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The website loads in 9 seconds (Chrome 50), the processing of the (peg$parseKeyword) functions takes 4.5 seconds of time during loading which causes the gap in the waterfall. One l…

I have been able to order a taxi with my mobile phone since the first day i got a mobile phone. The Supreme court decided not to hear the case last year ( http://www.reuters.com/ar…

I got to see the Saturn V rocket at the Johnson Space Center on Saturday. It is the most incredible piece technology i have ever seen. Luckily I was standing next to a guy whose fa…

The URL should be under the full control of the domain. 1.) The browser can offer the ability to (right click) and shorten a URL or lengthen it. A HTTP standard would provide this …

If the HTTP spec added 2 new VERBS (SHORT, LONG) as a method of shortening and elongating URLs then many things could be done. 1.) The browser could pro-actively lengthening the UR…

My opinion is there has been a failure of IT to realize that mobile is completely different from everything else and we continue to leverage desktop technology in the mobile world.…

BitCoin, the currency of Men... A brief glance at the names yielded almost no women names.

I lived in china for 2.5 years and american's are characterized by its celebrities. In the beginning, i spent most of my lunch time conversations explaining that... No i do not own…

I have a question that no one i think has asked. Do you think Facebook's "search" capability was born out of their work with the government? When it first came out everyone was tal…

When you are not open about letting people into your market; it is not easy to get out of that market either. i have lived in china for 3 years so i would be cheating to answer thi…

There is no solution for credit card fraud because the credit card companies do not pay the bulk of the fraud that happens. I have been the subject of fraud both as a merchant and …

Agreed, about the pollution levels. My personal view is that the summer is far more depressing (heat, muggy, pollution) then the air in the winter. After 3 years in beijing, most B…

As a westerner in beijing, i think everyone is affected the same by air pollution, though the difference is the "choice" of being here vs. not. You can see first hand the differenc…

I am not sure i would consider this good news and if the past 50 years are any indication, China is not going to take action based on the will of the outside world

As i arrived in beijing today, i looked out the window and saw the sky completely gray. Having spend two years in Beijing, this site is not uncommon. I remember in the summer of 20…

I have to wonder about the testing results that were obtained. Testing the improvements of optimizations need to be done carefully; you need to make sure capture sufficient data to…

Visit this page to see the length of downtime -> http://www.websitetest.com/ui/tests/50c922b17a6c8757bb000005 . The test will run every 10 minutes for the next 10 hours. Testing is…

An old bad idea -> Many years ago i thought up an idea of creating a FEC - A self contained unit that would convert heat from a forest fires, etc... into energy. The units would be…

Now you mention it, i do, but i remember they rarely mentioned AOL's name. they would just say. Enter keyword *.

Facebook definitely had a large user base, but twitter was still relatively small. Also for the mass market, you need advertising and reinforcement of the product. The free product…

There is one thing that twitter and facebook have that no one else in the history of... well... anything i can think of. > They have an unlimited product placement budget. Every TV…