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Not really future-proof... http://www.cnet.com/news/google-saying-buh-bye-to-chrome-app...

Come on, it's a perfect number!

Is it me or is it impossible to scroll that page in Safari?

Let's just move the 1st of January to the day the 'real' winter begins. Time... what an invention!

Startup time in a server is a non-issue... Those processes keep running the whole time.

The French word for engineer is ingénieur, which originates from engigneor which has the same roots as the English word engineer...

It would be refreshing to see a line of reasoning instead of the "Person X is afraid of Y" articles.

Hacker News? :)

You forget the square root: 5 is prime.

Worst cables ever... so far for the 'superior' hardware.

Prices are at their fairest the moment they release new hardware. The later you buy their hardware the bigger the difference with their competitors (They only lower the price of older hardware when releasing a new model and not that much either).

But superior hardware, no, that is a bridge too far. Decent hardware, yes, but not all hardware from Apple is equal.

Indeed, for me it was a page turner and inspiring.

Plenty of letters in the alphabet, even more words! It's not the name that makes the product.

Looks like some Semitic language.

Correction, you added the source after my comment ;) But indeed, you didn't make that claim.

I am trying really hard to ignore the Futurama picture. Really hard!

If you look at the source, you shouldn't be surprised. It uses a very small subset of what is present now in html.

It also made me discover that view source was removed from Safari 6 (Without enabling the Developer menu) :(

You are assuming that the profits they reported this quarter will be the same next quarters, why?

Just trim the length of the ums and nobody notices them anymore. Fund a startup that can do um-filtering (speaking through a microphone) on the fly, problem solved. :)

You are in great company, just watched a couple of videos of Elon Musk and Donald Knuth. They are also expert um'ers but everyone keeps listening because the message they are broadcasting is interesting.

The factor that makes ideas better (or in some cases worse) is thought, which comes with time. Speaking is very engaging at least for some people... (I notice this when I am in the car and talking to someone). It consumes a lot of attention, attention which can not be used to think about the problem. The same occurs when I have a discussion with someone. When I walk away after the discussion I get a lot of: "Oh, I forgot to say this, oh I forgot to say that", because you start direct your focus on thinking instead of talking. But I guess talking/thinking is not an "exclusive or" for some people.

I like the format of a talk to spur my interest in a certain topic. (like the TED talks)

It would be nice when every talk would be accompanied by a text that deepens the subject, so I can read more about it.

Although a talk is nice, I am always left with a feeling that it barely scratched the surface of the topic.

As a side note: pg, you are a very good writer, you should write more books, please? :)

In Europe (or at least in Belgium) driving on a manual transmission is default, automatic is rare. When you learn to drive with automatic and pass the exam, you are not even allowed to drive manual.

It is something you pick up after a couple of hours of driving and becomes second nature.

That said, I would prefer automatic, especially in traffic jams. Unfortunately it is not always an option when driving a company car.

"Side note: how freaking scary would it have been to explain to your great-great-grandfather that people would carry around computers and look at them while in the bathroom or driving - he would have been terrified of this future"

And terrified he should be, I am terrified thinking other people are not paying attention to the traffic.

If I understood correctly, those were a predecessor of the current lectures. I had no problems with audio missing. (but yes quality could have been better)

The online lectures you are talking about are the ones on youtube. They are not the same as the ones used in ml-class.org. The latter ones are in a completely different format.

It is not just a recording of a "normal" lecture...

According to the website http://cs229a.stanford.edu/ there are class meetings, according to the blogpost everything is done solitary?

Another difference with the course offered to the public is that there is an open ended project.

If he really wanted a harder class, why not take CS229 and not CS229A...

If you want something to be harder, to get more out of something you should pursue it yourself, not depend on others.

I see (online) education as a guide, not as the only source of input. Selfstudy and initiative is the most important thing.

It is enabling an improvement in "total" efficiency which in the end is the only thing that matters.

The sum of the different parts being greater than the individual components...

Born to run by Christopher McDougall

Read it in the beginning of this year when I was starting to run, very inspiring. And look, I'm still running!

It seems very weird that you need a high karma level for such a feature, no?

Phew, my monitor is not broken. Happy holidays!

Not my project, but someone who followed Stanford's online machine learning class.