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They are infinitely divisible

I think the idea is that you can move the threshold on when to implement in Fortran/C(++) since you only have a '1x-5x slowdown' for most common application compare to the 20x-5000x slowdown with R/Python/Matlab/..

Electricity powered bicycles are not that rare here in Denmark, they look like this:

http://www.ecykler.dk/dame/863-raleigh-society-da-n7-elcykel...

which is not particularly more heavy than your average bicycle. They are mostly used by elderly ladies and heavy-set women, so the Tesla marketing aspect is not huge.

The first few chapters of

ET Jaynes: 'Probability Theory: The Logic of Science': http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf

Are great (and free) as a thorough introduction to bayesian reasoning.

That's just glib. People use lots of bitcoins on silk road every day with no interest in speculation. Bitcoins are a real currency with value backed by the interest in silk road products.

If you can only look at bitcoins from the viewpoint of turning a quick buck, then you are not able to see a substantial part of the elephant.

My guess is that bitcoins are mainly used for college students' and drug hobbyists' $50 purchases of LSD and the like on silk road and not for big transactions.

How far back does your score data go?

If you have worked a lot with R you won't be surprised that anything is faster than R

It is possible here in Denmark. There is a very safe and unique ID for everyone, the kicker is that it costs $0.60 per user/year to utilize.

It takes a hell of a lot of $50 websites to pay an average programmer's salary

Exactly, OP does not understand the role RAM plays in computers.

It is a disappointment for me to see the link get so many points in this community where you would expect the baseline of knowledge of technology to be 'above the average'.

Static. On this site I host mostly huge-ass html files (about 1 MB per request) with apache 2 and mod_deflate :-)

There is also a wordpress site and another database-request-heavy site with 500 requests a day.

The problems I had was that the access.log and error.log quickly ate up the 5GB space of the micro instance :-) Causing mysql to stop operating and me to scratch my head for a few minutes.

5GB is not a lot .. you want ruby1.9 with the default setup? That will be 180MB, and so on :-)

Traffic on an EC2 micro instance for a website I run: http://i.imgur.com/bR6I8.png

It's a small point to make but there are no cat videos on my small corner of facebook :)

A lower bound for latency to the 'other side of the earth':

(20 000 km) / the speed of light = 66.712819 milliseconds

http://www.google.dk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&...

I have never seen this attitude

I think the main purpose would be for Google to target ads very specifically like facebook does now.

List of communities:

https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoResources#Communit...

Mailing lists:

https://www.djangoproject.com/community/ on the right

Sizes of communities:

reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/django - 4,181 readers

http://www.reddit.com/r/rails - 1,994 readers

http://www.reddit.com/r/rubyonrails - 921 readers

Stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/django 20k tagged

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ruby-on-rails 40k tagged

On Facebook you buy ads for ~$1+ because you can set target demographic to something as specfic as "women; 42-47 years old; looking for relationships with other women; with a degree in biology or computer science; attened Harvard; Works at IBM; who likes horseback riding or skiing"

Imagine if google knew BOTH your search term and your complete personal history. Then the ad price and conversion would increase enormously.

That is what Google is trying to get a piece of.

Strictly speaking, everything we see happened in the past :)

I have a hard time changing functionality of the alt key between alt and meta. I Terminal.app I just go to preferences and it is there. Here it takes a little more..

     but it's focused on just 25 spots on the front page each day

You can get 35k views in a day from getting to place 93.

and you can get 8k views in a day from the 175-largest subreddit

I'm not sure enough people on reddit are on twitter for this to be a big hit

more programming subreddits: http://redditlist.com/dir/856

and programming language subreddits: http://redditlist.com/dir/1785

You can add any missing subreddits

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Thanks, added

You can add languages at the bottom of the table and more general reddits at the parent node (programming)

Drama

It is funny CS enabled Valve to make a ton of money eventually

Valve has Steam from which they take 30% of any game sale. So they will never hurt for cash. They can give away every game they ever make and still make a killing from selling others' games because they have the most popular and best working platform.

Valve is now in the content delivery network business and just happen to have a department that produce video games.

This looks ridiculously expensive for such low traffic numbers for a free app