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I have to admit I don't know this stuff first hand, but based on what I heard, it took quite a while for ITA to be fully "absorbed" into Google, during which time they didn't chang…

I'm not sure I'd call it "failed commercially at solving booking". Google stopped their work on creating a booking system after the acquisition since they were never interested in …

Those two have nothing to do with each other. Someone in that thread purely speculated and now there are 'rumors'.

Often times, if the work is critical enough, you could argue paying the 3rd party with a track record, insurance or a strict contract for delivery, support is the logical choice. S…

I think you are underestimating the amount of video that gets uploaded to Youtube. Smaller sites may be better at stuff like this but that's solely because they don't have quite th…

The CR reliability score I saw recently lumped together the power train reliability with the entertainment system jankiness. I think this makes it not as useful The JD powers ratin…

Can someone explain the computation the article talks about further? All it says is that the array will go into a chaotic state and produce seemingly random output.

Google workers.. cheap?

Unfortunately, it's the heart string-tugging anecdotes that make policies happen in the US, not data.

But the app is required for configuration, not for actually using your wifi, right? Perhaps I'm wrong.. The overlap for needing to configure your network and the internet connectio…

Doesn't Google already have a web based, but internal only, IDE? I don't know if that'd be easy to make external, but my understanding is that they've got a lot of internal users o…

What's the alternative? Not announce new features that won't perform well on current hardware? If details emerge that they could have made the 6P perform well but chose not to, tha…

I wonder if this has anything to do with the rumoured 4k Chromecast. I wouldn't be surprised if they have some interesting tech to support it they don't want to make public. Edit: …

> And exactly what assurances do we have that Google is properly vetting access to this information, given their complete lack of customer service and their historical inability to…

It's an anti pattern when it's used in a way that wasn't originally intended and causes a net loss for society. E.g, class action lawsuit against small manufacturing companies. The…

> Perhaps Nepal could improve child mortality first even if its not hipster enough for the west. Yes, the government should simply ban child mortality. Why didn't they think of som…

I've done 2 & 3. What's the best way to go about doing 1? Pointers to a good guide would be much appreciated.

As you wish, here's some Coleslaw: Awesome job Microsoft! I'm very curious to see if the larger industry embraces .Net on Linux / FreeBSD as one of the core languages. At some of t…

I'm curious to know what kind of leverage he had over the distros where it wasn't just "ask". Any suggestions on where I can find some info?

I'm a bit curious about your comment. Do you mean during development you run your code on a REPL and change portions of it , or do you mean you run code in Production in a REPL and…

I think the article is trying to say that ADHD is an umbrella term used for a range of symptoms, rather than 1 disorder. I can imagine this being true for at least some of the case…

A couple of years ago, I was away from the U.S. for a few months and thought I'd try to get some contracts online. I hadn't heard of oDesk and only knew of some others like rentaco…

What if the reason you get to have a nice vacation at a particular time of year is that you are able to join important meetings from wherever?

I really hope you see this -> Please please create a 10 min screencast showing how to use light table. May be I'm being utterly dumb and can't find this anywhere, but I've looked f…