Interpreted (no compile stage), clear, easy to learn, fast, force good indentation practices, general enough, powerful enough without need to be verbose, easily scaled up with big amount of libraries, web/desktop frameworks and multithreading, not strong-typed (good for learning, at least), and a lot more advantages.

Is a small keyboard for a small screen, with Android that is not a great environment for multitasking with multiple windows like in a desktop. But who knows how well that should run with i.e. Ubuntu Touch when its more mature.

"best" depends on which things it should have are important for you. What i really need for that kind of device? Something that makes it shock resistant? that could put it in stand up mode? For me one important factor is that includes a hardware keyboard, and there are a lot of inexpensive ones that have (micro)USB…

Not just marketing media, the rest of the media is conspiring with it.

I blame Cindirella. Is something we have very deep into our culture, get a pair of magical shoes and you will live happily ever after, it shapes how we see how our actions makes our future. And that basic idea is widely exploited by ads, media and most of what surrounds you.

The point is that is not price what matters, as it could be even more expensive to explore it in its full potential, but can do precisely what you need, how you need it, if you really need something special that by default it don't provides.

Is an advantage not because you in particular can modify it. Is because everyone in general can. Your needs are not so particular, more people can have them, including people that can code. With Photoshop, you must hope that they consider that need general (and profitable) enough to add that functionality, but with…

Maybe not directly for a graphic designer, but the biggest advantage of open source is not its cost, but that you can modify it down to its core and even distribute your modifications. There are several forks of it, and of course, plenty of effects, plugins and a lot more.

Shouldn't be more or less the same to hear an audiobook while walking and using an activity tracker? It have more flexibility in the activity tracker than the one builtin in the app (could be even a dedicated device for that, like i.e. fitbit) and you pick your own story, in fact you can have always a different story…

For starting really from zero, i would recommend first playing a bit with Scratch, get used to the control structures, logic, variables, see the examples, all in a visual and intuitive way. For learning the basics of programming i would jump then to python or ruby (not very verbose, object oriented, have practical…

That chart looks a bit misleading. The bitcoin is right now at US$ 1200. If you left the market in middle of 2011 you would had lost money, if you stayed till today you would had won very big (even in april it went to over 100). It would be pretty much the same if i would chart the shares of microsoft, apple, google,…

What about blue walls (or even mostly blue, furniture/curtains/posters/etc) in white light rooms? White light have some advantages on reading or at least perceiving faithful colors.

Remember, 99.999999% of drug trading is done in dollars. And probably a lot of it goes online anyway. That you choose to not see the elephant in the room don't mean that is not there.

Ctrl-R in bash command line. There are more efficient/visual shells to search in command history, but by now im hardcoded with that one.

Something that if well i am aware of, i don't use it. For starters, up arrow let me edit last line (up-home sudo space would do the trick). But more important, i see what im really executing. no matter how much the page scrolled. Executing without actually seeing an rm with root permissions is risky ("rm -rf /…

There are several gadgets today that could help waking up better. This lamps slowly rise light and noise before its time so you wakes up when the time comes. And there are some sleep monitors (either in hardware or as cellphone apps) that wakes you up in your light sleep cycles closer to the wake up hour.

Turn your workout into a game you enjoy, and won't be boring. In general, doing things alone, with the only goal of doing the workout is boring and probably harmful or at least not as possitive as having it as side effect of doing more things, like socializing, playing, visiting new and/or nice places, enjoying music…

If you want to build a really budget friendly gym, you just need a chair, and floor and a wall... and of course, 7 minutes.

This looks a lot like the pomodoro technique with a longer time period.

Water. 0 calories, and could saciate you.