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But, still provide strong value as a unique identifier which is what makes them popular.

I’ve used integers as primary keys, with UUIDs as alternate keys for external-to-the-data-store queries.

It’s a pragmatic, and opinionated general purpose cookbook.

Fast-forward to the end of last year: rd.io shutdown. I've tried a few other services since, each with its own share of problems (I'm currently on Google Music). Now, anything I like, I download. With hard drive space, and backups, it seems significantly simpler to assume that any song can disappear tomorrow.*

* While a service disappearing is a relatively rare event, content churn has always made missing songs a somewhat frequent event. However, for me, rd.io's shutdown emphasized the general incompatibility between the expectations I have for music, (anything I have listened to in the past, I can listen to in the present) and the realities of what a subscription service can deliver. And so, previous annoyances turned into a line in the sand.

You can have a playlist that is made up of other playlists by creating a smart playlist and adding a rule that includes songs from source playlists of your choice. This will atomically include any changes you make to the source playlists.

I manage my music with genres — and to a large part, stay away from smart playlists — however they can be a powerful feature.

There is something verifying and controlling what the watchers do (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellige...). The problem is, that system hasn't been effective at stopping the abuses some of us would like stopped.

As you said, with mastery the rest should follow. Though, in my experience, testing itself needs to be mastered. For some of us that comes quite naturally, but for others it takes a bit of time.

Edit: Sorry, I didn't see aestra's comment before I posted.

Skype added 39 million users in Q4 2009, to come to a total of 560 million accounts.#2

Its still early for facetime, but I wouldn't discount Apple, especially with over 120 million iOS devices sold.#3

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#1 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/business-week-14-million-googl...

#2 http://gigaom.com/2010/04/20/skype-q4-2009-number

#3 http://mashable.com/2010/09/01/apple-ios-downloads-stat/

It shouldn't be completely surprising. The more characters (c) than digits (d) in a name, the more options available. 3c1d has more options (26x26x26x10=175760) than 4d (10x10x10x10=10000).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial

EDIT: And also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_theory

Also, "the right" today is much changed from the 70s.

Of course this might not be what they're intending to do at all.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/04...

During an interview on Tuesday, General Jabiri challenged a Times reporter to test the ADE 651, placing a grenade and a machine pistol in plain view in his office. Despite two attempts, the wand did not detect the weapons when used by the reporter but did so each time it was used by a policeman.

“You need more training,” the general said.

Second, India has had and continues to have horrible acts of violence committed against various social and religious segments of the population. See: Partition of India, Ayodhya, Caste System violence.

Third, I haven't seen any study, nor any evidence that suggests that violence is unique to non-vegetarians.

I'm not sure if thats enough though. I guess that would depend on the price point + execution. Right now I already get what seems like the same results it promises — all of my video is sourced online and I just feed the video from my computer to my TV setup.

But I don't find cable valuable. Maybe this is more valuable for people who do?

Which is what the iPad was created to target.

> your free or shiny OS doesn't mean shit if I can't run my apps on it

The only application I know of where I prefer the Windows implementation to what is available for my Mac is Quickbooks. There might be other narrow verticals (CAD?) where you don't have best of breed software available for Apple's OS, but by and large in 2010 worrying about software availability for a Mac is a moot point.

- I go through Google Reader once a day scanning for useful things. Anything that I can't go process in a few minutes or don't want to deal with immediately I save.

- Anything I come across during the day (from emails, friends, colleagues, etc) that I want to look at later also gets saved.

- I save things in two ways: articles/text to Instapaper, and everything else to a 'temporary' bookmark folder on my browser.

- When I have some time, 3 to 5 times a week, I'll read through the articles on Instapaper. I'll archive the articles after I read them on Instapaper, deleting any that weren't useful.

- 2 to 4 times a month I'll go through the 'temporary folder'. Deleting anything that isn't useful and and using diigo to archive everything that is.

- The key thing so far for me is to make sure I relentlessly remove anything that I am reasonably sure isn't useful especially from my RSS reader.

Its not as simple as I'd like it to be, mostly because I'm using two archiving services. I like instapaper's ability to easily convert articles into a readable format. At the same time for organizing and archiving everything else diigo works great.