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Simplifying creating an account on behalf of someone else could help, it seems. Then the author could likely have helped out the woman directly, leveraging the trust accrued by her…

What are some examples of messy Python projects from Google?

http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-... http://duckduckgo.com/faq.html#results

"Star analysts who change firms suffer an immediate and lasting decline in performance." This sounds a lot like "regression to the mean", that is, people performing better than the…

Sounds pretty cool although the project's homepage doesn't give a hint of a publicly available version: http://dub.washington.edu/projects/reform The main innovations seem to be th…

Both Google and Bing seem to handle it: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycom... http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombi... Are there so…

Having access to more wealth gives people more faith that the government will be around a long time, will not do crazy things with the currency. That's not the same thing as the cu…

It seems like this in particular applies to most government-issued currencies as well (except that they have very good marketing and market share). Each currency itself has no intr…

How do you decide who you're going to court?

Wired article with more details: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-07/6/japanese-artis... The data set referenced in the credits: http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLColl…

No objects = no structs?

A couple people have mentioned the query plan changing in the middle of the night. Is the scenario a single query getting executed two different ways by the same running system? Or…

Wave was developed inside Google. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave

That sounds like a paraphrase of a quote from Whistler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler#R...

This basically exists for source code now: http://www.google.com/codesearch

The Stack Overflow discussion points out that the patent hitting rollover menus was going to soon be (and is now) expired: "A long, legal way to say this patent is public domain on…

There's no irony in advocating using a richer array of types in a dynamically-typed language. In fact, static vs dynamic typing doesn't seem apropos here since it's also common in …

"I prefer to uses dashes rather than %20 as it looks cleaner and is more easily understood by the non-technically versed visitor." Isn't "+" the standard alternative, also pretty r…

They do mention the conferences although not in this light. Interesting.

What does overall US internet usage look like over the same period?

I guess apophenia's alway ironic when there really is a pattern because then you'd have meta-apophenia? (It seems it'd be surprising if there weren't seasonal effects, eg, students…

Parody of that site: http://whatinthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/

Does the dip in NFLX around noon EST correspond to this? http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:NFLX