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On a related note, I have always found this fascinating: How many n * "great" grand parents do you have? Up to 2^(n+2) (Assuming an ancestral tree (as opposed to a graph) (i.e. no …

Look at the source code. ~7000 lines of javascript -> anywhere from a month to a year, depending on how good/fast you are.

If you accidentally remove yourself as the last admin of a Facebook group, it becomes impossible to close the group. The bug manifests itself as follows: 1. A group can only be rem…

I didn't want to know. Who at TechCrunch has something to gain by their success?

I took his Information Theory course at U of T. He was a brilliant guy. I remember him young and full of life. This is shocking and very sad.

Roll your own.

If the numbers in these charts are relative to the total number searches on Google, then it could just mean that the ratio of programming searches to non-programming searches is de…

Apparently, this method of dissemination is most effective when the vines grow on an especially tall breed of Redwood.

Yes, but before Google Closure, the internet was "open source" by default. I mean am using "open source" as a strict antonym to "closed source" rather than in the legal sense. With…

While closure is itself open-source, the compiled output it generates with advanced optimizations enabled is obfuscated beyond recognition. A top-level function may get renamed to …

Found this floating around. Interesting to note that AdMob (to be sold to Google for $750M, as everyone knows), used Ext JS (before closure was released obviously). Wondering if an…

It was written by this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ak5Lr3qkW0 An illustrative image of who he is: http://onemansblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/chris-lang...

Betsy, my trusty 6-year-old T41 died on me today. She wasn't much of a looker, but she was built like a tank and always did what she was told. Betsy gave me a good scare on a coupl…

I just think the whole notion of borders on screens is very limiting. A digital screen is like digital real estate and I want to be able to expand it more organically than I am cur…

To any hardware hackers in the audience, I ask you this: Is it really technologically impossible to create screens without borders? If not, can someone please invent one already? T…

A year's worth of xvid movies on something the size of a keychain.

And yet, in a different blog post, he intellectually beats the sh*t out of an 80-year-old man: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/george_shollenberge... 42 comments. To which…

The future is annoying.