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That will be huge if true. Gravity wave will tell us many things about the very early universe(first few 100,1000s of years!), for which we have very little data now. Its an amazing achievement for LIGO just after 10 days of its start.

Stuff in Space 11 years ago

What is the benefit of having time period larger than geosynchronous satellite? I see quite some satellite like that, e.g. OPS 6638 which has a time period of 6,701.8 minutes. I can think of no benefit of it, and on the downside it will require stronger rocket and provide low visibility.

Favicon bug 11 years ago

Why do browser people always forget about favicons? Most browser saved favicon on private browsing and then this.

This type of competition is not good as there will only be minor differences which will confuse others. They will not be viewed as two different environments but two version of same environment. Developers will not want their libraries to work only with io when they can make it work with node with a hack. This can create situation like unix/windows compatibility. And using same package manager worsens the situation.

Wow, I almost forgot that I was using HTML5 version of youtube as a preview. I am using HTML5 preview since day 1 and I don't remember any glitches or bugs. I wonder why this switch has taken so long given many upsides and no known downside.

The reason that I use C many of times is not because of its speed but because it (almost) completely reveals it inner working even when there is clear reason not to do so.

(1) Though it is bad for most of time but still I feel more contended sometimes with it, especially for complex code.

(2) Even if this transparency is at superficial level with optimising compilers, but there are very few high level optimisation applied to C code and that too in the form of loop unrolling, tail call optimisation, loop interchange etc.

I think integration with other Google products is the main reason they are venturing here. It can offer one click integration to google apps, app engine, cloud compute and blogger. If they offer free google apps for personal use, I think it can be a major selling point.