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The big problem with recording any kind of video or audio on the web is Flash. It's a nightmare with well-known _major_ bugs in Chrome (good luck clicking on "Allow" if you're a Macbook Pro with Retina display user). If you guys can find a way to (a) solve that, and (b) take away that pain for other users, then you have real value here. Seriously, I can't wait for HTML5 to be fully supported.

Thanks for your feedback. We are working on an iOS integration right now.

We do have a sound level meter. If that didn't move for you, it probably means we didn't get any sound input from your microphone.

As for the sending, we are investigating it right now. I think the recipient email address was malformed; just pushed out a fix, hopefully that'll do.

Great idea, working on it right away.

EDIT: Done!

Yea, that's a bug with Flash and the new Retina display. They fixed that in the new beta version of Flash. Hopefully it will be pushed out soon.

>> Also, why are people still developing exclusively for iPhone? Last quarter there were four times as many Android phones sold as iPhones.

I can only speak for myself, but developing for Android is a nightmare compared to developing software for iOS. Different behaviour amongst different Android devices makes it really hard to provide a consistent user experience.

Great feedback, thank you! I certainly see your point, and I think it really depends on the use case. VoiceGem wasn't intended as a text replacement, but more for personal messages with emotional value, hence listening to them.

However, the use case you describe has come up several times now, so it's something we are aware of.

Thanks. We're definitely considering that, I think it would make a lot of sense.

Thanks! Yes, our data shows a surprising amount of longer messages. As for voicemail, same here. Arda addressed this in a comment above: it's just not used for asynchronous communication.

We see two main differences to existing voice applications. First, VoiceGem is meant to be usable by anyone (without having to install an iPhone application, for example). This is the kind of service you can use with your parents, non-tech friends, or customers. Secondly, and maybe even more importantly, we try to enable longer, richer conversations. Whereas blip.me/Voxer focus on walkie-talkie applications (and do a great job!), the messages we get and send are often 5+ minutes long.

Go to the home page and click on "Forgot password?" there.

Andrew Ng (along with Sebastian Thrun) are both working for Google (on driverless cars).

"I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs."

(I originally thought Dawkins once said that; if he did, he seemed to have quoted Johann Hari [1])

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/334644

If you're describing Dawkins as fundamentalist, then you either a) don't know much about him, and what he stands for, or b) have a grave understanding of what fundamentalism means.

It bothers me that Dawkins gets that accusation that often, when it's clearly false.

I do have a source for this, I saw the offer myself. I was also told that this is given to all interns, no matter what department. That being said, maybe this applied only to grad interns - maybe undergraduates get less.

For Stanford CS grads, it's anything but BS. From what I've heard (being at Stanford), it's usually somewhere around $80 - $120.

Google, for example, pays $8,000 a month - just for interns!

Worth noting: "The rating reflects the initial severity of the crisis not the current situation which has seen radiation levels drop dramatically."

Not exactly surprising considering Elop's background.

I'd like to question the implication that your life is not affected by work as a normal employee of a big company. Sure, it's most probably not going to be as intense as for a start-up, but that's less because of start-up vs big company, but much more about how committed you are to your work in general. I know lots of people working at big companies who have crazy work-hours and whose social life definitely gets affected by that.

Let's face it, if you want to be successful - start-up or not - you'll have to work your butt off.

The personal essay is the part where applicants stand out the most? I sure don't hope so...I am tired of reading all these I-almost-cured-cancer-as-a-kid type essays that people in the US seem to submit for the undergraduate application. Give me a break, seriously.

The single most important part of the Oxbridge application process is the interview. That's where you get to sit down with two professors that take you through challenging math problems (in case of Computer Science) and you are supposed to take them through your thinking process. Now, _that_ is where you can stand out. That's more like it.

That seems to be a plausible explanation. I am still puzzled how the work ended up being published, though. Surely, the reviewers must have thought the same?

I am talking about the original experiment. I am wondering whether people actually give ESP a serious possibility.

I am all for running experiments and finding out new things, and if this really happens to be a ground-breaking new discovery, great! That being said, what's more likely? That someone just _revolutionized_ physics and completely changed our concept of time, OOOOOR that there is something wrong with the experimental methodology? I don't know about you, but my 23 years on Earth make me think that the latter is quite a bit more probable...

Is anyone actually taking this _really_ seriously? I am still waiting for the prank to be revealed...

Imagine having been a TA for this class...

It should be something in between. I have done my undergrad at Cambridge and I am now at Stanford, and the curricula differ a lot. Cambridge is very theoretical, and teaches a lot about core computer science - they love functional programming, discrete mathematics, denotational semantics etc. Stanford, on the other hand, is much more hands-on. It's more project-based, where you have to actually implement something. At the same time, I feel that students here learn less about the theory.

Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I feel lucky to have the theoretical background as an undergrad and now be able to apply that knowledge as a grad at Stanford. I think there has to be something in between, and computer science as a major should not be on either ends of the extremes (theory/application).

I do not want to see a CS major who has no clue about programming any more than I want to see a CS guy who lacks the theoretical understanding of his subject.

Have a look at the source code. He just uses Google search.

Update: it works much, much better (faster) now - good job.

Nice idea. However, for me it's currently too slow to be really usable (sorry!). Just goes to show how amazing Google Instant is, I think.

>"The 'god' that Stephen Hawking is trying to debunk is not the creator God of the Abrahamic faiths who really is the ultimate explanation for why there is something rather than nothing," said Denis Alexander.

Wrong.

Some good tutorials can be found at http://www.osdever.net/tutorials/index - these are generally more hands-on than academic textbooks. Also, feel free to have a look at http://flick.cvs.sourceforge.net/flick/src/, my attempt at writing an OS (long time ago, now); the code is clear enough to give you a rough idea on how to get started.