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Nice PR hit for Goog!

> Employees at Google, for instance, are offered the chance to nap at work because the company believes it may increase productivity.

What percentage of employee-days at Google actually involve a nap? 1%? 0.01%? Is it any higher than the traditional comic practice of "curl up under your desk"?

not entirely randomly, but processing stuff that's been "on your mind" and not packed away in long-term memory.

I imagine it (non-scientifically) as the brain's trash compactor, finishing up all the half-completed thoughts of your day, not necessary in any sort of logical way, like mashing the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle together regardless of how well they fit, to get something that just barely fits together at a glance.

Contactually has a creepy mannequin, though.

I'm fairly certain that Shuttleworth is coming to realize he'll never recoup his investment in Canonical, and his goal is to drive Ubuntu into the ground so he can close up shop and stop hemorrhaging funds.

You credibly describe the flaws of the prison system, but you don't offer any alternatives.

Frankly, given the choice of a rock and a hard place, it is better to have a criminal in jail half his life and terrorizing society half his life, then terrorizing society for his entire life.

We aren't looking at Jean Valjeans here.

To quote the patron saint of Hacker News, patio11: If you don't like it, maybe you aren't in their target market.

Do you think you are in MySpace's target market?

"Hey friend, it looks like you are using Opera. Beware, pal, that we don't go to the opera down here on the ranch, so there may be rough-riding ahead! Try one of these nifty browsers buddy, or sally forth into the unknown. OK, pardner?"

Ctrl-Shift-C in Chrome, or Ctrl-Shift-J in Firefox, will give you a programmable computing environment more powerful and expressive than a 20-year old Atari, Commodore, or Apple.

Those are different. Phishes strive for perfection, because they win as soon as you log in to the fake site.

These "long con" 419 scams need to rebuff intelligent/savvy people and only attract rubes.

I get that deployment is easier when it is vendor hosted, but this really should be a local app using local storage, withe maybe transient server-side storage for syncing between machiens.

It is ACID. It is a DBMS. It's not a Relational DBMS.

In order to keep it to what purpose? To make money.

Wow, so the trains don't run on time, so they make the time run on the trains?