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I was interested in this when I saw it posted recently, but I don't have the money for it, so I'm definitely interested in getting into the beta. Where would I even get the code th…

That's a good question. Do you think Steve's opinion on gaming is still baked into the company?

I remember being 12 years old and obsessively reading through fravia's pages into the morning in the mid-90's. On a whim, I e-mailed +orc. He responded so kindly that it had a sign…

I always thought of Opera as the quintessential engineer's browser. I switched away from Chrome a couple years ago and haven't looked back since. It's fast, has tons of extensions …

Hyperscale is a term already right? I don’t know a lot about HPC, but I think it’s already part of the nomenclature.

The full name is the "Yerkes-Dodson Law of Social Facilitation." It's this idea that a task requires an optimal amount of nervous system arousal. Too much and you get jittery, too …

The major difference is that a warrant to access a safety deposit box allows the keys for that specific safety deposit box and no other. What the FBI is asking for is the equivalen…

Fascinating! Also, I couldn't help but think of that scene from The Graduate when I first read your post.

Do you have any books or posts that you'd recommend looking at? There's a huge mountain of information I'm looking at right now. Any specific leads? I'm genuinely asking because I …

That was a great visualization. Thanks for the information lead.

But are they just cogs in a machine? The author betrays his own thoughts on the subject by discussing it that way. I order delivery all the time and have never though of the cooks …

Exactly. "Dystopian"? Hyperbole much? This person is just ordering delivery, leaving a nice tip and then making a huge assumption about the lives of the cooks and delivery people. …

Source? That sounds a little high.

Craig Venter says here[1] that Franz Och (of Google Translate fame) has done some analysis for his new company Human Longevity Inc that shows that about 50% of the genome is respon…

Ah ... you think so gwern? I would assume that most people would think that twins are incredibly similar. Or maybe I'm in an echo chamber and need to get out more.

Isn't it? Kudos to the authors for a super clear paper. The graphs make everything crystal clear. Succinct and clear graphs are oddly satisfying for me.

Sure. So here are a few of the highlights of the paper: - They looked at nearly every single twin study over the last 50 years - The combined population of the all the studies is 1…

Congrats!

Such great advice. Don't wait for permission just get started.

My big problem is the price. It's just outrageous for software that I just want to hack on something every once in a while.

The whole time I was thinking "Man, this is crazy, don't they see how that hurts productivity?" And then I thought about Europe compared to the United States. To our European colle…

Likewise! I'm curious too. Why is COBOL your main language? Bank legacy servers?

Hey Adam, I just want to say I loved the recent talks you've given. The one at Hadoop Summit with Josh Patterson was so cool as a general overview. Keep it up!

I'm actually curious, why LCD displays? Was it thought to be incredibly difficult to achieve before?

That's an insightful way of looking at it. Reagan was likely the crest of a wave rather than the start of a new one.