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vinutherajon Unconfirmed reports that Yahoo has sold Delicious for $5 Million+

For your latter query this research from December 2010 seems to be connected - http://www.princeton.edu/~angelh/Website/Studies/Article%201...

This connects uncertain career aspirations at age 16 to wage attainment at age 26.

vinutherajon It’s Not a Bubble, People; It’s a Pyramid Scheme

Or you could just weigh them against a duck !

vinutherajon The Netscape Dorm (1994)

More than that, the diary logs show the real face of a startup, with the veil of all the glamor removed. The guy was basically trying not to get killed doing his startup.

vinutherajon Rietveld - code review Google style

I think the Go project uses Mercurial but does code reviews using Rietveld. They have some python code which helps in sending patches for codereview to Rietveld.

I haven't used Review Board, but I have however used Rietveld and I don't have any complaints about the UI. It also provides the "interdiff" feature, just choose the patchsets you want compared for a specific file, when you go to the diff page.

vinutherajon Eric Schmidt’s "5 Exabytes" Quote is a Load of Crap

Now it is.

Reply to the edit: If you stretch the timeline long enough, nothing is of any importance.

vinutherajon AOL buys Huffington Post for $315mm in cash

Hence the - in the -$7bn

vinutherajon Russia poised to breach mysterious Antarctic lake

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok - The average water temperature is calculated to be around −3 °C (27 °F); it remains liquid below the normal freezing point because of high pressure from the weight of the ice above it. Geothermal heat from the Earth's interior warms the bottom of the lake. The ice sheet itself insulates the lake from cold temperatures on the surface.

vinutherajon Ask HN: How to credibly demonstrate self-taught skills/knowledge?

-- Steve Martin.

vinutherajon My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?

How about adding a print button/link on the same page as the text ?

vinutherajon Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?

"It is better to ask for forgiveness than permission" - Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

vinutherajon Lichess - Don't register. Play Chess.

Or both of them are watching two computers playing against each other.

vinutherajon In Quest for a 'Legal High,' Chemists Outfox the Law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson

vinutherajon Microsoft PDC 10 Live Stream

http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

vinutherajon The language I wish Go was

The discussion over at golang-nuts, the official mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thr...

vinutherajon Why GNU grep is Fast

While not entirely true...

One counter-example I can think of is that of Judy trees - http://judy.sourceforge.net/ which uses more instructions to try to keep the data in cache for as long as possible.

A (CPU) cache-line fill is additional time required to do a read reference from RAM when a word is not found in cache. In today's computers the time for a cache-line fill is in the range of 50..2000 machine instructions. Therefore a cache-line fill should be avoided when fewer than 50 instructions can do the same job.

More info at http://judy.sourceforge.net/doc/10minutes.htm

vinutherajon Harvard Professor Matt Welsh: Working for Google

Ken Thompson and Rob Pike are designated as Distinguished Engineers - sources - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson http://research.google.com/people/r/index.html

vinutherajon Ask HN: anyone ever drop everything and leave software dev behind?

It's a great story, inspiring even, why don't you do an HN post ?

vinutherajon Because Spain won, jQuery: Novice to Ninja is free for 24 hours

France was gone after the group stages. I don't think they assigned any book to France ?!

vinutherajon An interview by a 7th grader

I wonder why you searched "hacker" then ?! :)

vinutherajon Life inside the North Korean bubble

"Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man."

vinutherajon If Microsoft goes Google

Google is preparing a presentation in which they will shortly announce that they will be putting up a torrent containing every file on the internet using this technology.

That last bit was really good :)

vinutherajon If you have to learn just one programming language

Maybe someone here didn't know about this error ?! So it helps someone, if not you or me.

vinutherajon Apple takes stance on consciousness

IIRC fight club had the same rules, and that stopped noone from joining it :D ( infact, now that I have rechecked, they have 2 rules to that effect ! )

Maybe apple dev club will be the next fight club !

vinutherajon Money can't make me happy, says millionaire giving his riches away

Well that's contradictory, because how would you admire it if you hadn't come to know of it, without his press release :) !

vinutherajon Kim Ung-yong: The man with the highest IQ

"You are not responsible for other people's expectations about you" - Richard Feynman

vinutherajon What operating systems the Plan 9 Google guys are using

As mentioned by yummyfajitas you can try

plan9port http://swtch.com/plan9port or

9vx http://swtch.com/9vx

and try to get sam running on top of your linux box.

vinutherajon Unix-jun72: Restoration of 1st Edition UNIX kernel sources

"The software retains the copyright of the original authors and is currently licensed under the Caldera ancient UNIX license." - as mentioned in the homepage, yet the code license information on the right side says GNU General Public License v2. Is this because google only allows a limited number of licenses on code.google.com ?

vinutherajon Scientist discovers PageRank-type algorithm from the 1940s

It depends on the size of the graph given I guess !

vinutherajon Scientist discovers PageRank-type algorithm from the 1940s

I may have misunderstood you, but isn't a node with a lot of outgoing links said to be a hub and a node with a lot of incoming links said to be an authority ?

source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITS_algorithm

vinutherajon Richard P. Feynman - The Relation of Science and Religion

Here's why I am an agnostic - because you can never absolutely certain of the existence/or lack thereof of God ! But the main problem is, IF there is a god, and if he created us and left us all here to kill each other and try to survive by not getting oneself killed, that is a very cruel, sadistic and uncreative god, by the modern moral yardstick! So even if there is a god, I don't think I would respect him by my present morality !