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You just perfectly summarized my feelings on the matter; that "Singularity mentality" is kind of creepy.

Let's just hope this update doesn't have any security vulnerabilities, unlike the last time they did this:

http://cagematch.dvorak.org/index.php?topic=7280.0

It reminds me of China, where they have armed guards at train stations "randomly" questioning anyone they "think" might not have the necessary documents to be moving to (living in) that particular city.

Agreed - other than coverage and update frequency, they're very similar results. I think I actually prefer Bing overall.

Low iron can definitely cause a lot of the fatigue symptoms he's describing...but if the doctors missed that, it's scary.

Look at what the cat dragged in - a syntax for closures in Java.

Google docs has been doing that for me for a few months, I found that if I close the main docs screen after opening a document (in a new window), it usually fixes the problem.

I guess the real question is: does your tech support actually talk to the people who sign the cheques? If so, this could work.

In my experience, it hasn't been at all the case at all. The people who sign the cheques often speak a very different language and tend not to even use the product themselves...that's the job of their employees.

That closely echoes what I've seen locally; one business plan competition has had the the majority of winners (for the past 5 years that I've tracked it) not even bother to start a company, they just go get consulting jobs.

The contest doesn't even bother to list the old winners on their website, they know what's going on.

Business plan contests really don't seem to work.

Interesting, Google.hk (the source for unfiltered Chinese search results) is still accessible...even after all of that Google/China hullabaloo

In a database, yes, a single table with two indexes would efficiently look up followings/followers.

But in Cassandra there is no support for secondary indexes, so the follower/following data needs to be in separate column families. Then, they each have an index and can be looked up efficiently. (At least as far as I understand things in the NoSQL world)

Just to note, article's main point (that C surpassed Java) also happened previously in 2004-2005 as well, at least according to this Tiobe graph from Wikipedia (cum grano salis):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Tiobe_index.pn...

Apprently this is the paper: http://projects.will.madstones.com/thesis/papers/Malewicz%20...

But it's just 1 page, a bit of a letdown...

That's a great post, and yes, I was certainly working under the assumption that a nuclear explosion would have a distinct spectroscopic signature when compared to the emissions of our Sun. Is that false?

If we can (eventually) detect the oxygen atmosphere of a planet through passive spectroscopy, then it does seem to follow that we could easily detect nuclear explosions from the surface of that same planet. Unless I'm missing something...

If they win, I say we investigate (en masse) as to whether or not their datacenters are compatible with both pitchforks and fire.

Actually, it's not quite that simple in Canada.

Corporate contributions to political parties have been effectively cut off by the current Prime Minister (Harper), you can only do personal donations and only up to $1100 per person.

Harper had a lot of grassroots conservative support and the liberals had a lot of corporate support. The liberals were basically financially devastated and have had to build up from scratch (doing better now).

Still, the US has a strong pull with Harper, he looooves capitalism.

It's nice, but I want a way to get the old look back...

I would like to see some sources for the "more than 100 years of oil left" claim. If it's at all based on 'public reserve levels' declared by oil producing countries, those are basically totally fabricated.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilan...

In any case, it's the first claim in the article, he should back it up.

I would say the thousands of nuclear detonations we've done (global weapons tests) have probably sent a fair number of powerful signals. No information per se (other than "we like 'splosions"), but those are likely unmistakable indicators.

Of course, there's also these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI#Realized_projects

(but their argument seems to be: "don't keep doing that")

Google's page loading times seem kind of flaky. One of our sites' loading times has jumped between 1.5 and 10 seconds and back four times since they started graphing it.

But I have a cron job that tracks the loading times of random pages on our sites (from offsite, every 10 minutes). I get very consistent loading times (nowhere near that variance).

(Edit: they also suggest GZIP resources that are in fact already gzipped, at least they are according to the HTTP headers)

Even if they sue, it's Canada. You can only get actual damages (which you also have to prove), lawsuits in Canada aren't lotteries (like in the US).

Powerpoint is not the disease, it's the symptom.

When I was a more naive manager (and employer), I would have agreed with Suster's arguments.

But the startup world is simply not a "stable" place, for either party. There's always a tradeoff; my most stable/non-hopping friends work for the government doing fairly mind-numbing things. Those aren't the employees your startup is looking for.

I agree. I've written bad code but I've seen other folks do much worse, like check in code that was never even run once (could not run properly, regardless of input). Ugh.

Besides, how does one even objectively measure the "badness" of code?

"I can code in a crowded bar"

Bars aren't for coding, put down the computer.

Facebook, it's the new ICQ. Only a matter of time...

Ooh, that's not true, I've crashed OSX a fair number of times. Why, just 2 days ago the keyboard on my MB randomly stopped working. I couldn't type a thing (until rebooting). Both my MB and MBP will occasionally have the mouse not show up when waking the machine up (have to reboot), and sometimes freeze when I zoom out to all windows. On my mac pro desktop, I've had the disk utility freeze the entire OS just by running it (without even doing anything), happened at least 3 or 4 times last week.

Oh and my (older) MBP freezes 25% of the time just by plugging something into the dvi port. It's nice when you're just starting a presentation and have to say: "sorry everyone, just let me reboot". That MBP also has issues "waking up", it likes to stay asleep (lazy).

And let's not even get into the shitty batteries and how the MBP will randomly blank out (turn off) with like 20-30% battery life left. No warning, nothing, just powers off.

I don't like juggling multiple Google accounts either. At my company several of us use the webmaster tools - but that can only be linked to one google account. So whenever any of us checks it, there's a lot of signing out & signing in again. It is indeed annoying.

I wouldn't say so much "making their own" as they are cloning & tweaking the 2 CANDUs we sold 'em a few decades ago.

And yes, CANDU reactors can operate on thorium fuel cycles (lucky for them).

Yeah, it's technically a "theoretically bulletproof t-shirt" until they get around to that testing bit.