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One of the "big gray blob(s) in the middle of the map" is the Black Sea.

A cookie is such a transient data source. Some people regularly purge them all. Some people use more than one device.

I wouldn't bother changing any preferences that disappear every time I clear out my cookies. For starters, I'd have to figure out where on the website the preferences are set -- and if it's in the user profile, well, just save my preferences there.

From the article: "There were limitations to the study, such as the participants only being asked about their sleeping habits only once, making it impossible to detect changes in their sleep habits over time."

Asking them one time about their behavior over many years? I wouldn't place much credence in the study's reported results then.

For naming stored procedures, there were a lot of helpful answers to my question "What is your naming convention for stored procedures?" on StackOverflow a few years ago. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/238267/what-is-your-nami...

I have a huge collection on Pinboard https://pinboard.in/. It's a very simple browser-accessible site that charges $11 per year for what seems like an unlimited number of bookmarks. The item properties are URL, title, description and tag(s). And it displays how many other users have added the same link. I consider this tool indispensable.

The current version 1.21 of Kindle is only available in 32-bit.

How is the reseller supposed to track me after I move to the other end of the country and my mail-forwarding order at the Post Office has expired?

My great-grandfather was killed by a streetcar (on rails) on Market Street in downtown San Francisco.

I believe that you can't be down-voted, and therefore lose your hard-won points, by commenting. But if you answer, you can be down-voted. So for some participants, commenting is prudent.

In his inspiring book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big", Scott Adams places much emphasis on the seeming randomness of luck. In describing his approach to success, he says "I pursued a conscious strategy of managing my opportunities in a way that would make it easier for luck to find me." His strategy includes focusing on systems rather than goals, and developing moderate skills in multiple areas. It's a very good read.

www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still/dp/1591846

I'm not sure the word "dubious" means what you think it means. Are the employers dubious?

Yes, that's it. https://brandyourself.com/ offers some free help in avoiding negative search results, also in promoting positive results.

I attended the event in person, and overall enjoyed it. But I keep wondering: is the reason Google wants us to squeeze our file sizes and page load time down to the bare minimum because they want to maximize the bandwidth available for more and larger ads?

Thank you for spending the time to assess the validity of the claimed result, and for taking the time to explain it to us. This is a great example of the frequently poor quality of reported scientific studies.

Scott Adams has an excellent explanation of this today in his blog "The Illusion of Knowledge" http://blog.dilbert.com/post/155121836641/the-illusion-of-kn...

A snippet: "no non-scientist can evaluate the claims of climate science because BOTH sides look 100% convincing to the under-informed.

So how did the public respond to my claim that BOTH sides of the debate look convincing? They berated me for not sufficiently researching materials from ONE side of the debate that happens to be their side. Many people suggested that I could simply do some homework, on my own, and get to the bottom of climate science.

That is a massive public illusion."

So ironic that Jacques Mattheij's compelling piece about trackers appears immediately before this on HN right now. The linked Wired article about the Media Lab cannot be viewed if you are using an ad blocker. Bye, Wired.

No delay on Microsoft.com in the Mobile Mercury browser nor Chrome 41 on iPad.

Hahaha, I looked at the article first, then came to see the comments after I read that I was wrong about the one on the right. Why are the flyers on top of a black bar? Is that Times New Roman? Are we putting borders around our images again? Why are coffee cup rings such popular logos? And what's with the pink table of contents that won't swipe away? Boy, this developer has a lot to learn about design. Imma go finish that article.

The science who must not be named is climate change.

I did a whole demo app in Backbone for Twitter, burned a lot of overtime hours for a couple of weeks. On the way to my interview, they said nevermind, they'd hired someone else. They did go ahead and interview me, for another position I wasn't interested in, and those guys had no interest in my demo app.

You got an MBA or a Mac?

The competition between these teams is going to make both of them better. They will not only be competing on speed, but also on features. A huge win for developers.

Then there's RDD, resume-driven development, wherein you choose your stack for the new app based on what you want to add to your resume.

Sadly, that is omitted from the free Visual Studio 2013 Express Edition.

Can I run this Dev Edition side-by-side with the regular version of Firefox, on the same machine?

I only paid one up-front fee of about $10.00. It isn't subscription-based. That is stated quite clearly on the home page. Be sure you go to http://pinboard.in/ and not one of their rivals.

I love pinboard! I started out with delicious until it got bought and got weird, then I moved to Google bookmarks but it's so crude. I need something that follows me on every machine. The magick is in being able to add tags.

For starters http://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

Wait, what!? One of my favorite online health info sources just yesterday headlined "FDA Reverses Its Position on Daily Aspirin" http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/08/0... which says only certain ppl may benefit from regular aspirin. The data do not support the use of aspirin as a preventive medication ...

I thought it was really weird last week when I called to cancel my Comcast internet service and it was so easy! I only have internet, no TV or phone, and when the "teaser" rate expired, they wanted $85 per month. No way, ppl. I have plenty of alternatives in SF, fortunately.

They only made one feeble attempt to offer me a better rate. They even sent me a shipping box to return their router in, for free.

I was really confused by this experience, but maybe this explains it.