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That appears to be the bed width between the wheel wells. I assume it would fit width wise on top of the wheels, which is still in the bed. As to the length, not even most full siz…

The main reason for this is just fucking iMessage. It's not even just that iMessage segregates non-iPhone messages by color. It screws up video and group texts.

The Fandango scores were also higher than the Rotten Tomatoes user ratings 74% of the time. But yeah, Fandango is obviously incentivized to be biased.

I think this is a better summary of his conclusions from that same paragraph: I conclude that, even rather optimistically, it's going to take many, many deep ideas to build an AI. …

You can use EC2 in somewhat similar ways to GAE. They have Elastic Map Reduce (which runs the MapReduce side of Hadoop) and SimpleDB/S3 for storage. SimpleDB is even one of the bac…

I am more sad about the current state of android tablets. Are there any decent tablets available? When I looked recently, I found a bunch of announcements for stuff that was coming…

Sorry, you're right about the refined carbs. Also, going further along the meat lines, there was also recent research differentiating processed meats (e.g. bacon, sausage, lunch me…

The other thing to say here is that the latest research indicates that carbs may actually be a leading cause of heart disease rather than fat. For example: http://www.scientificame…

This is actually where exercise can come in to play. The author is right that recent research says that exercise is not necessarily the most effective way to lose weight. However, …

Not the API, but I went to the homepage and tried out the help bubble. The text went outside the bubble, which made it hard to read and didn't look very nice. This is Firefox 3.6.3…

Hmm, started with a vanity search and got totally irrelevant results. Then tried vanity searches with friends names. Again, bad results. Putting the names in quotes seems to do a b…

Well, I would like to see Chrome-like private browsing in Firefox. I don't like the whole shutdown the browser to go in to private mode thing. I often use private browsing mode in …

Actually, their docs claim that the limits aren't really related to the API key. The API key is just so they can contact you if they start blocking you: http://code.google.com/apis…

There was an article at UIST (a user interface conference) making similar points about 15 years ago. Here's one free version of the paper: http://research.sun.com/techrep/1995/abst…

Like the article says, anybody can make money in the food business if they do a decent job. They don't have to be the best burgers on the entire east coast. They just have to have …

Google is working with Adobe. For example, the flash player is now coming bundled with Chrome: http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2010/03/improved_flash_pl... I also mentioned this…

It seems like Adobe is already filling this niche, but it has the potential to be better than HTML/JS in couple ways. First of all, you're supposed to be able to deploy native apps…

Also, I use a laptop with no scroll wheel. There are ways to do scrolling, like clicking both buttons, but it doesn't seem to send all the scroll wheel events. So I can't even find…

Cool. There was just a post the other day on that Polyglot Chrome extension with a similar goal. That one is at: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/plpjkjplknknmhfh... The…

Exactly. The article says that Flash isn't inherently slow. Is anything inherently slow if you take time to optimize it? Why has Adobe/Macromedia taken so long to get decent perfor…

I just tried it with my old bike route to work. It actually did pick the route I used. In this case, the route is just the shortest path instead of the roads with the fastest drivi…

Everyone here is negative, but I think the general idea is reasonable (though not new). I don't know that the length should be 7 years, but something significantly shorter than ~17…

I did something similar in Java, though it was for a company so I can't open source it. FYI, I noticed that the script changed drastically between (roughly) December and January. T…

Are you saying that having a PhD will overqualify you for some positions? I have occasionally heard this claim, but I have found it to be pretty much utterly false. Almost everyone…

I read the story. It claims to be "a product of a highly focused, laborious effort to write a song that was extremely simple to sing yet musically interesting and emotionally expre…