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I love services for app notifications but despair that there are so many -- having a management layer on top of all of them sounds awesome!

This is such an awesome, anachronistic mix of the shiny new and the internet of yore. It's a shame MUDs expect you to be constantly interacting, I keep being slow and having them t…

I hope they publish a post-mortem when all is resolved, it'd be an interesting read. I remember hearing that they had a fairly complex mix of MySQL, Riak, and Varnish caching, in w…

> You still have the same email client you paid for, you weren't paying for future features. Although I agree, if you look through the other Sparrow threads there's a strong theme …

I wonder what the false-negative rate of this algorithm is. 99% (which I assume is the true-positive rate) is certainly impressive for such a simple test, though. It would be all k…

... which still doesn't excuse them not running with the idea and continuing to improve. Sparrow did; maybe I should have said "shifting further ". (And yes, Gmail popularized conv…

> Gmail is pretty much perfect There isn't any room for improvement in Gmail? Really? It's still using the same basic design of every email client since forever (labels/mailboxes a…

Wow. Hopefully this will give Gmail the kick in the pants it needs ... the interface really hasn't changed that much since the early days. (Well, of course it's been prettified a b…

I was hoping for less "here's how your commit message should be formatted", and more "here's what your message should say". Though at least the blog it links to[1] discusses the la…

I don't think it's a symptom of hype in the Valley. (The high rents in general, sure. But not the hacker hostels.) As others mentioned, the whole point of being in the Valley in th…

"a program is without value before it is used by an end user for something valuable" Nice snippet of advice there. Also the rest of Trygve's original post is an excellent reminder …

I agree with the last paragraph in the article -- it's pretty crazy to see Google anointing this software update as special and rushing it out so much faster than normal Android up…

The title is a bit silly, of course science has advanced since the 1500s and you need to focus on one sub-field to make a contribution. But I think the point towards the end is a g…

It seems to ... generate different robot images, based on the names you type in, I guess?

Maybe this person hadn't had much chance to network beyond their coworkers or people otherwise connected to the company? Depending on how they got fired, I could see how that might…

Sure, 'twas obvious sarcasm, my bad. But there are good reasons for China's economy to grow sustainably for some time yet (emerging middle class, manufacturing going more high-tech…

Sad but true. I love PHP, but it's like the Internet Explorer of (web-)server side languages. First there was the ordeal of dragging folks off 3 and onto 4, then 4 to 5, now 5.2 to…

I think you might be missing the point, though. The argument is that we're collecting exponentially more data about the brain, but that data doesn't translate directly to understan…

Um, no. Japan's economy has been stagnant for close to twenty years now. China's economy has plenty of growth left in it. Although you're right that much of the scared-of-China cro…

Agreed. These are the same Chinese authorities that refuse to publish key economic statistics, or blatantly make them up. They also have trouble keeping track of government debt --…