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This is pretty core behavior for domain owning power users. Locating your namserver at same facility as your webhost will theoretically reduce your points of failure.

OMG, what?

Scraping data for offline processing, but certainly should not be for user-facing traffic. Cosmetic tweaks can blow up the scraper's parser, UI technologies are built on a taller stack and are prone to higher latencies and points of failure, yada yada.

And... they aren't shutting down Patent Search. Your rant is baseless.

They're not dying or anything...

$0.10/tweet? That is insane!

Exactly. How do you separate the wheat from the chaff? How do you tell when a person actually gone through learning experiences (which is how one acquires knowledge) and isn't actually just padding their resume?

+1. I am frustrated when I see discussions and demands made in the media that are fomented by SEO and marketers. They are strip miners of communities, who happily exploit loopholes for profit until no trust remains in the system.

The point is that broadcasting the same message verbatim across every medium and community. removes one's ability to tailor the message for the standards of that community.

"The transformative power of "source always included" in JavaScript is a major reason..."

Unless it's minified, in which case you might as well be running cat on a binary.

Well, upvoting a story isn't the same as "like"ing an article.

Sorry guys. :(

Could somebody make a custom shell for Android that makes it feel like Palm?

The "bubble" isn't such a bad thing with software, IMO. Running a malicious application has much worse consequences than accessing an unpopular webpage.

Yeah, I feel like I've tainted my work computer's browser history. :)

Or astroturfing...

The same comment, from two different accounts. Both related to Google products. Is this the 2012 version of "Netcraft confirms that BSD is dying"?

solsenNet 32 minutes ago | link This looks... erm ... neat. A "sophomore OpenGL term project" kind of neat. Baidu on the other hand does the maps right [0], which hardly surprising given their 20 years of head start. On a more general note, this reminds me of old Microsoft's tactics. Google should really stick to the search, but instead they throw together something that mimics competitor's feature. Something that looks more featureful and which is free, but upon closer inspection is effectively a half-ass effort, because it's an entirely different domain that's not their specialty. [0] http://map.baidu.com/?newmap=1&l=15&tn=B_DIMENSIONAL....

huhtenberg 23 hours ago | link | parent | flag This looks... erm ... neat. A "sophomore OpenGL term project" kind of neat. Wolfram on the other hand does the graphs right [0], which hardly surprising given their 20 years of head start. On a more general note, this reminds me of old Microsoft's tactics. Google should really stick to the search, but instead they throw together something that mimics competitor's feature. Something that looks more featureful and which is free, but upon closer inspection is effectively a half-ass effort, because it's an entirely different domain that's not their specialty. [0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sqrt%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B3....

Reims, France

Just figured that out. You have to disable MapsGL for that to work.

Hahaha, the Dragonlord transformation is awesome!!

Yahoo! Graffiti was like crack to me.

Another linkbaity unsourced article by Lacy.

There's quite a bit of footage of the self driving car making its way through congested areas with people and obstacles. It was more competent than many of the minivan drivers in my neck of the woods. :)

I thought that the title was a typo, and I was imagining a Prius navigating straight on through the glass windows of a strip mall restaurant. The reality is safer, but less hilarious.

Succinct, powerful, but readable syntax, but without the feelings of guilt associated with spending significant time in a high level language. At least it's that way for me. :)

M-/ in Emacs. ;)

PHP has rampant breaking changes in syntax and libraries between versions. If you're shipping something like a plugin for Wordpress, you have to deal with fragmentation up the wazoo. So obnoxious!

On the other hand, there are developments in increasing MRI sensitivity that allow them to be effective with weaker magnetic fields. Weaker magnetic fields means less power, less cooling, lower cost, and more widely available.

Really? In that tileset, bodies of water are like toner cartridge death. I bet my printouts will start looking banded and faded after a few dozen pages of it.

The watercolor tile set is beautiful.

I like that style of WM too. I tried XMonad, but eventually settled on AwesomeWM.