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IAC is in NYC. It's kind of a giant dot-conglomerate. I don't know about the cafeteria there though.

From what I've heard Google actually pays less than average because you're working at "Google". Whatever that means.

What's the draw for an engineer to work at Google these days? Seems like you'd be a small toad in a gigantic pond where your ripples make little impact. Kind of like working at Oracle or IBM or Microsoft or <Big Software Company>. Except there are those dumb bikes all around the campus. Yet still there seems to be this perception there is something 'special' about working at Google that sets it apart from any of the other places, isn't there? The emperor has no clothes? It's not like you're going to get any wealthier from options there than you would at any other relatively same sized company.

Whatever variation may exist, carbon dating has been independently verified via other dating means such as coral ring formations and dendrochronology. Unless whatever is having an effect on carbon dating also affects these other, unrelated, forms of dating in the exact same way we can expect the variation to be small and not significant enough to upend everything we know. The evidence that our dating mechanisms work is undeniable - tectonic movement, linguistic evidence of language dispersion, physiological changes in species and their geographical distribution, etc etc all happen at predictable rates and all match up with what we know about our dating methods.

Really, creationists should be better suited applying their ultra-skepticism at the much larger gaps in evidence and analysis found in their own ideas. The thing about people who value science is that whenever data presents a challenge we have to account for it, unlike the idiot creationists who only embrace data when it agrees with their already pre-conceived ideas.

There's nothing to be terrified of. Just live your life and do your best. If you're going to live your entire life with fear about retirement or debt, then by the time you reach retirement age you'll have lived most of your life in fear. Which is worse? Working during retirement age or living the vast majority of your life in fear? If things get really really bad you can always put a hole in your head or jump off a bridge. So don't worry about it. Just work hard, enjoy your life, and be happy if you want to be.

It is verbose, but that makes it readable. I don't really type that much more, I just use tab completion in vim.

I swear I thought those words would get edited out by someone else at Cloudkick. I wrote that half jokingly and I guess it made into the actual blog post. :P

You realize you broke the law and admitted to it.

An auto-response confirmation would make posterous suck.

> I didn't read the entire thing.

It has nothing to do with time travel, if you didn't care to read the article, why care to comment.

Also you can probably only know the future of different, possible similar timelines. Whatever changes you make in those other timelines will not affect your own. You can alter their future but not your own, otherwise you can alter causality. I don't know if altering causality makes any sense.

I don't think you read my comment carefully enough (could be my fault, I may not have been very clear). Just to clarify, unless nobody ever runs Diane's program ever again on their own quantum machine there are an infinite number of Dianes and Tommys not seeing the black hole behind them even though they are also simulations, and they would not know it one way or the other but odds are they could guess they are in a simulation and would more than likely be right.

The funny thing is that, given in the story that it is possible to simulate the universe, even the top level Timmy and Diane can't be certain that they are not in a simulation, only that they are at the top of that particular line of simulations involving them. Imagine that when they publish this paper and others try Diane's program out on their own quantum computer, they will also create infinite simulations, which all also simulate this account of Diane and Timmy creating simulations at a previous point. In each of those infinite simulations of others running Diane's program there will be an infinite number of simulated Dianes and Timmys experiencing themselves as top level in the occurrence described in this story (not seeing the black ball behind them). Basically if the universe can be simulated, we are probably all in a simulation.

I'm going to assume sarcasm since ignoring doesn't usually involve replying.

Wow! Thanks.

Site Catalyst: http://www.omniture.com/en/products/online_analytics/sitecat... It's not free though. :/

The ability to edit the JavaScript will go a long way to make debugging easier.

#1. I hate the "this" keyword abuse in jQuery, this article demonstrates it clearly. #2. Some minor code style issues do not make a bad plugin.

Saratoga, Campbell and Los Gatos are in the south of San Jose and Silicon Valley. Hardly poor areas. The poorer areas are East-Palto Alto, which is not south and has nothing to do with prevailing winds. This has basically turned into attempting to find patterns in television static.

Yes, I think so. People have been forced to settle with the SEC for comments made on forums for example.

http://news.cnet.com/SEC,-teen-settle-Net-stock-scheme-case/...

Did MG Siegler just violate SEC laws by not disclosing if he owns Apple stock and telling thousands of his readers that Apple stock will continue to increase?

It took 14 days for my account to be deleted.

> google.browser.engine.IE = false

Tsk, tsk. Browser detection instead of feature detection. ;\

Pretty horrible interface though. Can't just right click on an open site to toggle block/allow.

Can't you just tell him that it was a typo?

The new category thing is annoying, if I search for 'django' I don't even get a list of links (the top one should be the python django framework) I get a list of things named django. I have to scroll all the way to the bottom of a bunch of junk to get the django web framework link. Maybe make that category thing less aggressive or something one can turn off in the settings.

I don't care if they do better. It's not pointless quitting, I now no longer have Facebook in my life. That was the point. "Challenging them to do better" has a strange assumption that somehow we all stand to gain if we can just make sure they get it right next time, or maybe the time after. They're not our friends, they're not an Oxfam, they're a business with a shitty product. I don't challenge Johnson & Johnson to get them to make a better band-aid, because frankly, I don't give a shit. Same with Facebook.

>"I think that we owe it to the users to challenge Facebook to live up to a higher standard, regardless of what we as individuals may gain or lose from their choices."

People need to learn to think for themselves and live with the consequences of their choices. It's not rocket science.

Just a weird article.

Here's another one:

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7584397130

I've lost interest in their API since they've implemented those ridiculous display requirements. After Facebook's and Twitter's recent changes I've become completely disillusioned about what the use of third party API's entail, especially social media. I don't blame them for looking after their self-interest, well at least not Twitter, but working with social media API's no longer seem fun or interesting. They seem like too much take and not enough give. It's clear they want ownership and control, and the only innovation they want is the kind they can directly benefit from. Again, nothing wrong with that, just not going to be their fucking lap dog.

Why does taste have to cost hundreds and thousands of dollars?

Oh, cool. Sorry. :O