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Re:Twitter (or Failover Twitter) runs on Google App Engine? on Thursday February 18, 2010 @10:51AM (#1134376)
Looks like a failover node, just in case
Re:Nick Carr: It's not what you know on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @12:31PM (#1047991)
Essentially quotes Google's Marissa Mayer from her edge.org annual question on internet- "It's not what you know, it's what you can find out."
Google Wave to the rescue?
Re:13 world class mathematicians on doing mathematical research on Saturday October 31, 2009 @12:53PM (#913711)
My favorite part is from Ed Witten, a leading theoretical physicist, and also a Fields’ Medalist, who replied:

“There isn’t a clear task. If you are a researcher you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.

You want to find the question that is sufficiently easy that you might be able to answer it, and sufficiently hard that the answer is interesting. You spend a lot of time thinking and you spend a lot of time floundering around.”

Re:Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released on Thursday October 29, 2009 @11:37AM (#910189)
Looks like they've included Ubuntu One,GNOME 2.28, kernel 2.6.31, Quickly (rails like framework that brings rapid development) and many more

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