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To see past the distracting, dopey teenager and glimpse the adaptive adolescent within, we should look not at specific, sometimes startling, behaviors, such as skateboarding down stairways or dating fast company, but at the broader traits that underlie those acts. Let's start with the teen's love of…

To see past the distracting, dopey teenager and glimpse the adaptive adolescent within, we should look not at specific, sometimes startling, behaviors, such as skateboarding down stairways or dating fast company, but at the broader traits that underlie those acts. Let's start with the teen's love of…

Kindle Fire The Kindle Fire’s slogan says it all: “ All the content. Ultra-fast web browsing. ” That’s the best sort of marketing message: simple, appealing, and true . Well, we’ll see how fast their

This talk by John Gruber and Merlin Mann at SXSW 2009 came up again from John’s link to a fan video , and it was a great reminder to redownload the audio and listen again. It has become much more famo

With so many projects, if the customer is willing to go without a small subset of the functionality they think they need, it can save a massive amount of effort, cost, and complexity and result in a m

Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov Sept. 19, 2011 REL

Last weekend I spoke at the Turing Festival in Edinburgh. It was a new talk. Short - just 20 minutes - and presenting some new material. Since the talk was short, I necessarily omitted a certain amount of additional material I wanted to mention. I also presented some data that might be perceived as…

In last week’s Build and Analyze , we speculated about what the future Amazon tablet might be, fitting the most credible rumors we’ve heard so far. (This is basically an expanded version of that, so i

There’s no other way for me to start this other than by firing away:Last week I left my full-time job at Joyent , for the sole reasonso that I can write Daring Fireball as a full-time job. Two years a

HP acquired Palm at the end of April 2010 , for $1.2 billion. HP’s CEO was Mark Hurd. Three months later, in early August, Mark Hurd was forced to resign over that scandal with forged expenses and lie

BROOKLYN -- We hopped on the F line in Carroll Gardens, but not in the normal direction, north to Manhattan. Instead we headed south, out towards Gravesend. The train rattled through the long stretche