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You know this is a special pet peeve of mine. I have stopped myself several times from complaining about this very For a period of a few years, a few years ago, I started shopping …

Apple Engineer Talks About New 2016 Macbook Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSC_UG5_kU

Here is an insider point of view of the reason Tim Cook missed his sales goals as an Apple engineer describes it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXuVAi2bHdA

Congratulations on seeing the opportunity and quickly moving to do something about it. It is unique enough at first sight that you got early coverage in the press, which is very he…

Just curious: What kind of a demand is there for a pipes-kind of product or even a customizable/searchable rss/feed integrator? How much would a typical user be willing to pay for …

A few days ago, in a moment of 6-degrees of youtube, I came across a flat earth video. Out of curisoity to see what their beef was, I watched one. It was interesting. One of the cl…

OK. But I am curious how it maps a phone number to a carrier. My understanding is that carriers do not publish the list of their customer phone numbers. It seems like textbelt does…

Most of my Prolog experience was in academics - for my own research as well as for maintaining some existing packages. But I did get to use it outside as well. There are many cases…

I have used Lisp, Scheme, Prolog (and multiple dialects of each) for extended periods in large projects. Each was a pleasure to work with. They all have their own advantages. I am …

Hello, I haven't read the book but I am planning to. I caught the last few minutes of your interview on NPR the other day. You said you built the FB Exchange. I made a mental note …

This. I have given similar demos. You first explain what you are going to do. Before the demo, they go all go into "no, it is impossible. I have been in this business for 20 years.…

There is no other dependency in the encoder/decoder functions so there is no point of failure there. Those functions were developed a long time ago and have not changed. They work …

We have been doing this in all of our web applications for over a decade now. Essentially, whenever there is an error, we don't just display the error message as-is. All the techni…

> My view, which I've held for many decades now, is that glib and frivolous invocations of Hitler, or Nazis, or the Holocaust, are a kind of forgetting. So true. I have myself obse…

> When she was at Google, Mayer oversaw the approval of each daily homepage “doodle.” I love this new career path. Beats working years just to advance to manage your old team. Now …

Some people caught on earlier to the direction she was going (i.e., down). It was so alarmingly clear that some journalists even floated the idea that she may in fact be an agent o…

Good points. I agree completely. Yahoo has also gone from a genuinely useful and relevant aggregator to a full-blown click-bait shop. Perhaps this is how she thought Google makes i…

New emojis !!! :-) I am looking forward to when they release the version where they are generated on the spot with their new GPU improvements.

Let's not go to what I think they should do. But for so much resources and combined talent, I would expect more than new sets of emojis. They way they were dishing it out was as if…

I didn't know about Google voice search, but I am betting it was just a voice interface to a normal search. Nothing like answering questions, keeping contexts, etc. like they were …

What? They can't wait to send it over later when you actually do use it?

Oh, no, Google Deflate has started... I watched the Goggle I/O event for 10 minutes. First, they talked about how they copied Siri. And now they are talking about how they copied A…

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What is with cb.vu? It takes you to the shell prompt...