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Wow, the web's two most obnoxious swollen egos disagree on something. Stop the presses.

Am I missing something here? According to the article, the prices have fallen or remained the same, and Apple has upgraded all the hardware.

But in this case, they happen to be right. In the absence of big news items coming from the Valley of late, TechCrunch has become a web 2.0 tabloid.

You must be new to TechCrunch.

every time a human being does not get offspring because his/her desired mate gets snagged by a more appealing specimen that's evolution in progress

Ouch. Succint and harsh.

Basically any note played on an analog instrument has a set of overtones of various frequencies. If these tones were played a bit louder, you would hear a chord rather than a single note.

The best part about _why: if this guy completely loses his mind one day, no one will notice any difference.

good programmers are forced to program simply so that future generations of bad programmers can read their code.

Is this necessarily a bad thing? I generally try follow the "code such that nearly anyone can understand" mantra. Helps keep things simple and concise.

Neat idea; unfortunate name.

This is cool and all, but what's the utility? You can already isolate individual windows and arbitrary screen regions with the built-in OS X screenshot grabber.

Dropbox stores your files locally and syncs them with the files on the cloud. Zumo stores them only in the cloud and streams them to you on demand.

And the contention is that we can observe this because certain high-precision experiments might be picking up anomalies on the scale of a Planck length, whereas we shouldn't theoretically be able to detect anything so small. Therefore, what we're detecting must be an enlarged projection of what's actually there.

Cast Away

This happens to me as well. Sometimes I also hear random disconnected sounds: a bell, pots clanging, voices, etc. There have been many nights where I've actually struggled to sleep through all the cacophony.

Here's a tip: if "retarded" is the best adjective you can come up with, you've already lost the argument.

You should demand your money back.

American cows are fair game.

http://www.routesy.com/

Well, this certainly flies in the face of the sensationalist tone of the linked article.

TechCrunch Layoff Tracker? Seriously?

One thing they're missing here is that optimization is also about optimizing resources, not just the speed of an individual request/response cycle. If each request takes 50% less time, the app has 100% more resources to handle other requests. So even though the individual users don't feel a difference, the app as a whole is much more efficient.

This just in: Paul Buchheit makes a bathroom visit. More details to come.

Reddit is that way ---->

Speaking from experience: any doubts you have in your mind are inconsequential. Go for it! :)

*algorithm

Is anyone out there using a Pylons stack for GIS? I'm starting a new geo-related project, and GeoDjango looks awesome, but I'm having trouble getting over the fact that Pylons is just more my style.

ThinkPad + Ubuntu FTW

Nice article, but Ruby wouldn't have been my language of choice for illustrating HPC concepts.

Just out of curiosity... Based on your comments, there seems to be something going on between you and Zed. Was there some incident?

Bah, humbug! :)

And funny.