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Not that disturbing. They ask for these permissions when you install them.

I think the verbosity complaint here isn't about the length of the name, it's about having to repeat the type and generic arguments.

Do something like the Google Collections Library does:

    HashMap<String, Integer> foo = Maps.newHashMap();

The return type of newHashMap is determined by the type of foo, so you don't need to repeat the generic types in angle brackets.

  public static <K, V> HashMap<K, V> newHashMap() {
    return new HashMap<K, V>();
  }

http://google-collections.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/i...

(I'm not a fan of Java myself, but there are some tricky ways to cut down on its verbosity)

Any explanation of why this happened?

Strange - that didn't appear for me.

Similar project: http://arborjs.org/

Cool Demo: http://arborjs.org/halfviz/#/the-abominable-snowman

I used arbor.js a a few months ago to make a graph of my facebook friend's connections, and it was really easy.

There's something similar in Google Maps, with geotagged Panoramio photos stitched together into a 3D scene.

If the photos are dense enough, there's enough information to stitch together the photos into a scene you can jump around. It's really cool!

EDIT: Here's a scene in Sydney:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

Searching http://www.bing.com/search?q=donald+knuth, I see the freebase integration, but I don't see anything other than search results and ads at the bottom of the page. What am I looking for?

My finger

It's just that it's not really relevant what you thought this page was

Excellent!

I disagree about installer options for caps lock. It's very simple to find the option once you've installed it, and there's no need to slow down all the other people during the installation stage who will never remap anything.

It's really important to have short installation times - if you want people to convert to your operating system, make it easy for them.

As a dev, it'd be great if vim, git, and ruby were included with an install, like how OS X does.

When I boot up, I always get a message saying

Disk Drive UUID=blablablablablablablabla-blabl-blabla-bla could not be found.

Wait for mounting, or continue?

This message is scary and gives me no actionable information (what's the uuid of my cards? I don't know!)

Fix the 'Preferences'/'Administration' split in the gnome menu options. Most of the apps I find in there could be described as "Administrative Preferences", so I have no idea where to look for anything.

Examples: Samba is in Administration, but Network Connections is in Preferences.

Login screen is under Administration, and Startup Applications are under Preferences.

The split between Administration and Preferences is really artificial, and not helpful for dividing settings.

Don't you worry about getting stuck at a local maximum of productivity?

Too bad that pi is wrong.

http://tauday.com

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I interned at Google Sydney over the summer, and I really enjoyed it. They're always looking for interns.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/

Thank you! :)

Doesn't work on my new Thinkpad T510, running Ubuntu and Chromium 9.0.

I know it has an accelerometer (I've seen the bundled Windows software use it), but I don't know where the API to access that data is.

    MapQuest still has the greatest market share

link? I've never heard this

Hell, the iPhone doesn't even have the concept of 'files'.

Any public-facing Java server affected by this bug that accepts floating point numbers from the user as a string can be hung by this bug.

This is going to be a big problem.

How do you get libnotify to work over SSH?

It is pipelined, it isn't parallelized.

You don't get the luxury of revision control with engines.

It sounds like you'd love CoffeeScript