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> "Why is it that the folks defending copyright always pull out the "But then creators will take their balls and go home!" card? That's such a repugnant, faithless argument. Numero…

Yes, of course individuals or small groups will still create art in their free time. You can't deny however that any massive undertakings would be effectively killed. No one will i…

Google Analytics won't have the queries either: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-sec...

It sounds like you're not very familiar with the industry. One of the reasons Google's advertising programs are so successful is that they are measurable. A site can compute return…

Would you be skeptical of a chess player above a certain age as well?

For a lot of people, not having their mom switch will be considered a feature.

He must not have noticed, but in the new UI you can minimize the "Mini Calendar" on the left side. For someone with such a packed calendar the mini calendar is useless, and with it…

Hah, I had the opposite reaction. Finally a social network where I don't have to accept friend requests from my relatives =)

I sense some confusion here. Those parameters are also used by Google Analytics which the author is using on that very page. The utm parameters allow a site to track campaign infor…

I had this exact experience about four years ago. Spent way too long dealing with their buggy code, wrote our own in a few weeks and everything was much easier from then on.

That's what correlation is, no need to put it in quotes.

I probably use 'git checkout' 50-100 times a day, which I imagine is typical when you're working on several branches at once.

The mental load only lasts a day or two. After that it's all muscle memory.

Same price as a windows laptop but much cheaper to support. For anyone who's the the family tech support guy, it's almost worth buying these for your relatives just so you don't ha…

Most of the appeal for me is not the features that Go has, but rather the features that have been intentionally left out.

Yes, that would be the easier route to take for a large company with pockets as deep as Google's. I think this move is smarter than that though. Google has a knack for picking figh…

> I wouldn't say it was obvious, mainly because this was something Google did specifically to cause this There is a subtle point that many posts like this are overlooking. Google d…

Most sites are very happy to have traffic from Google. Those that aren't can simply configure robots.txt.

It's in the blog post: "Internet Explorer 8, which can send data to Microsoft via its Suggested Sites feature"

Close, but you didn't understand it quite right. Google knowingly submitted info to Microsoft to confirm a suspicion that Microsoft was using google.com search results from other u…

IE will send this data even without the toolbar.

Yes, they're both based off the open source WebKit Web Inspector (as mentioned in the second sentence on that page.)

Only because Yahoo paid the ransom.

"To be clear, this trial is completely separate from our community selection process for Google Fiber, which is still ongoing"