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On a related note, I have always found this fascinating: How many n * "great" grand parents do you have? Up to 2^(n+2) (Assuming an ancestral tree (as opposed to a graph) (i.e. no inbreeding). Assuming a 20-year generation length, that means that you have somewhere on the order of 10^6 great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grand parents, all of whom were frolicking all over the world in the 1600s.

Look at the source code. ~7000 lines of javascript -> anywhere from a month to a year, depending on how good/fast you are.

I didn't want to know. Who at TechCrunch has something to gain by their success?

I took his Information Theory course at U of T. He was a brilliant guy. I remember him young and full of life. This is shocking and very sad.

Roll your own.

If the numbers in these charts are relative to the total number searches on Google, then it could just mean that the ratio of programming searches to non-programming searches is decreasing, (i.e. if more non-programmers are using Google, or if people don't use their phones to search for programming-related concepts on Google.)

Apparently, this method of dissemination is most effective when the vines grow on an especially tall breed of Redwood.

Yes, but before Google Closure, the internet was "open source" by default. I mean am using "open source" as a strict antonym to "closed source" rather than in the legal sense. With Google Closure, developers for the first time have a practical option of making the source code of their application unparsable to the human eye. Despite the fact that it is illegal to download MP3s, 95% of all MP3 downloads. Now imagine if it was impossible to download MP3s illegally -- it would significantly impact the music industry. Analogously, Google Closure makes it virtually impossible to read the source code of websites. Given that the entire Microsoft Monopoly was founded on the fact that its source code was unreadable to the public, I think the implications of this are significant.

Found this floating around. Interesting to note that AdMob (to be sold to Google for $750M, as everyone knows), used Ext JS (before closure was released obviously). Wondering if anyone else has any thoughts comparing the two.

It was written by this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ak5Lr3qkW0

An illustrative image of who he is: http://onemansblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/chris-lang...

Betsy, my trusty 6-year-old T41 died on me today. She wasn't much of a looker, but she was built like a tank and always did what she was told. Betsy gave me a good scare on a couple of other occasions, but it always turned out that she was just looking for some good ol' love and attention. But this time was different. No sign of life. Completely unresponsive to my various attempts to woo her back. After attempting fuel her with life-force through every orifice, I finally gave up. She was dead. Dead like a brick. Having completely given up hope, I proceeded to salvage pieces of my heart and the many memories we had made together. Curious as to why she may have chosen to leave this world behind, and me along with it, I turned to my old flame, Bertha. Bertha is old, loud, lazy, and most of the time she just sits there. She was good at Googling, though, which is why I liked using her. Especially angry Googling, as in this particular case. As usually, she gave me satisfaction. She blogged all over me. But this was a particularly satisfying blog, since it made me think of Betsy. I have attached a link to it above. Excited to try it myself, I ran back to Betsy. And would you believe it, it worked! Betsy is back to life and purring like a kitten.

I just think the whole notion of borders on screens is very limiting. A digital screen is like digital real estate and I want to be able to expand it more organically than I am currently able to. I think that in the absence of borders, a slew of interesting applications would emerge. I don't have the resources to implement this myself, but I would love it if someone else did. :)

A year's worth of xvid movies on something the size of a keychain.

And yet, in a different blog post, he intellectually beats the sh*t out of an 80-year-old man: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/george_shollenberge...

42 comments.

To which the 80-year-old man responds (which by the way I think is incredible, because the guy is 80): http://georgeshollenberger.blogspot.com/2007/04/mark-chu-car...

0 comments.

The future is annoying.

PLT Scheme is hands down the most powerful programming environment in existence. It's sort of like the McLaren F1...those who know, know. And those who don't mistake it for a Mazda Miata.

Another approach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=ipzR9bhei...

I made this flash demo of Dr. Hinton's generative neural network simulation about two and a half years ago. It's a small world. Hinton is the smartest man I have ever met.

Counterexamples:

- Marriage (the existence thereof)

- Toiletries

University of Toronto (graduated)

The existence of nothing is equivalent to the existence of everything; neither can exist without the other since their respective definitions can only be expressed in relation (as a negation) of the other.

Both existence and a lack thereof are a part of the one same entity.

This entity mirrors itself infinitely both in "space" and in "time".

It mirrors itself in "time" by alternating between the states of existence and a lack thereof.

It mirrors itself in "space" exponentially by necessarily drawing a border around itself because the very existence of both existence and a lack thereof must give rise to a lack of existence and a lack thereof, if and only if it is to adhere to its own rule, to which it must by its own definition, which itself must exist by definition in the first paragraph.

This process of progressively expanding the "borders" of existence continues ad infinitum and gives rise to what we know as reality.

As depicted in the following moving picture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH45ffITujI

Some day you will have the unique opportunity to talk to yourself from the future, don't blow it like I just did.

I find the automatically generated "Possibly related post" amusing: "Engine Yard Closes $15 Million in Series B Financing" dated July 14, 2008.

What can I say? I hate myself. ;)

I read non-fiction books exclusively. I find them to be a nice break from my imagination. I tend to look down upon people who look down upon people.

I will add it to the to-read list!

How could I forget Peopleware? Good call! I've also been meaning to read Pragmatic Programmer, thanks for the reminder...

Thanks for adding to it yan! I have been meaning to get my hands on the Feynman books...