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I upgraded to the Nexus 4 after owning a Galaxy Nexus and I have to say I feel mixed about the changes. As an Android device, the N4 is definitely faster and nicer to use. But as a…

If the board doesn't meet your requirements, then don't use it. The MinnowBoard is part of an ecosystem of boards that offer different feature sets at different prices. One differe…

Project member here. I was disappointed with the way the PCWorld article described it as an "open source PC". MinnowBoard is really an open hardware embedded platform. If you're lo…

Project member here. The hardware design files will be released in about a week.

EPIC is a reputable organization, and have filed a federal lawsuit to help stop this practice. I just sent them a donation, and encourage others to do the same.

When I moved to Portland, OR I was amazed with how social the tech community is here. Informal coding gatherings spring up regularly throughout the city, and there are two reliable…

Google has a lot more at stake than just profits from this particular phone. They are interested in establishing the Android platform as a major player on smart phone devices, and …

Drat. If the earlier rumors I had heard were true (unlocked phone for $199), I was thinking they were committing to a smart strategy to decimate Nokia and their N900 phone. Guess t…

I know for this particular example the problem is tightly related to California's state budget problems, but the astronomical increase in the cost of a college education over the p…

I live in Portland, and bikes are huge here. The most common complaint I've heard about electric bicycles is that they enable new, relatively unskilled riders to wreak havoc in hea…

This article raises the question of how to balance one's life as a technologist or someone immersed in technology. I thought I'd share one tip of something I do. I only own a prepa…

Same here - I waste a lot of time with the internet, including watching some TV online. It's said that alcoholics and drug addicts have a clear path to getting clean - completely c…

I was surprised by the difference in obesity rates between the US and Canada. Both have similar eating time values, and I generally consider them culturally and economically pretty…

I'm a big fan of the podcasts at zencast.org. Particularly those by Gil Fronsdal. He is a Vipassana teacher and gives talks in a very humble, down to earth manner.

As a somewhat heavy guy (230 lbs), I've found that some of the knockoff office chairs you can get cheaply ($100 or less) from Staples/Office Max/etc can fail in the pneumatic lift …

If you liked this article you'll probably also enjoy this interview with Reid on the VentureVoice podcast: http://www.venturevoice.com/2006/11/vv_show_40_reid_hoffman_... Man I mis…

Working for justice can also involve accepting compromises along the way to one's goal.

This still seems pretty counter-intuitive to me. I would think that large businesses would be preferred over smaller ones in a down economy, because clients/customers would be worr…

Thanks for sharing and being open about all the problems you encountered. Launching an application is definitely not easy, nothing takes as long as you hope it will (even if you pa…

You'd think after seeing this thing day after day the video taper would want to pick up a tripod?

I'm an avid cyclist and I can sunburn easily if I don't use sunblock. I would say that surfers are more likely to burn (and do so more quickly) simply because beaches don't have mu…

You need to have something really compelling - a product that really excites people and/or a high liklihood of success in the near future. I know someone who is about to start some…

I haven't noticed too much slowness lately...but I am guessing the web application's user sessions have been reset a few times over the past two days, as I keep having to log in ev…

I don't know about you, but I'm counting the hours until April 9.

Thus speaketh the kernel source: The "anticipatory" I/O scheduler is the default disk scheduler. It is generally a good choice for most environments, but is quite large and complex…