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More like, Microsoft determined that people who chat actively on MSN messenger are linked by 6.6 degrees of separation. It's just not as interesting a story with those pesky detail…

cough racket

Wow, the web's two most obnoxious swollen egos disagree on something. Stop the presses.

Am I missing something here? According to the article, the prices have fallen or remained the same, and Apple has upgraded all the hardware.

But in this case, they happen to be right. In the absence of big news items coming from the Valley of late, TechCrunch has become a web 2.0 tabloid.

You must be new to TechCrunch.

every time a human being does not get offspring because his/her desired mate gets snagged by a more appealing specimen that's evolution in progress Ouch. Succint and harsh.

Basically any note played on an analog instrument has a set of overtones of various frequencies. If these tones were played a bit louder, you would hear a chord rather than a singl…

The best part about _why: if this guy completely loses his mind one day, no one will notice any difference.

good programmers are forced to program simply so that future generations of bad programmers can read their code. Is this necessarily a bad thing? I generally try follow the "code s…

Neat idea; unfortunate name.

This is cool and all, but what's the utility? You can already isolate individual windows and arbitrary screen regions with the built-in OS X screenshot grabber.

Dropbox stores your files locally and syncs them with the files on the cloud. Zumo stores them only in the cloud and streams them to you on demand.

And the contention is that we can observe this because certain high-precision experiments might be picking up anomalies on the scale of a Planck length, whereas we shouldn't theore…

Cast Away

This happens to me as well. Sometimes I also hear random disconnected sounds: a bell, pots clanging, voices, etc. There have been many nights where I've actually struggled to sleep…

Here's a tip: if "retarded" is the best adjective you can come up with, you've already lost the argument.

You should demand your money back.

American cows are fair game.

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Well, this certainly flies in the face of the sensationalist tone of the linked article. TechCrunch Layoff Tracker? Seriously?

One thing they're missing here is that optimization is also about optimizing resources, not just the speed of an individual request/response cycle. If each request takes 50% less t…

This just in: Paul Buchheit makes a bathroom visit. More details to come.

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Speaking from experience: any doubts you have in your mind are inconsequential. Go for it! :)