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The Ipad issue which is gorgeous as well, actually has a video where they do confirm that they had a lot of the content already done before and they pulled in all-nighters as soon as they heard about his death to put it all together.

Its not always the right thing as there are years of issues/corner cases that have been resolved.

I wonder why they even have the "I am lucky" or even the Google Search button as tyrping even a letter takes me to the results page.

This and many of such psychological effects are described brilliantly in Dan Ariely's book Predictably Irrational. Amazon link : http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expande...

He also talks about all the experiments he did to support such claims.

The main reason unit tests are useful: catching regression bugs.

Some good tips here.

http://calnewport.com/blog/category/tips-notetaking/

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I think this is cool, but profit per employee would be more interesting.

Although this is not still available for India, Bing maps has had this from about a year now.

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Love the comment on the picture :)

Yahoo seems to be rising incredibly fast. Its greater than 50% now.

Again as a poster mentioned above, this has also been available from atleast 4 years. It seems that they have done a good job bringing it all together and people are atleast exposed to these now.

Microsoft already has that and they are much better, it syncs with Exchange and so on.

The article is pretty accurate, though I do not agree with the use of the term “stupidity”. Following is how I view the evolution of a student:

1. BS: This is the time when students read pre-digested information. 2. MS: They continue to read pre-digested information. In addition, they also start reading information directly from the source (papers). Also, get a brief taste of what it means to contribute to the field of knowledge 3. PhD: Students should read solely from the source (only papers). Further, it is payback time. After having benefitted from all the knowledge that others created, they are now required to produce knowledge.

The reason it takes research 5-7 years has nothing to do with how long it takes to answer the thesis statement. Instead it has to do with how long it takes for a student to become “mature in research”. In other words for them to understand that their job is: • Identify problems, solutions to which are relevant and challenging (the solutions can serve a purpose or can simply possess aesthetic appeal). • Create solutions and document them for everyone else to benefit from (papers and more papers) • Mentor young students to embrace research • Teach digested information with a hint of the appeal of science and research

Confronting a significant problem (not an incremental addition) is daunting, I would not say it makes a student look stupid. I would say it shows the opportunity and need that a field exhibits.