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I'm not sure how I feel about this. It's a lofty wish, but I'd prefer that drive manufacturers switch to base 2. Since it's the basis of digital logic and all.

I'm impressed by their App Status Dashboard (http://www.google.com/appsstatus), which I hadn't seen before today. It's a very helpful tool for when this kind of outage happens. I wish Twitter would follow suit.

Ditto. Back to Dino Comics, TED talks, and SICP.

All those articles warning against having all your data in the cloud are coming to mind. On the bright side, without email, there's temporarily one less distraction to worry about. http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html

That's the feeling I'm going for. Hopefully the MIT history of computing book coupled with Hackers and a full load of computer science courses in the fall will help motivate me.

I'm currently reading "Persepolis," the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, and MIT Press' "A History of Modern Computing." I recently acquired a copy of Steven Levy's "Hackers," which I'd like to at least start before the end of the summer.

I especially enjoyed Stephen Adams' talk. The other two were very interesting, but much broader overviews of Google technologies. Adams really drilled down into the nitty gritty tricks he used to decrease the size of Chrome updates.

In contrast, a large portion of Chee Chew's talk was basically a Google engineer walking through how to attach documents and use video chat in Gmail.

I really hope they do more of these talks. As a UW student, it's thrilling to be able to hop on a bus and go rub shoulders with Googlers.

Any resources on how to leverage this? Their FAQ offers no info for developers.

Interesting article, but 0 technical detail. Mimicking the human brain in terms of neuron/transistor count is one thing, but it's not a scenario where you can just copy the hardware and expect it to work. Research has hinted that myelination plays a role in cognition, but we don't know exactly how, let alone how to engineer it.

I wonder if they eat their own dogfood and use Mint to manage the company's finances.

Why does everyone and they're extended family call themselves "rockstar" now?

They couldn't more blatantly copy Google's template and color scheme.

http://navify.com/ http://news.google.com/

Wolfram|Alpha: statistical, linguistic analysis... now with computational racism!

I couldn't disagree more. There's at least as much variety in teas as in coffees and the "skill" needed to expertly discern between them is an equal breed of obsession to that of the most affected coffee-snob. Tea preparation can be equally complex, requiring certain timing and techniques, depending on the type and grade of tea.

Just sayin'.

Not really news, but I'll take it. Clojure's been popping up everywhere lately and I'm currently knee-deep in functional programming in my PL class, so I'll definitely bookmark this for when I feel like learning over the summer. Thanks!

I tend to like reading physical books (gasp), but some of these are definitely worth scanning through. The E-Books Directory website as a whole has tons of good stuff on other topics, too.

I'm wondering how many people will wear the suggested identity t-shirts. As cool as wearing your internet identity on your chest is, I'd kinda rather go in regular clothes + a nametag.

I'm in the middle of taking the undergrad PL class at the University of Washington and I've come to the conclusion that classes of this sort can be whatever you make them. We spent the first five weeks learning/using ML, recently switched to Scheme, and will dive into Ruby for a few weeks before the quarter ends. While I'm sure many of my peers will leave the course thinking of functional languages as a quirky set of under-developed relatives to the tried-and-true OO family, I've spent the last 6 weeks breathing functional programming, both in my coursework and in places like this thread. I feel that I'm taking more away from the class and that much of introductory computer science works this way. The burden of learning is on the student to become engaged in the subject matter and make use of the resources the school and professor provides.

At the end of the day, the department won't make the student great. To a degree, a driven and talented student can succeed anywhere, regardless of how many ooh's and aah's a name-dropping of their school will produce.

I'm taking statistics at the moment too, actually. I understand what you're saying. I was simply remarking on the pleasantness of seeing a correlation between my academic material and real-world applications.

I swear Hacker/Innocuous News is following the programming languages class I'm currently taking. In the last week we've gone over tail recursion and the Markov model and in the last 12 hours they've both made appearances on the front page.

People have been saying that for 2 years. "The next version" is always when they'll dump the sordid brown.