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JoeCamel··on Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil
Yes, Galois is also a great example of fictionalization. "Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois" http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~trothman/galois.html
JoeCamel··on Google open sources key piece of Street View technology
Johnny Lee has written a short post about Ceres: http://procrastineering.blogspot.se/2012/05/today-sameer-aga... "If I find the time, I might try to post some tutorials on using Ceres. Because I believe this is one of the most powerful tools in modern engineering, and no one ever taught it to me in undergrad or high school. It's like the difference between doing long division by hand and then being handed a calculator."
JoeCamel··on Chrome’s WebRTC roadmap
I think "multiple independent PeerConnection" will enable, in some way, multi-party chat. And over each PeerConnection you can have multiple streams (e.g. audio/video and data stream for something else).
JoeCamel··on Doodle or Die - our "bizarrely addictive" Node Knockout game
Two ideas. Maybe some people would like only to draw or only to describe doodles. Though I don't know how this would affect the game. And a troll button for marking intentional chain-breakers. If enough people mark the troll then you could remove his image/description and recover the chain.

Some of my favorite (parts of) chains: http://i.imgur.com/52307.png http://i.imgur.com/SnT6r.png http://i.imgur.com/KhMql.png

JoeCamel··on Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications (A Free Textbook)
It's used in the course "Abstract Algebra" (Harvard). Lecture videos are available: http://www.extension.harvard.edu/openlearning/math222/ Benedict Gross is a great lecturer and I recommend watching them.
JoeCamel··on The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP)
No, there actually are problems in "NP-intermediate" class (if P!=NP) although they are artificial. :) And, of course you are right, for many other problems researchers suspect they might be in NPI. See http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/79/problems-betw...
JoeCamel··on List of languages that compile to JS
List of interpreters implemented in JavaScript for various languages would be also nice. I think they can be useful for educational purposes i.e. writing interactive materials on the web.
JoeCamel··on If you could only learn three programming languages, which would you choose?
R and language of TeX. They are not on the list.
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