Reducing the length of the workweek has two effects: it brings more people into the workforce by creating new jobs to replace the lost hours, but it also incentivizes workers to choose not participating in the economy over consumption, which is exactly the opposite of what most people choose ...
And is it even worth the time and effort to become a multilingual coder? Well, you probably know that learning multiple languages is part of the traditional university track–programmers with degrees in computer science will usually have trained in half a dozen languages by graduation. But w...
Also, the interesting part is that recent focus of “Recorded Future” are terrorist groups such as ISIS, cyber criminal organizations and any kind of “public” internet activity that’s related to possible threats. Conclusion would be that the privacy on facebook does not exist and their lawy...
Below, you’ll find the latest television ad for the Palm Pre. It’s simply shot, backed by soothing music, and consistent with Palm’s other Beijing-opening-ceremony style ad from June. It’s also bizarrely, pervasively creepy. What’s going on here? (For reference, here is the first...
local news isn’t just about reporting local events–that part is easy. It’s about maintaining a staff of journalists who attacked national topics from their city’s perspective, who wrote op-eds that struck a chord with the regional audience, and who investigated scandals that might’ve draw...
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Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of using barcodes in a retail business: educating everyone in the store, customers and employees alike. This is more necessary than it might appear, since iOS devices don’t come pre-loaded with a QR code reading app. While iPhone-owning customers might be...
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Hardware Done Right This is almost never Apple’s problem; they have the most equisitely-designed and dependable machines on the PC market. But it bears saying that they’ll need something super-light, GPS- and 3G-enabled if they’re going to get people excited–after all, if the lowly ...