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Los Angeles (i.e. Hollywood) could be a strategic move given Amazon's massive push in original series and programming via Amazon Studios. Also, shares a coast with Seattle.

This is fascinating, especially whether the hole was created from a top impact or from the bottom such as volcanic eruption.

On another note, why are we discovering this just now? I was under the amateur impression that the entire surface of Mars was scanned and imaged by NASA at some point. But again, I may have interpreted that incorrectly.

Congrats on the launch of Firebase and absolutely love the code demo; it hooks you in.

At the end of the demo you are asked if you'd like early access. Definitely.

Finally! This class was supposed to start in January 2012, hopefully all the technical kinks are worked out. Does anyone know what the issue was? I believe all the Stanford online learning classes were affected.

Even if it's a small change, consider a code review. At the very least it's a sanity check.

Not surprisingly, the seemingly minor changes can have just as devastating results in production as the major ones.

It's great to see these tools available on a cloud computing basis. Just make sure you read the ToS:

1.2. From Customer to Google. By submitting, posting or displaying any Customer Data on or through the Service, Customer gives Google a worldwide, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, non-exclusive, terminable, limited license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Customer Data for the sole purpose of enabling Google to provide Customer with the Service in accordance with the Agreement.

This could be an optimal moment for a Netflix competitor to step in given Netflix's recent issues.

Vdio will probably have the same content licensing and windowing issues. Not an easy hurdle to overcome.

Personally I don't see the video format being a huge drawback, although having the in-video quizzes in HTML5 would be fantastic for tablets. It makes it convenient to learn the content and there is always the ff/rewind buttons. You can take notes.

These remote learning classes from Standford are somewhat new and there is some experimentation taking place, I would rather not see these classes be canceled due to lack of attendance.

All-in-all a great experience, I hope more universities follow suit in this open style of teaching.

The title is actually: Why A + B != A - (-B)

not: Why A + B = A - (-B)

Yes, a known and sad fact many java static files have hardcoded URIs to java.sun.com.

Stupid hack: add a java.sun.com DNS entry on the build server to point to local and host the static files on the build server.

Steve Jobs said he wanted to make a dent in the universe. I'd say he achieved that, he fundamentally changed the world of technology. What an amazing journey and legacy to leave behind. Rest in peace Steve.

When running multi-threaded it would be visually interesting to see multiple paddles mapped to threads responding to requests.