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“Today, Yahoo! Search is taking another step in extending the Yahoo! Open Strategy with the launch of Yahoo! Search BOSS, a web services platform that allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same more...

“Cosmologists are not your run-of-the-mill thinkers, and Max Tegmark is not your run-of-the-mill cosmologist. Throughout his career, Tegmark has made important contributions to problems such as measuring dark matter in the cosmos and understanding how light from the early universe more...

One of the primary reasons why I'm still working on jaanix

“..including on every Dell computer and in every installation of Adobe Flash. Didn't the software industry already go through this ten years ago, and collectively determine that bundled software is kinda.. evil?”

“When I saw Kent Beck’s “Extreme Programming Explained” in our office, I was shocked. I’ve already accepted the inevitable occasional purchasing of obscure C++ wisdom, exemplified by titles such as “Effective C++”, “Exceptional C++”, “Imperfect C+ more...

“(Fortune Magazine) -- Before the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission starts scrutinizing the role that speculators may have played in driving up fuel and food prices, investigators may want to take a look at price swings in a commodity not more...

“ By J. Nicholas Hoover <!-- remove http:// substring (if present) from the url --> InformationWeek July 8, 2008 12:20 PM <!--body--> ”

“It's not cool to rip off other people's blogposts dude. Link to original article: http://vertonghen.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/erlang-or-utility-computing-vs-appliance-computing/”

“Last Friday, OpenMoko launched its highly anticipated FreeRunner smartphone, a Linux-based handset that's completely open in both hardware and software, and is designed to encourage third-party modification and customization. Although the FreeRunner's software platform is still incomplete, the devic more...

“Update: Welcome Stumblers & Reddit readers! Henk adds a great comment at the bottom and continues the discussion to a thoughtful post called ‘University versus self-taught‘ over at his own site. Is he right? I have had great luck in more...

“ from mpmath.lib import giant_steps, lshift, rshift from math import log START_PREC = 15 def size(x): if isinstance(x, (int, long)): return int(log(x,2)) # GMPY support return x.numdigits(2) def newdiv(p, q): szp = size(p) szq = size(q) szr = szp - more...

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“Learning Web Standards just got easier. Opera's new Web Standards Curriculum, released in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network, is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics. more...

“ PORTLAND, Ore. — Humanity was dealt a decisive blow by a poker-playing artificial intelligence program called Polaris during the Man-Machine Poker Competition in Las Vegas. ”