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We are trying to qualify for a grant that would allow us to devote significant resources towards the creation of apps for children with special educational needs. We could really use your help with this. All you need to…

After years of designing custom display systems based around highly customized FPGA-based real time image processors we learned a very interesting lesson: Power consumption and image processor cooling requirements are a…

Pick a language. Create the same solution.<p>An old language like APL allows one to focus on the problem domain and almost not think about the mechanics of solving a problem. I programmed in APL many years ago…

There was a post on HN a few days ago from someone giving reasons for wanting to move to pirating Windows after many years of licensing the OS. I didn't really agree with the thinking behind these ideas. If you are…

Before you could use the "Volume +" button to take pictures it was probably accepted fact that you had to have the home button on the right when taking landscape shots. Now that the "+" button is available it seems that…

Two examples that make me think about this from time to time. First, a number of sites that require registration email you with confirmation of your registration. They include your user id and password in plain text…

The one thing keeping me from buying a 17in. notebook is the lack of a full keyboard with numeric keypad. I really don't want to lug around an external keypad. I already lug around a trackball with our PC notebooks and…

What would the Internet be like if IBM Watson was doing the searching for you? Time to start thinking about shorting that Google stock?

I am working on a series of educational apps for iOS and other mobile platforms. Part of this is coming-up with a grading system that makes sense. The objective isn't to simply provide a grade that corresponds to how a…