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Are you referring to space-filling curves?

Developers often undercharge for various reasons. And as demand rises with the developer shortage, it's likely developers won't raise their rates fast enough to follow demand. What…

How is Go's websocket support? I have been thinking Go might be a good choice for a websocket proxy, like node.js is used in Juggernaut ( http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/80/ ).

Emotive resonance, mental imagery, branding.

How is that different that Glenn Beck going after Google in "unaccountable ways"? ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/17/glenn-beck-google-s... , http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/…

amber.js had a nice feel to it -- ember.js, not so much.

What's the best option for using websockets with Python? WSGI doesn't support it ( http://librelist.com/browser//flask/2010/9/1/flask-and-webso... ). gevent is an option ( http://b…

All you need is the coach calling the plays and one high-paid player to have a bad day, like the quarterback. "Any given Sunday," right?

The NFL's lawyers stated the NFL competes in the "entertainment marketplace" ( http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?renderfor... ) and operates as a single entity, no…

Anyone else get the feeling that all of this "hacker" stuff in the media is serving to raise the profile of "hackers" and position them as the new "terrorists" in an effort to crea…

What data sources does Facebook use to trigger the email? And are emails manually approved before they go out? If so, does that mean a Facebook employee looks at the data source th…

What about Facebook? A few weeks ago I had a situation where Facebook contacted me about a job, and it appeared that Facebook may have been reading (or at the least mining) private…

Google absolutely is an arbiter of your page's reputation -- you can see the 0-9 logarithmic scale on Google's Toolbar. In the early days of Google/PageRank, the SEO world was abuz…

Google is a private company that controls your site's reputation via PageRank -- assuming most of us have a personal site/blog, how is this that much different?

It may be related to the +1 stuff, or they may need to clear the way so it can be used for a new purpose.

Yeah, the trick to getting some people to go along with something is getting them to think it's their idea. Leaving parts out so they can provide input and fill in the gaps is a wa…

Is it the case that some people only respect and respond to fear? So Jobs, rather than waste time trying to figure out what makes every Apple employee tick (which wasn't a practica…

You can place bets on professional wrestling ( http://www.covers.com/articles/articles.aspx?theArt=228164 ), and I doubt Vegas would mind. Moreover there have been several politica…

While it is illegal to fix sporting events for gambling purposes, evidently you can fix sports for entertainment purposes. The NFL's lawyers stated the NFL competes in the "enterta…

I'm referring more to the marquee players whom are in position to control the outcome of a game. Presumably directives would come from the owner and the deals would be made between…

I wonder how much this quest for storylines has seeped into professional sports. It seems like more and more the NBA and NFL are manufacturing/assisting storylines rather than conc…