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Interesting example, I had never read that. Here it is: http://www.prlog.org/10272725-prison-consultant-vincent-stev...

Do they include some sort of userID on each question? I'd be interested to see those same results but only including people who asked a question for a language in each group. One commenter hypothesized the difference you're seeing is because "employed" and "weekend" programmers are two different groups of people.

I'm trying to download the data myself now, but the torrent isn't getting anywhere.

It will mean you can always RT a full tweet, instead of often having to cut off part of it to get it to still fit within 140 characters once you've added the "RT @soandso"

For the same reasons you might link to some other website from your blog, or submit a link here.

I doubt it. Baseball is declining in relative popularity as a sport, and collectible cards that are also games, like pokemon and magic, are just more fun.

I expect this number to be 95%+ at some point, because it's so much easier to scale bots than humans, but that's not necessarily a bad thing at all. I have 3 twitter accounts, one personal and 2 bot-controlled, with one of the bots having 10 times as many followers as my own. And deservedly so, he puts out a lot more interesting content than I do.

A better metric would be something like tweets*followers, or some other way to measure consumption of tweets instead of just production. Spam-bots will do poorly on that metric, but useful bots should do fine.

Oh my: "The economy is literally nose-diving."

Cool idea, but at $3.99/sq.ft that's hundreds of dollars per wall. I bought an 8'x4' sheet of melamine for less than $10, which would have been over $120 for that much paint.

"we’re likely to stop supporting IE6 for logged in activity like digging, burying, and commenting. Users of IE6 would still be able to view pages - just not logged in. This won’t happen tomorrow, but we’re thinking about doing it soon."

if language == python:

    self.smile()

One thing I'd never heard before: at least 9 percent of facebook's staff used to work for google

"The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart." -Kurt Vonnegut

It would be (mildly) interesting to see some stats on the difference in votes if pg occasionally posted under some other name. You could experiment over a couple weeks - before each comment flip a coin, heads you post with 'pg', tails with some new account. I guess ignore posts like this one where who you are is part of the comment.

I don't lump those all together. Why not "useful" if it really is useful, that's a lot different than calling something "essential", since that's a lie.

Pretty standard really.

The point is that the one day they were above yahoo is also the one day they launched, and got everyone trying it for the first time and tons of launch-day media coverage. The number could be 100% accurate, it still doesn't mean much.

Here's how I prepare for a launch:

1) log on to server 2) svn up 3) go to apache directory 4) bin/restart

One of the advantages you have as a start-up vs. larger corporations is that you CAN launch something before it's "ready". Getting feedback quickly and early is essential to evolving your product.

It's common knowledge that the earlier a bug is found the cheaper it is to fix. Same goes for problems in UI design, etc.

Cool site, but not a real comparison. I know google does a lot of personalization, based on being logged in or your cookie, but it can't do that on this. I'm assuming the other engines do something along those lines as well.

That just links to a big pdf with all the licenses (understandably, it was a pain getting the actual list out of that, but here it is)

Apache license

Prototype JavaScript Framework

Flex

Bzip2

Openssl

Curl

SSLeay

Libpcap

Fontconfig

libxml2

Bitstream Vera Fonts

Uriparser

Giflib

Ksoap

Poly9’s polyvalent URLParser class

Wbxml.java , Wbxmlparser.java , and WbxmlSerializer.java

Liboil

stlport

Sudo

lcu

Dhcp-client

NTP

PPP

libxslt except libexslt

jpeg-6b

Expat

c-ares

Freetype

Putty

Dropbear

Ncurses

Md5

Libpng

Strace

zlib

Datejs

libspeex

speex

Cairo

libunwind

Wpa_supplicant

Pmipclib

tiff

JSON-C

JSON

AGG

The Legion Of The Bouncy Castle

script.aculo.us

Jemalloc

Npruntime.h

The wxWindows Library Licence

dbus

Host AP

File-backed USB Storage Gadget

SQLiteJDBC

libvorbis

libogg

VLGothic Proportional Japanese Font

Minifier

CJK Unicode TrueType Fonts

JArgs command line option parsing suite for Java

TV is also delaying adult development.

Except McHawaii.com, which is owned my Management Consultants of Hawaii, so McDonalds uses McHawaii.net instead. Trivia!

That's like saying this website is one big ripoff. Mixing and matching content from other people to create something new is totally valid.

Think of it this way. Say someone was trying to get and use as much GPS data they could find to map the world's trails. Each source and format might require a different algorithm to "curate" it into a usable form for your data structures, but you certainly wouldn't have to tweak each individual bit of data.

This only applies if you're turning down work at $100/hour because you don't have enough time.

I feared the same thing when I stopped smoking, but I found, to my great surprise, it's actually possible to get up from your desk and go for a little walk WITHOUT smoking.

I agree, using it on the internet I kept clicking on the "screen" instead of using the buttons.

Though, I do find myself occasionally futilely poking at ATM and gas-station screens that were made years before touch-screens became common.

This is very common, essentially the default, it's just a matter of whether a site uses the information or not.

Consider, by default apache logs have IP address, and IP address approximately equals location. Actually, that article probably means IP when they say "geographic location".

I can think of 2 reasons for this. One, like you said, people don't seem as quick to post the "first thing that comes to my mind" sort of comment, which tend to be fairly shallow, or pun or meme-based.

Also, it doesn't take much for a story to get to the top, if only briefly. 5-10 up votes on a story shortly after it was submitted can get it near the top of the front page. It takes many more votes to get to the front page of a site like reddit, so more likely one of those up-voters commented as well.

Check out LEGO Mindstorms, it's basically LEGO with motors that you program. I think something physical attached to the (abstract) programs would be a great way to start.

It's recommended for ages 10+, but I'm sure a bright kid with an adult helping would love it.