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Nice PR hit for Goog! > Employees at Google, for instance, are offered the chance to nap at work because the company believes it may increase productivity. What percentage of emplo…

not entirely randomly, but processing stuff that's been "on your mind" and not packed away in long-term memory. I imagine it (non-scientifically) as the brain's trash compactor, fi…

Contactually has a creepy mannequin, though.

I'm fairly certain that Shuttleworth is coming to realize he'll never recoup his investment in Canonical, and his goal is to drive Ubuntu into the ground so he can close up shop an…

You credibly describe the flaws of the prison system, but you don't offer any alternatives. Frankly, given the choice of a rock and a hard place, it is better to have a criminal in…

To quote the patron saint of Hacker News, patio11: If you don't like it, maybe you aren't in their target market. Do you think you are in MySpace's target market?

"Hey friend, it looks like you are using Opera. Beware, pal, that we don't go to the opera down here on the ranch, so there may be rough-riding ahead! Try one of these nifty browse…

Ctrl-Shift-C in Chrome, or Ctrl-Shift-J in Firefox, will give you a programmable computing environment more powerful and expressive than a 20-year old Atari, Commodore, or Apple.

Those are different. Phishes strive for perfection, because they win as soon as you log in to the fake site. These "long con" 419 scams need to rebuff intelligent/savvy people and …

I get that deployment is easier when it is vendor hosted, but this really should be a local app using local storage, withe maybe transient server-side storage for syncing between m…

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3989803 "Kindergarten Teacher Earns $700,000 by Selling Lesson Plans Online" May 2012

What's not their ambition? http://cloud.google.com/products /compute-engine.html /cloud-storage.html /big-query.html /more-products.html

It is ACID. It is a DBMS. It's not a Relational DBMS.

In order to keep it to what purpose? To make money .

Wow, so the trains don't run on time, so they make the time run on the trains?

How does Google get satellite view data without suppliers?

With strechy jersey sheets with deep sides, it doesn't matter if you apply them 90-degrees rotate.

Why is it obvious that memory foam is cheaper per cubic inch than a spring assembly?

`man bash` , search for " You can also search https://www.google.com/search?q=bash and follow links to "Documentation" xargs echo line 1 > line 2 > EOL line 1 line 2 $ cat line 1 >…

Aha! In zsh "=(cmd)" does that, but "=" doesn't work in bash. "<(cmd)" works everywhere... why did zsh trick me with "="?

S/he could ask him at 10:15 each morning while he eats a snack, like any executive assistant does.

Which browser is the shining beacon of light for HTML5?

Eh, seems plausible that Jamie got >$150 worth of return for his advertising spend on the survey. I'm sorry, did you think that there was science happening in the HN self-promotion…

What does fault have to do with self-reliance? Fault is in the past, solving problems is in the future.

Gold mine. Under CAN-SPAM, spam is worth $500 per message, if you can identify the sender.