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I agree that coding is generally not "taught" in lectures or recitations, but, like the article says, we learn from other people -- other people's code, their comments on our code,…

link to "copy factory": http://shanzhaioff.com/

I hope there isn't a flash app on Facebook that is using just that to decide whether to show an employee/admin interface.. Will be quite easy to spoof the result of that page if it…

The main goal of the web app is to have a shell-like environment with files in the cloud as the "file system" (currently only Dropbox, may add Google Docs later), so we can write s…

It probably doesn't even need to be "good" code. Just study any code and think about why it is written that way, and what circumstances makes it good. Any correctly written code ca…

I think he meant the business-oriented marketplace: http://google.com/enterprise/marketplace/

Alternatively, perhaps we can let users select (follow) a set of like-minded people and make the up-votes of the people they pick weigh more on a "customized" front page. But then …

I would love to say that I made a very sophisticated automated tool for this.. but it was mostly just me hacking a simple script that lets me manually select coordinates and previe…

Done! As a bonus, you can now dynamically change the parameters while it is drawing.

Yep.. Apparently calling jquery ui's disable method doesn't disable the handler -- guess I should've read the docs... Anyway, thanks for pointing it out. I will try to fix it when …

Other easter eggs: http://www.google.com/search?q=anagram http://www.google.com/search?q=ascii+art

The video doesn't say much about what the app does exactly, but it sounds like they targeted a really good niche. Who knew an app for finding shoe boutiques would have so much dema…

As confirmed by wiki's twitter account: http://twitter.com/#!/wikipedia .. and the thousands of tweets coming in about it.

Unless he meant the stock - it did go down a bit in the afternoon today. =p

From what they have on the wiki, it sounds like it may not necessarily slow down the performance by that much. It looks like they are really only putting a web frontend on top of e…

The idea does sound interesting - so it looks like they are trying to reduce the amount of network handshaking by imposing a stricter isolation. I am not sure I am convinced by the…

Has any one heard anything about the Kindle Development Kit? Looks like they are still in private beta. I wonder if there will be Kindle apps (and app store??) coming any time soon…

Sounds like there could be a trade-off between using resources on your own server to keep track of these analytics versus just having Google do it. But then maybe it is insignifica…

Hm.. has any one hacked up some fancy visualizations using their framework yet?

Looks like social gaming really is the "big thing" this year. At least that's what Google seems to think.