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stummon Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google?

What were the terms of the other 91 cases? You make it sound like the Google engineers were slaving away for two weeks. My impression was that they ran the experiment during that time.

stummon 37Signals to retire OpenID for logins on May 1

Wasn't web finger supposed to fix some of the usability issues with openID? I don't think I ever saw that added, but I could be wrong.

stummon Why Is Eric Schmidt Stepping Down at Google?

Actually that's not true. Apple made $6 billion in profit vs Google's $8.44 billion in revenue (and $2.54 billion in profit).

sources: - http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_17152005 - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-18/apple-profit-rises-...

stummon Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Jan '11 H1b/International Edition)

I don't think that it is a specific number. I've heard people suggest you say less than 40%.

stummon Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Jan '11 H1b/International Edition)

As far as I know many devs from Canada working at large companies, such as Microsoft and Google, are brought in under the CSA title. You just need to be careful what you say at the border. I've worked under a TN, but am now thankfully switching to an H-1B which is supposed to be a much more pleasant border crossing experience.

stummon Homeland Security seizes music blog domains

they are not doing it at the Registrar level(by contacting the registrar for the domain and forcing them to update the authoritative name server info to point to NS1.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM, NS2.SEIZEDSERVERS.COM), but rather through the agency who controls the top level domain. In this case, all the “seized domains” appear to be .com and the agency/company who has the ICANN contract for this TLD is VeriSign(which also controls .net TLD).

More details can be found here: http://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/the-background-d...

stummon Chrome for a Cause

It looks like it matches the maximum donation Microsoft was making for the "browser for the better" campaign. The only difference is IE donated per download, not for usage.

stummon Instapaper's backup method

He was actually the CTO of tumblr.

stummon Personal Genetics Startup 23andMe Raises $22 Million

You may have applied just as they had a round of layoffs. Don't take it personally.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/29/layoffs-confirmed-at-23andm...

stummon $249 Android tablet from Barnes & Noble

Wouldn't it get that through the android OS?

stummon New MacBook Air Specs

You forgot to compare the price. The "reasonable price" option there is more expensive than the highest price macbook air.

stummon Microsoft sues Motorola over Android patent infringements

The cube is for filing a patent. You get the plaque when it is awarded.

stummon Google Voice open for everyone (In the US)

I use this and on the whole it's very reliable, however sometimes messages seem to get lost. Maybe if they're too long, it's not 100% clear to me.

stummon Tesla’s Elon Musk: “I ran out of cash”

Tony Stark's character was supposedly modeled after Musk.

stummon Never hire job hoppers. Never. They make terrible employees.

Either you were making a ridiculously small amount to start with, you are making a gargantuan amount now, or there's a mistake in your calculations. Increasing your salary 16X in 4 years seems more than a little unusual.

stummon Spreadsheet - Ranking Tech Companies by Revenue per Employee

This desperately needs linked sources for all numbers.

stummon Don’t Sell Out, Foursquare. Not Now. Not To Yahoo.

They moved all of yahoo photos over to Flickr, as well as some integration between upcoming and Flickr. I'm not sure what else they did.

stummon 5 million Dropboxes

They already stated that they had 4 million users a month ago: http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=289

stummon Google: We May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail

Not sure if the article got updated, but it says: "Horowitz stressed that Google would still offer a version of Buzz within Gmail, in addition to any independent version".

stummon [dead]

An April fools joke from 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googles_hoaxes#Google_TiSP

stummon Street View of Winter Games

In some parts the camera is covered in ice. For example if you click next here you'll see the transition: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&hq=http:%2F%2Fmaps.goo...

stummon Google's Super Bowl ad shows the need for search privacy

It's "it's" not "its".

stummon Pancreatic Cancer Linked to Sodas?

I'm pretty sure much of the pop sold in Canada contains HFCS. They call it glucose/fructose there. In the UK it's referred to as: "glucose-fructose syrup". This sometimes leads to confusion.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup

stummon AT&T to Put 5gb Data Usage Cap on iPhone

This title doesn't match what the article says at all. The article claims the cap is already in place:

> Right now, the carrier has a monthly usage cap of 5 gigabytes on its data plans, the same as other carriers.

stummon Unemployment rate 10.2%

If you include discouraged workers (ie. people who aren't looking for work) the rate is actually 17.5%. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm

stummon Google Wave's Phased Beta is Disappointing

I believe they tried to get around this problem by giving each person 10 invites. Some people sold them, other people invited their friend or team which made it more useful.

stummon Piratebay strikes back

>> Oh, maybe they won't make hundreds of millions of dollars. Should I give up my rights so "recording artists" can be filthy rich?

It's a fallacy that most recording artists are "filthy rich", not mention how much they make is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. What "right" are you giving up?

stummon Google’s Experimental Homepage Fades To A Single Word

Many people also click the "go" button after typing a URL into the address bar of a browser.

stummon Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype

"Google’s Wave will crash hard onto the beach of overhype" coming from the man who said World Wide Telescope made him cry. (WWT is nice, but I can't imagine it making anyone cry). Why does the web always seem to reward those who make the most exaggerated and outlandish statements?

He only seems to addresses the Google wave client in his complaint, when there's much more to it. If he doesn't like their implementation he could implement his own with their federation protocol.

On a side note, why does he say new things can come in at the bottom? From my limited use of the dev preview new stuff is always coming at the top of my wave inbox.

stummon AT&T Goes After Google Voice

Stupid question: how do long distance charges fit into "connect to anyone at one price"?