Am I the only one that prefers Holo to KitKat/Kennedy?

Kennedy seems a closer to iOS than Holo was, so I expect this to make cross-platform themeing easier for app makers, but I'm sad to see Matias Duarte's work diluted

I just tried out the f.lux for Philips Hue feature and it is highly impractical because it arbitrarily adjusts the brightness of all Hue lights in your house...

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of LampShade.io, an Android app for the Hue that has a similar feature (and many others too)

Shameless self promotion: I'm the creator of an Android app for the Hue called LampShade.io that also supports this (and a ton of other features!)

Why not assign something like http://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1 as homework instead?

Battery replacements are around 10k/decade[1]. Quite a bit less than the 30k/decade estimated petrol specific costs provided by the author.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Battery

Your break-even point depends a lot on how much you drive each year. I drive about 3000 miles a year (primarily to get to mass transit) and my car gets about 25 mpg in local driving, using 120 gallons of gas a year. At around $4 per gallon, that's only $480 a year or $4800 per decade. My car is 12 years old, so I'd expect a car bought this year to be more efficient.

Is this just about being able to reuse components beyond the original use case, or also being able to split the product and let hackers drop in existing Arduinos we have laying around?

Unfortunate side effect of decreasing the barriers to (e)book publishing?

Despite the problems Google had initially shipping physical products over Play/Wallet, I suspect this will be more polished. The showroom they have for the Google Fiberhood appeared well run when I encountered it.

I grew up around the energy industry and spent my childhood focused on engineering and history. I was converted through my high-school's strong computer science program. Next I picked up Android development. Now I'm a CS & EE undergrad. In my internships so far I've done HCI R&D for the Oil Industry. Not sure if I'll become a full blooded "valley-type techie" or a software/engineer for some other industry.

I just got a 16GB model after hitting refresh on and off for the past hour

Thanks for the tip - this worked for me as well, although I felt kind of dirty doing it (the poor servers!).

Same here. Requires lots of patience.