmail, etc. available anywhere.

I was confused for a moment at the app name as I thought this referred to the excellent CodeBox application[1]; I thought maybe that app had been evolved into a full IDE. [1] http:…

For small things ClickOnce is fine, but it's a pain in the ass to automate. For example, there's no way to synchronize the 'version' of the installer with the version of the EXE it…

Families do exist, you know- even in San Francisco!

For the very overweight this is very likely; running a substantial daily caloric deficit just by eating healthy and drinking water will cause large early losses. This isn't sustain…

It's tough to for any author to reduce the concepts of weight management beyond 'calories in' and 'calories out.' I've been on a weight rollercoaster for the past 10 years, varying…

The code is on GitHub; that would be a great pull request!

A couple of thoughts (including some commentary on the article itself- sorry I couldn't help it). The central idea of this article, which is that slowing DVD sales due to the explo…

In today's deficit boogeyman environment I can't say that extra revenue isn't a consideration, but really the tax was to attempt to stem a runaway financial system that has become …

I've had several Fitbit's and own the Withings scale; love them to pieces. My early Fitbit's broke when I sat down and caught them on the arms of a chair (once at a beer garden, na…

Ah; FYI the API now supports Intraday Time Series fetching. See https://wiki.fitbit.com/display/API/API-Get-Intraday-Time-Se... for more information. You can retrieve data in 1 min…

What data do they hold hostage?

A potential market (evolving and growing because of the ubiquity of cameras and video cameras) has stated what it wants. A company that can deliver solutions to this market can sca…

I don't think these people fancy themselves as journalists.

Wow, that worked incredibly well; thanks for the tip! 1080p videos load extremely quickly now.

U-Verse subscriber here. I have 25Mbps down and I'm glad someone else is noticing this. I first noticed it early of Summer 2012 that 1080p videos were (literally) unplayable; as in…

Cashing out big is a 1 in 50 proposition? Wow! Source?

Did Aristophanes and Shakespeare need to spend $15,000 to $75,000 per year for 4 to 8 years to learn their craft?

My four-month-old rMBP's screen failed last week and now I'm staring at replacing it out-of-pocket, or never using it as a portable machine again and leaving it hooked up to an ext…

VS2010 implemented much of the C++11 feature set, and VS2012 implements almost all of it. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh567368.asp... for a table comparison…

Why is that ironic?

I'm not a Gen Yer, but I must respond that the situation you describe really should be a teachable moment to the younger worker; explain to them why their idea may have been tried …