TheBurningOr

FWIW

The Atlantic covered this story much better (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-ho...) and their coverage included two additional charts. One corresponds to your criticism of adjusting for titles vs versions. In that chart, the drop off in the mid 20th century is still evident but not as extreme. In the second chart, they account for differences in the number of books published per decade using third party sources. In that version, the divergance is actually much worse.

I don't think there were any responses to your criticism of the categories.

Does anyone have any corroboration of this?

Needs to have a more prominent share button so I can send this to my friends who have so helpfully 'liked' products that I'm now spammed with.

I had the same experience with my Incredible 1. It was wonderful for about 6 months until it became absolutely unusable. Random bugs all over the place. Updates not coming in. So much lagginess in the UI that the interface became basically unusable.

Ugh. Yeah. Got to that point in the article and closed the tab. It's a good article, but, sadly, that's the only thing I remember now about the article.

The attraction and collision demos are both doing collision detection, which means N! calculations (for each particle check the location of all the other particles that have not been checked relative to this one). Whereas the chain, cloth and I can't recall the name of the third one, are on the order of N calculations (constant interaction with only a fixed number of other particles).

This reminds me of Zappa.js (http://zappajs.org/), one of my favorite CoffeeScript implementations of a web server on Node (although it's mostly just a wrapper for express). I'd be curious, though what advantages there are in creating a totally new web server (this approach) from Zappa's backwards compatible with Express.js's approach.

I tried Blekko for a bit this past fall and was not terribly impressed. I, frankly, don't understand what the /slash notation is doing. is it a filter? Is it a specific type of search?

However, I have been using DuckDuckGo almost exclusively for the past 2 months and I'm not sure that I'll be going back anytime soon. DDG is touted as being for the privacy conscious, but I can't say that was my primary motivation in switching. I have been increasingly unhappy with Google's 'bubbling' and my searches there increasingly felt like I was running in circles through crappy mailing list archives and spam sites and all their new 'features.'

DDG brought back memories of what drew me to Google in the first place, over a decade ago. It is clean, straightforward, and relevant. Yeah, I know it's running on Yahoo Search APIs which are running on Bing, but it's still a drastically different search experience.

Finally, doing a bit of research into DDGs extras and the !bang notation pages kind of sealed the deal for me. Want to know your IP address? just search "ip" Want lorem ipsum text, just search for that. Want to search the python documentation? Just use !python. Want to re-run your last search in Google? Just add !g Those features alone are enough to make it a true power user's search engine.

Fascinating article, but I'd still like to know more about that 8th figure on the inflation model. We are told that the y-axis represents energy, but what is the x-axis? It clearly isn't time because it's being measured in phi over something measured in GeV.

Do screen readers parse CSS in their reading? I would think this would avoid that problem by using the :before pseudo classes rather than injecting it into the dom directly.

edit: fuller thought.

This is one of the best comments on here. 'Talent' is not a one dimensional scalar.

I'm not sure that this is entirely true for Google. Recall that Google bought DoubleClick and that much of their current advertising empire is built on that foundation. I think Twitter is aiming to do something similar here.

Genuine question here. How is the right to privacy circumvented to allow for the CCTV cameras and other policies that seem, to me at least, to be a pretty clear invasion of privacy. Seems to me this policy is more about allowing aristocrats, celebrities and the wealthy to squash stories they don't want published about them.

Especially when I may often as not be getting this email from my phone where I don't necessarily want to have to click through to your web-app.

Is it sad that my first thought on seeing this is "That's a valuable domain name!"

>> we as consumers have brought this upon ourselves because more often than not, we don't distinguish based on features, we select based on price, so we have given airlines every incentive to pull these kinds of tricks.

True, but at the same time, there is very little way of distinguishing between features. Policies like extra baggage charges are extremely poorly labelled for most major airlines such that charts like this one (http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/blog/3801089/airline-baggage-...) are not uncommon to make sense of all the different policies. Furthermore, policies like the charge for extra headphones or TVs seem to vary not from airline to airline, but airplane to airplane, depending on the media equipment that the plane is outfitted with.

I think consumers do want those extra perks and would be willing to pay more for them, but simply do not have the means to make sense of the byzantine airfare purchasing 'system' that we have. Hence, consumers go with the lowest price as the one thing of which they can be sure. This is why I think Hipmunk is so important as a startup. It's the first attempt by a flight search engine to rank and display flights not just by price, but also by some of these other features.