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My dad works for MSI - he kept his job, and a few people he knows at the mobile one kept theirs. I know layoffs are fairly common, although it's possible that is true for most other large companies.

1:00-1:15 or so. "Find information about you." Heh heh, well that part certainly works now.

I think it's perfectly fine his view changed from '05 to now about the use of Facebook.

What was the "more" to the story? I'm interested.

That's possible. I wonder what the reason is, or if this Youtube thing isn't telling the whole story.

For indie developers...well, who knows. There might be a lot of finicky things with handing over you game to Google+. Becoming the new Kongregate? I sort of hope that stays outside of Google.

Moreover I feel like this goes against the whole the of Google+, the majority of my friends hardly post substantial things to begin with; I don't think this will change their behavior much.

So this issue has gotten to the "it just happens and we're not sure why?" The below comment (same depth level) is kind of the intuition I had, your post gives some reasons why, but I wonder if anyone knows the ground causes, or if that's as low level of abstraction possible at this point.

Sort of related: has there been any evidence as to why sleep deprivation kills you? A friend and I were hypothesizing about it once, although neither of us are particularly knowledgeable about biology so it was a bunch of probably wild guesses.

Are sales higher in the UK or something? If not, I'm not sure why they would only launch them in the UK.

I remember this one...

...it sure is interesting, especially that soak test or whatever that looks for leaks. So is the "preserving life time" idea, really. Although a lot of this, as the article points out is just for independent games.

I felt the hating on academic papers was a bit over the top, although it's possible his claims could be a little bit accurate. Anyone know more on this?

I would add more than just writing - as he touched on, all communication skills. And yeah, definitely not for only computer science majors. Any person needs to work on their verbal communication skills as well!

I wouldn't be too quick to write all cops off as bad. There are definitely a good number of "good" cops. We should make sure not to stereotype policemen because a few of them do something idiotic.

I think a big problem with a lot of government positions or other legal positions are that a noticeable (hence this situation) percentage of the people are power-hungry, or have a chip on their shoulder.

Which results in unspeakable, completely illogical results like this - torturing someone to feel like you have power, and then being able to get away with it because of an obfuscating and broken legal system, filled with good law people and bad law people.

That sounds like an incredible waste with the overhead. I absolutely don't understand it. I think people in those power positions really need to stop treating the whole structure like a black box and realize it shouldn't be that damn hard to send some RC cars to Iraq to save lives.

This is nice. It's always been tough to explain quickly to friends what MapReduce does and how it extends to things like Hadoop, without extending to the abstractions with keys and values and the like.

This is a bit ridiculous, and confusing, but it's not as bad as a lot of other fashion website things.

I'd say about 34 right now, once you account for occasional distraction. I usually have trouble focusing (on anything) for more than 3 or 4 hours at a time without a break.

Poor guy. Someone should give him a chance at a lab or something.

I'm sure (if he hasn't already) he could definitely go to a few public schools (some of the rather worse ones, say in urban L.A. or something) to see how they work out. Might give him good ideas. It's a vital step to experience that stuff first hand.

Most unfortunate, but letting a complete stranger into your house with VALUABLES was never the best idea, moreover, with a company that hasn't said anything about this kind of issue before. I suppose this system has worked, but it's beyond me how you could ever trust a stranger to live in a place that you live in regularly and store many valuables in.

I want to sympathize with the victim, but it's somewhat hard to given the circumstances. In any case, AirBnB should suck it up, fix this one situation, then go into full throttle with trying to come up with a plan to prevent future things of this sort.

Where do Flash games come into this? I'm not very familiar with the development of a flash game but some guy in this article claims "Flash will disappear" or something. I assume this means whatever source the games have will just be compiled into some other sort of file compatible with HTML5? Or am I missing something completely?]

I think it would be useful in some contexts, if a celebrity figure or some business's page says something someone doesn't like. I imagine the social factors behind it would make most people probably not use it with their friends - if it was something like "Broke my leg" a person would probably just write a comment of sympathy rather than click dislike.

Although you never really know with these things. The way I see it, why the heck not?

Another one added to the NP-hard list, mhm.

Maybe some things to clear stuff up:

NP-complete is a subset of NP-hard. NP-complete is entirely in NP, not all NP-hard are in NP.

It kind of sucks that people can't just treat it as is - a game, and go with it, but whatever...a cool idea, nonetheless.

I for one think this kind of mindset is ridiculous, only led by stereotypes of gamers and a general ignorance towards the video gaming community.

First of all, the question being posed is sexist, it only asks about "men over 30", which tells me there must be a stereotype about "girls not being able to game" or something ridiculous.

Their laughs disgust me, and I'm a bit scared at how many people their opinions influence per day.

Heh, after a failed deal with Groupon this came about, apparently.

It'll probably fly better, too, since it'll integrate with the rest of the google services, and help google use us as a product...

Now only for it to start in a city I live in.

We can only stay up to date with 150 ties, and roughly at best...it is true, and it is interesting to think about who the closest people to us are.

Mixing social groups really doesn't work. It is kind of strange.

I want to give this a more detailed look a bit later, but it's quite interesting now. I wonder if it says anything about people who have thousands of friends, and why they do...

Yow.

But yeah, getting code reviews and being able to take them without personal hurt is apparently a skill that good programmers should have.

I think the negative reviews need to put into perspective that they just are eliminating people who don't align with the main viewpoints of Facebook - I for one would probably be one of them, the idea of making this giant social networking tool doesn't bring me much joy.

I think those people should say more about what led them to Facebook in the first place. If it isn't a love of "connecting" people, then it probably wasn't that great of a reason (e.g., solely money or fame, though I could be wrong)

Oh no, this guy completely misses the point. I can't believe he threw everyone into one bucket of "gamers". Do I want my games to be profit-driven crap like Farmville? Heck no.

I mean, I guess if we want games to be soulless and casual, sure. Thankfully we have indie gaming and some other nice companies to prevent that...

Usually books are interesting and useful. CS seems to be a different thing, as most things are available online for free, and there is a large community. Bookstores are still fun to go to (although I feel like they may be a dying breed).

It always helps to work on exercises (for stuff like math), but for CS, to pick something interesting you want to do in a language(s), but is small - and that can be a hard part. It's getting harder for me to figure out what to use a language for - picking up a language's syntax and nuances is relatively easy (okay, excluding Haskell), but it's worthless unless you have something you want to work on.

Hey, this is good. And it inspired the guy to go deeper into some of the subjects!

Sometimes, a problem is that people only go to sponge learning...and then stop. As a professor of my friend's said...people are getting better and better at being able to talk about something for five minutes...then that's it. Thanks to wikipedia, lots of people can seem smart, but not actually understand something in depth.

I find XKCD also to blame for part of this. If I had a dollar for every time someone made a joke about the Axiom of Choice...