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I wonder how the Nytimes front page will be converted.

One of the issues with Duck Duck go is that it does filter results to the country of the user. As an UK user, when I put in the word flowers or "local programmers", I expect the results to be inclined towards UK pages as this is what will help me. Google does this well! There is no point in showing me stuff in NJ or Canada.

Or you could turn off instant search.

I think this is what Facebook wants to be with OpenGraph!

Well, imagine a kid trying to search for sextant!

which is in my opinion PHP's greatest strength and greatest weakness. Weakness because not-so-good developers think they are good while writing code using register globals, no input validation, no escaping output, etc..

Exactly the way I felt!

>Card 5: $75. Laurie buys $74.61 worth of food, phone minutes and cigarettes at a gas station convenience store. Returns card.

Looks like Laurie checked the balance on the card and used it fully. She was the only one to use almost the entire balance.

This is what I did after 1 hour! http://imgur.com/nFjZD.png you know testing out the code :)

I am a newbie in this space. Is it better to build webapps for Twitter, facebook and Gmail like applications that rely heavily on the data to be downloaded? Is this the best route for web developers to take? I have seen sencha mobile and it looks great for cross device compatibility as well iphone/ipad/android.

Wolfram Alpha beats Google on this! http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0+degrees+celsius+-+0+d...

Don't forget to tell your loved ones, your friends, family, etc that you are working on the launch in 30 days. This way they know that you are not to be bothered, etc. I picked this up from this link here http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/how-to-get-your-side-proj...

Very interesting. I was one of those people with the misconception. How did the ancient greeks think that we were glued onto the planet? Gravity was something Newton defined? Am I having another misconception?

The overall article makes sense BUT, I know people who have worked in the same place for over 10 years, love the job, are productive and get results. They don't work their butts off, they have achieved some kind of state where they know what the company really needs are delivers exactly that.

This gives purpose to all the years of Chemistry I learned at school.. Thank you!

Coca-Cola outsells Pepsi in most parts of the U.S., notable exceptions being central Appalachia, North Dakota, and Utah. In the city of Buffalo, New York, Pepsi outsells Coca-Cola by a two-to-one margin.

Overall, Coca-Cola continues to outsell Pepsi in almost all areas of the world. However, exceptions include India; Saudi Arabia; Pakistan, the Dominican Republic; Guatemala the Canadian provinces of Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island; and Northern Ontario

This uses iframes to pit websites against each other. Twitter breaks out of iframes and so do other websites.

I am on Ubuntu 10.04, what do I need to do besides updates and "proper" use to remain safe? I don't have an antivirus or anything of that sort!

IMHO, the Internet revolution only began with the web around 1995. The web (http) is the marvel we see today (Facebook, Gmail, Hacker News, etc). By the end of 1994, the total number of websites was still minute compared to present standards and Netscape was only founded in 1994. If the web didn't take off, the author probably would have been right!

Pretty interesting.. but there are a few results for "iphone four". http://www.google.co.uk/images?&q=iphone+four. In the UK version the first image result is the iphone 4.

I was expecting YouTube's thoughts in a video!

This was a brilliant idea but unfortunately they no longer use Zimbabwean Dollar anymore, instead the economy has fully moved to USD (now they are legally allowed to do so).. Previously you would get paid in billions.. Zimbabwe's $100 billion banknote could buy you 3 eggs on its release date.

The only way to get paid the correct amount you "really" deserve is to be a founder yourself. But it is definitely not the easy way.

The founder is clearly exploiting you, but he sure has justifications in his head. Something like, it was all my idea, I took the risk, it was my execution, etc.. etc.. I think you must negotiate with the founder. Basically a bit of everything that you just wrote above.

even if it isn't fixed, don't break it!

I got hacked similarly on my blog and it went undetected when my wordpress code files were changed. Now I can detect the website/server is hacked using this php code http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/how-to-detect-if-your-web... (like tripwire)

This helped me a couple of times and once when a hack on my wordpress blog only showed different page links to the google bot!

Please never store Truecrypt files in dropbox. I have tried this and it does not work as mentioned.

A small additional file changes the encrypted file so much that it causes dropbox to sync a large change through to the server although dropbox only sync's changes.

He needs to fix this soon http://banksimple.net/jobs/

The author basically says that ads on Facebook are a Ponzi scheme as it is often taken up by newer advertisers who then dump it as it produces no results. He estimates Facebook will make about 10 billion doing this.

$10 billion is a lot! by the time they run out of the ad based ponzi they can well find another scheme and keep making huge returns!

This is a nice list. Thanks. Also check out these Javascript gotchas that can save you time http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/javascript-gotchas-listed...

The last time Apple was beaten by Microsoft (although it had partnerships originally) as it considered IBM its major threat. This time around I think Apple will be beaten by Google as it is having most of its focus on Microsoft.