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>I find this attitude deeply aggravating. Europe has simply chosen a different path to the US, and to pretend that the US is superior in every way is ridiculous. I think you're misreading him. He'…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP As of the end of June 2010, Windows XP is the most widely used operating system in the world with a 54.6% market share, having peaked at 76.1% in January 200…

Not bias, but rather a prior. If you know someone quit Google, finding out they disliked a lot of things about Google doesn't give you much more information.

There are only 20 of them. function setTextValueByIndex(index) { var r_text = new Array (); r_text[ 0] = "Facilitate audience conversations and drive engagement with social currenc…

I think the motivation for this comes from people's personal experience with disk thrashing. On a desktop, getting to 100% memory usage is a big deal, because it means you're already using a lot of …

What I've noticed at Google is that there's really no comparison between teams. Different parts of the company might as well be entirely different companies, aside from a few common cultural attribute…

Think of apps more as asynchronous event handlers rather than processes. When you take an action, some app wakes up and handles the event. They are always memory resident, but that doesn't mean they a…

The point of this is that you don't need to shut them down. The android system does that for you. The idea of processes consuming resources is a mental model people developed on desktop OS's that they…

Automate as much of the maintenance as you can.

I'm just glad android seems to have passed the threshold beyond which companies have to care about it. A good android app is becoming a necessary part of any consumer cloud-based service (kindle, nook…

On the Media is my favorite for news. Frankly it's one of the only news programs where I feel like I've legitimately learned something about the situation after listening to it.

I love the personal spam filter. I can't see the rest of the slashtags being that useful for most of the searching I do, but I can see myself getting used to it. I go to wolframalpha regularly for thi…

That only works for music that sticks to a western scale though. What if you are playing blues or jazz or indian classical music?

There's nothing special about sharps and flats in that regard. Depending on your tuning system C could be different in every scale. That doesn't make it something you want to encode in your notation.

I'd prefer we just discard the concept of sharps and flats entirely, and name each of the 12 notes as an individual.

I wish I knew who made this one, but it gets even better. http://media.photobucket.com/image/calvinhobbeskidsc8/Caspia... …

Keep in mind that just because the SEO is employed there doesn't mean they are responsible for the rankings. :) In general though, I agree with you, and it will get better.

Great article. I hadn't heard of most of these before. I've added a link to my knol on backpacking: http://knol.google.com/k/how-to-backpack#view in the knots section for further reading.…

At least they aren't redirecting the dns to baidu . . .

I made an account, and logged in, but I still see the default set of stuff. Is that expected?

Saving this to read for later. I just wanted to say in advance that it's really refreshing to see a blog so well designed that I feel like I've _already_ clicked my Readability bookmarklet when I firs…

That is by far the evilest of the bunch. }:-D

You'll find that to be a big problem with any ebook reader except perhaps the kindle DX. I feel your pain though. I looked for months for an ideal ebook reader for academic papers, and concluded that …

I also found that it really helped to have a serif font, and relatively small type, say 15 lines per page in landscape mode.

Were you doing black text on white, or white text on black? Switching to the latter was what made the difference for me. I've read for many continuous hours on my phone.

Beyond that, why is a kindle better than my phone? * I'm not going to take a kindle to the bathroom at work, I am taking my phone. * The page turning is instant and effortless on my phone, not so on t…

Frankly, I don't know why someone would choose this over reading on your smart phone. (Assuming you have a smart phone.) I bought a nook, but then returned it after discovering that its pdf support su…

No, not at all. This is just talking about the granularity at which we compute metrics like "spam rate."

This is the sort of query I'm talking about: http://www.google.com/search?q=airline+tickets