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I use the OData interface to power streamingcriterions.com, which is totally niche but still get a couple hundred hits a day. I built it to scratch my own itch, but I guess it'll s…

I'm not sure that it is (haven't done feature-by-feature comparison) but I thought it was newsworthy since it's been "coming soon" for so long.

It's relative -- among Seattle hoods, I would (anecdotally and out of my ass, of course) say there is more violent crime there than in others. I'm also a fairly big guy and I've fe…

Just a friendly mention that if your would-be neighborhood is Belltown or SLU, you may want to investigate some other options (unless of course you already have, in which case plea…

Isn't HBO already in the "writing and supporting software player" business with its HBO Go apps? It's already circumventing business like Netflix today.

I realize you're being rhetorical here, but one good way to see this is to couple the law of supply & demand with this: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kelsey-keith/designage/infog…

I certainly wasn't trying to overtly contrast--the Googler papers thread just reminded me of the MSR listing. :)

For people who want to watch great movies, Criterion is probably the best curated list of films. Makes a nice foil to the similar list of IMDB top 250 Netflix movies that was poste…

For purely non-technical (but still very educated and inspired--it helps to be well-rounded): www.newyorker.com, www.givemesomethingtoread.com, www.longform.org, and soon www.grant…

As another commenter mentioned, it will likely take months or even years to verify.

The paper's origin was that the author mailed a copy for review to some very high-level folks in the field (Cook, Mazirani, Sipser, etc). Here's the mail: Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 21:…