toemetoch
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Embedded sw/hw. And web design. Ooh also cats, love cats. And photography.
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Comment · 14 years ago
lol, romney doesn't even register when compared to fb:
http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=romney,+facebook&grap...
red=fb, blue= romney
The reason this is relevant in the discussion is that when you type in the url in chrome (arguably the top browser) the word in the domain and subdomain count as search words that show up in trends. So when you type "plus" for the g+ url it's added to trends. You can check that little fact by looking at the trends for "plus".
Comment · 14 years ago
Agreed.
According to one of Google's own services, google+ is pretty much dead:
http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=google+plus&graph=wee...
compare with fb:
http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=facebook&graph=weekly...
edit: thank you downvoters for illustrating the bias on HN. A fake stats piece promoting google as #1 on the frontpage? This place is turning into /. but with more google employees. I'm out.
Comment · 14 years ago
I can relate to the friends "who feel sorry" bit. They don't seem to understand that different people value stuff in different ways.
If you want inspiration to make the best of limited spaces, google images for Japanese appartments. Lots of inspiration like using the steps of stairs as drawers, sliding furniture, efficient bookcases,... Here's an extreme example: http://unclutterer.com/2010/04/26/video-incredibly-efficient...
Comment · 14 years ago
I agree.
But this case does raise an issue for NaCl (which I hope will become reality one day) where you have the granularity to mess with cache hits.
Comment · 14 years ago
No. When you apply pressure on ice it becomes liquid. In other words: water doesn't lift things by freezing if that requires an amount of energy larger than what is needed to change state.
Comment · 14 years ago
Part of me wishes this is reverse psychology. The rest of me hopes nobody will fall for it.
Comment · 14 years ago
For the logo:
<span style="border:1px solid white;color:white;padding:1px 3px;display:block"><b>Y</b></span>
Comment · 14 years ago
(where the hell is the bookmark button??)
It's the little star icon at the right inside the address textbox. If it's yellow it means the url is already bookmarked.
Comment · 14 years ago
It's cotton and linen.
Comment · 14 years ago
Fast-forward to the point of actual space colonization. Should mental stability be a factor in survival in space I can imagine that it'll introduce a rather strong darwinistic filter. It's difficult to fathom but realistic that folks with a short fuse have a severe disadvantage. Would it be required to undergo a psychiatric test before you can buy a ticket to an off-world colony and settle? Will people with a genetic predisposition be advised not to have kids? Will earth be a safe-haven for loonies?
Comment · 14 years ago
The Mitsubishi check?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/06/12-money-shots/
Since this kind of money can disturb a bank (a bank lends a multiple of what it has floating) wouldn't it be "cleaner" if the government just opened an account at the same bank and had the money transferred there?
Comment · 14 years ago
This just in: "Stephen Hawking on Higgs: 'Discovery has lost me $100'"
Comment · 14 years ago
In December 2000, Hawking bet Gordon Kane $100 that the Higgs Boson will be discovered at the Fermilab Tevatron.
Since the funding dried up for the Tevatron and the first hints for the discovery of the Higgs boson come from LHC we can conclude that Hawking won the bet and Kane will be the one paying up.