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The illusion of life: animation principles and UI design(uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com)
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>“If you think it’s a toss-up, let’s bet,” Silver Tweeted at Scarborough. “If Obama wins, you donate $1,000 to the American Red Cross. If Romney wins, I do. Deal?” Wouldn't a better bet be something like $800 to Scarborough's charity if
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It was <3 weeks from the time I decided I would be more productive in a different group until the time I was at my new desk. The stages were roughly 1) meeting with my manager and manager's manager to notify them that I wanted to transf
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>The very day after I blogged about that, my Google+ account was suspended, for using the name I was almost universally known by. Over the next couple of months, I campaigned tirelessly for Google+ to change its policies, working with t
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The allocation policy is something that people are not fans of, but it isn't as bad as you make it sound. When I joined Google, I also initially joined a team that was a bad fit for me. However, I transferred to a completely different team
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This selection bias is evident when the performance of first generation Asian Americans immigrants is compared with the performance of second and third generation Asian Americans. The drive that pushes poor (by middle-class American standar
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If the power companies stop running the windmills, they don't get any money. >Wind farms in West Texas earlier this year were paying utilities to use their electricity on particularly gusty days because they can still earn $22 a megawat
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There is also http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ for running Python and other scripting languages on Android. I've used it in the past when I needed to use my phone as a fancy calculate and wrote some Python to perform the calcul
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FYI, this rule has been changed:"Obviously, our office encourages lifelong learning and wants Minnesotans to take advantage of educational materials available on the Internet, particularly if they’re free. No Minnesotan should hesitate to t
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Hernandez said in an interview with Salon that subjecting herself to constant monitoring through an RFID chip is like being branded with the “mark of the beast” – a reference to the Bible's apocalyptic Book of Revelations. This sounds lik
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One other factor that's missing from the study is the level of success achieved by the companies. Instead of just grouping companies into "Generating Revenue"/"Profitable" or "IPO'd", they should have done a breakdown by how successful the
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[Citation needed] with regards to "then they buy a land around his, put their seeds on, wind blows them on the farmer land, then they sue him for stealing their seeds" If you are referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_In
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>A civilization that built a Dyson Sphere would have to go to great lengths to avoid detection, either by getting rid of its waste heat in some novel way, or by building massive radiators that give off heat so cool that it would be unde
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This might be the 3D map that Nokia will use in their phone if you want to compare: http://maps3d.svc.nokia.com/webgl/index.html
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I've always found the selective paranoia of technophobes to be strange. I would bet that the kids who object to the RFIDs are probably carrying smartphones that can be tracked just as easily: http://www.pcworld.com/article/255802/this_smar
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I transferred after ~3 months because my original team wasn't a good fit for me. One of the topics that is mentioned during orientation is that Google is designed to be fault tolerant at multiple levels. If a server goes down, the workload
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That's one of IBM's plans for Watson: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/03/ibm-watson/
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The unanswered question is how much he profited from the move of selling the company. If firing all of the old people, devaluing their stock to $0, and reforming the company netted him a $1M bonus, then he is still a greedy bastard and dona
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It's really annoying when all these people complaining about bills like CISPA and other potentially dangerous bills don't actually mention why the bills are bad. Even the Wikipedia article on CISPA was horrible since it didn't directly quot
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That is the Mozilla Foundation. There is also the for-profit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
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This seems unlikely given how little physical cash is used in VC funding.
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Does this mean those places also ban people from using smartphones or normal cameras on the premises? There is no indications that Mann was actively taking pictures of strangers. And it would makes sense for a tourist to take pictures of hi
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The whole notion of preventing unfair technical advantages in the Olympics is outdated and stems from the fundamental attribution error [1]. The competition is no longer primarily about the athlete but about the level of training they have
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Tie-breaking votes haven't been used since the Carter administration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tie-breaking_votes_cast...
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There is also this test of 1600 queries: http://gizmodo.com/5922332/google-search-beats-the-crap-out-... Final results is 86% to 68% for Google.
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Because taxes have given us public schools, public infrastructure, and other public services. While all of these could be done better by the private sector in theory, there is no evidence that it will happen in practice.
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There is an impressive video of this robot from 2009 showing off its dexterity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KxjVlaLBmk