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Totally irrelevant, but this is from 2011.

This is surprising. Not that it sold out after 10 minutes, but that Google didn't handle the load well. I wonder why - surely they expected this (if nothing else, given the perform…

I think it's interesting to point out that this is Rob Pike. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike

Your* Not sure about this, but I think it's what you mean. I googled "node broke", and didn't come up with meaningful results, so I assume it's "Your". Correct me if I'm wrong!

This is a fantastic article on "big numbers" (and discusses tetration): http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html (I think someone has posted it to HN before, which is …

This is an interesting article as well I think: http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/this-is-my-column-this-is-...