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Does it make more sense for +1 to be part of the browser, as opposed to the website?

Even without working for Google, I can fully appreciate most of the issues and proposed solutions. Like in any big company, only the people "deep in the trenches" even see these is…

Another way of saying the same thing is that GAE is perfectly fine if you know all the requirements of your app before you build it. In a perfect world, you know exactly what you w…

This is a beautiful piece of work. Any chance you might be able to explain the background architecture that might allow others to replicate some of this? From what I see: - extensi…

This paradox of choice is very real. The situation is no different than with laptops. You can expect certain quality standards out of Macbook's. You might be able to get something …

This post has to be taken in context of everything else that Piaw has been saying for a while: Google is an excellent place to work. It may not be as nimble as it used to be, but i…

That is very true. Google's interests are very simple to fathom: They want more people on the internet. Anything that helps (in this case making it easier to develop internet orien…

Sorry for this OT question, but does anyone know of a replacement for Omnisio ( http://www.omnisio.com/ )? They had great integration of slides and video and how you could browse t…

Yes, I've read the book, and I would recommend it. The book makes multiple claims: The first is that given the proper environment (physical & mental fitness), we can run very long …

"Born to Run" has popularized this notion that the human body evolved to run long distances. However, there is no strong proof for it. The recent discoveries from the Ardipithecus …

Now that thousands of (intelligent) people have wasted hours discussing Joel's insane article, can we all just move on? Please stop posting any more of the duct tape articles.

My sentiments exactly. Joel's article is just unnecessarily long with very little real content. There are many different ways to develop - Some people like C++, some don't, some do…

I've heard this sentiment echoed numerous times (esp. by people who love Python).Could you guys clarify more as to the different things to keep in mind while writing "good" Java? A…

I'm surprised by the comments about low salaries. From the public records, it certainly looks like Google pays somewhat higher salaries. The difference though is that there is a hu…

Yup, I filed issue #901: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=90... Seems like a serious bug, but I haven't seen any updates as yet.

The source data is linked to in the About section in the website. I don't have the original HN thread, but the blog post itself was this: http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog…

A while ago on HN, someone posted a link to the Data Disclosure site. After surfing through it for a while, we thought it would be interesting to provide a simpler view to it. Henc…

The fact that someone in Google wrote an application in lisp does not mean that lisp is now an approved language at Google. Wonder why the author came to such a conclusion.