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Why use periods between each word? I makes it look like a domain name.

So you're trying to be a Rock Star coder.

Yes, all the URL shortener does is redirect to the chart api.

The text breakdown doesn't show some of the numbers that are in the map. However, they are in the source. Here they are. United States 54.3% India 8.2% United Kingdom 4.5% Canada 3.6% Ge…

Perhaps Amazon SNS isn't the best name.

It isn't clear what this does beyond generating advertising revenue through the Google ads.

I can't see anything without creating an account. Perhaps expose some data to logged out users so they can get a better idea what the service is about. Also, you don't have any traditional method to …

You should investigate some of the events that go on. Here are some more internationally minded ones: Tokyo2point0 - web related: http://www.tokyo2point0.net/ Business In Japan - general: http://bu…

Japan is a very homogeneous society. Almost no one is religious here, so I think you'd still suffer if you don't drink because of religious reasons.

I worked in a small-medium business in Tokyo for a couple of years. The developers were primarily other foreigners, but the rest of the company was Japanese. The company never really had any drinking…

The updates to Android are pushed by the carrier, not Google.

Google created the android platform to drive forward technology and openness on the mobile. As long as people can use Google search, access GMail, and most importantly view Google ads, I doubt it's a…

That you store passwords in the first place is the problem. As a developer, I consider it to be borderline unethical to build such a system in the first place, as it is inherently insecure. Furthermo…

It doesn't look like the lego I grew up with.

Japan is conspicuously absent where you can get 1 Gbps home connection for under $60/month.

In Japan, 1Seg, a mobile broadcasting system that is built into most handsets released in the last couple of years, has seen tremendous adoption. As on 2009, 43% of mobile users reported that they ha…

I'm reminded of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqZcEwHBAk8

Link is for https, which is down, along with everything else. There is just a static top page being served now, saying the site is down, so that service says the site is up, even though it effectivel…

How well this would work for game playing bots? If this can abstract away the detection and clicking of regions, it would make building one much more approachable.

Google Docs allows users to compare revisions and link to other documents, despite the chart saying it doesn't.

Github's strength is that it allows for incredibly easy collaboration. If you want to make a change to any open source project, you just need to fork it, make changes in your copy, and send a pull re…

Heroku has a rest api. The ruby gem is just a wrapper for it.