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You could accomplish the same thing with a public static Object[] createArray(Object... objects) { ... } but doing it statically, hard-coded like this is faster. You leave it to th…

I think the real lesson is that in a company of 20,000 employees, nothing stays confidential for long... Very irresponsible behavior from whoever leaked this. Here's hoping no Goog…

Nightfall and Other Stories, Isaac Asimov My first foray into the world of sci-fi books, spurred on by my new Kindle. I have to say I'm impressed so far

"The setup lowers Google's overseas tax bill, but it also affects U.S. tax revenues as the government struggles to close a projected $1.4 trillion budget gap." It's a ridiculous no…

I think this statistic is neither surprising nor problematic. Would you really expect more than 36% of the workforce to be frequently deserving of recognition? The job of managemen…

When I saw this headline I was wondering how they managed to get pictures from Antarctica, but looking at Google Maps, it just looks like a geotagged photo-album

Which begs the question, if you search for a tree in an empty forest and nobody logs it, does it make a sound? (Lumberjack pun not intended)

From the original, the darker bar is the average time spent on the site, while the lighter one is the average number of pages viewed. Shame on boingboing for using a key-less graph…

I could be wrong, but it looks like it's used to create mini-sites, so being able to use Javascript seems more like a feature than an xss vulnerability.

I think the functionality is great, I especially like the data aggregation options that you provide. That said, I think the design needs polish. This is nitpicky, but looking at th…

On a desktop keyboard maybe, but I'd much prefer this method of input on a phone with a touch-screen keyboard

I did this until it suggested "I'ma let you finish but Beyonce had one of the..." I guess this particular phrase has been on the internet so much that it skews the machine learning…

This reminded me of a story I saw a while back about Google patenting a modular datacenter structure: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/06/18/googl... I wonder how s…

Agreed, but I wonder what kind of red tape you would need to go through to raid a data center instead (if there did happen to be a data center in Korea)

Does anybody have details on what security requirements remain to be met? I've always thought of Google as being pretty good with data security

Especially the ones that have free counterparts

It never says that it generates true random numbers, just a "better" random

It also looks like most people check HN at work on the weekdays, which is to be expected.

"Generally, computer science is concerned with questions of computational complexity: Given a particular algorithm, you want to know whether a computer can execute it quickly, slow…

"You also always have control over who can see your Connections ------ on your profile." (Emphasis added)

I personally find this article misleading (ignoring the fact that it is criticizing a 9-month old change). "No way to reconfigure this change." Having the ability to change such a …