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The red linkage graphs would be much more comprehensible with edge bundling[1]. As it is, you get a ton of red lines that are hard to decipher. In order to show emphasis, some of t…

tednaleid, you seem to be dead. Perhaps posting a link to wikipedia with no other content auto-triggered something.

Care to elaborate?

// In Java, all instances of Object are also a monitor. // See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_%28synchronization%29 Foo myMonitor = new Foo() // To "enter" a monitor, you us…

You could test that the logging and parsing are in step, which then reduces the developer time to "Doh, red test" and a simple fix.

I think the author is trying to make a poorly articulated argument that the _intent_ of G+ is not to "kill" Facebook, but instead improve Google's targeted advertising capabilities…

How about the version of Siri that existed before being subsumed by Apple? I had never heard of it, though it seems that the tech was relatively the same.

> The relationship soured after they came to doubt his reincarnation credentials and found that his claims of cancer were false. As someone who knows very little of Buddhism, what …

Private browsing won't stop google from logging anything. It will make it so your browser doesn't remember what you did, but it doesn't stop the authorities from knocking.

Maybe sugar is toxic. I don't know (and there seem to be some pretty reasonable opinions both ways). However, there is a line in the article that really stands out to me: "If Lusti…

http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/ is the non-print version for anyone that ran into problems with the javascript on the print page.

Assuming the article is correct (and the video seems to back that up), I wouldn't even consider this protesting. Yelling over Clinton's speech, holding up signs, harassing people g…

I was going to mumble something about correlation != causation, but I decided to track down the paper first ( http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/195/5/408 ). The authors didn'…

"Them darn kids aint learnin cuz they aint tryin!" Let's consider the assumption that between 36% and 45% of all undergrad students are slackers. Sure, a bunch of students aren't l…

1) "After four years, 36 percent of students did not demonstrate significant improvement, compared to 45 percent after two." Thats 36% of students who spent four years without impr…

I'm not seeing it. I think this argument boils down to "you have a lot of devices; everything in the cloud makes your stuff available everywhere all the time". Besides the fact tha…

I assume the reason to stop is due to a feeling of guilt. Instead of considering human influence as a part of nature, many people consider it to be some sort of perversion. So inst…

Presumably the already late Java 7/8 will be further delayed.

"Crash course" doesn't explicitly mean non-technical. It could have included an overview of the encoding algorithm that doesn't go into perf improvements most commonly used.

The list of things to know about JPEG includes what the acronym means and how it is pronounced. If you're looking for a technical description, this isn't it.

Wait, science isn't creative? Someone go tell Einstein that his bizarre, nonsensical ideas about the universe can't be correct. Warn Galileo that thinking outside the box is anti-s…

Because Diaspora is open-source, it attracts this sort of "look at how bad the code is" attention. I'm willing to bet that the first prototype of yahoo/google/facebook all had terr…

The small things really do matter when dealing with fickle users. I wonder, though, how much of the 17% might be due to the placement of the checkbox. Putting it below the credit c…