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1. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
2. You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different.
3. Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now...

The purple portion of the graphic, above, represents income from Microsoft Office. The green portion represents income from Microsoft Windows. Microsoft’s problem is that both of those cash cows are located, almost exclusively, on desktop and notebook PCs and PCs are in decline both in actual and in relative terms.

The reason normal people got wives and kids and hobbies, whatever. That’s because they don’t got that one thing that hits them that hard and that true. I got music, you got this. The thing you think about all the time, the thing that keeps you south of normal. Yeah, makes us great, makes us the best. All we miss out on is everything else.

I haven't used this Drupal "Table of Contents" module yet, but it looks like what I want, which is a Wikipedia-style ToC on some of my larger tutorial pages.

In his highly anticipated annual shareholder letter, published Friday, famed investor Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. went straight to the bad news. Despite Berkshire (US:BRK.A) (US:BRK.B) achieving a $24.1 billion net gain for shareholders and the conglomerate’s book-value rising 14.4% in 2012, he deemed it a “subpar” performance.

“For the ninth time...

Five tips for startup founders from startup founders.

1. Haste makes waste. Slow down when it comes to key decisions.
2. Do everything.
3. People are your biggest assets.
4. It's all about the user, stupid.
5. Be prepared to fail.

Most LinkedIn users know “People You May Know” as one of that site’s flagship features — an onmipresent reminder of other LinkedIn users with whom you probably want to connect. Keeping it up to date and accurate requires some heady data science and impressive engineering to keep data constantly flowing between the various LinkedIn applications. When Jay Kreps started...

I LOVE the story behind this wild chair – when designer Jason Goh would play with his food as a child (his favorite being fish balls), his grandma came up with a scary fish ball monster story to deter him. She said that if he kept playing the fish balls would turn into a big hairy monster and eat him up! Bringing the story to life, this monstrous Moyee chair inspires play in kids and adults...

Neuroscientists at Duke University have proven that telepathic communication—between rats—is not only possible, but can be done across continents. Similar experiments are already being tested on monkeys.

The discovery, published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, is the first confirmed brain-to-brain communication between animals.

In the experiment, two rats...

A slide presentation on what's new in Scala 2.10, from Daniel Sobral.

Quite often, you need to work through a file line by line, rather than reading the entire thing in as a single string as we did above. For example, you might need to process each line differently, so just having it as a single String isn’t particular convenient. Or, you might be working with a large file that cannot easily fit into memory (which is what happens when you read in the...

Jeff Hammerbacher says that Facebook tried them all. And none of them did what the web giant needed them to do.

Hammerbacher is the Harvard-trained mathematician Facebook hired in 2006. His job was to harness all the digital data generated by Mark Zuckerberg’s social network — to make sense of what people were doing on the service and find new ways of improving the thing....

"We had the mother of all years," Cook said.

Cook walked through the long list of product releases in 2012, the most ever in its history.

On the iPhone 5, released in September: "It's absolutely the best iPhone we've ever done."

On the iPad Mini announced in October: "The iPad Mini has gone on to incredible success. Our challenge has been...

The Leap Motion controller, a computer accessory that lets you control your Mac or Windows 7 PC with hand gestures, will launch May 13 for a very reasonable $79.99, the company announced today.

Leap Motion had a lot of people going nuts when they saw it at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year. The dongle sits beneath your computer monitor and can recognize hand gestures in the...

Bio: Long-time Ruby developer who recently made the switch to Scala. Currently a backend Scala developer at Quantifind in the Bay Area. Creator of the popular "redis_failover" project that provides automatic failover for Redis on top of ZooKeeper.

Ruby has a long history of "making the developer happy" by allowing for ease of programming and prototyping. Rails has taken off by storm and...

About 30 percent of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil, nuts, beans, fish, fruits and vegetables, and even drink wine with meals, a large and rigorous new study has found.

The findings, published on The New England Journal of Medicine’s Web site on Monday, were based...

First off, carriers love anything that threatens to lessen the power of Apple and Android. It’s why they always express hope and optimism for any new release of Windows or BlackBerry and have for years.

“Duopolies are not beneficial for any industry,” Telefonica CEO Cesar Alierta said onstage at Mozilla’s press conference on Sunday. Telefonica is betting very big on Firefox OS, bringing it...

A nice collection of homes that blend in well with their natural surroundings.