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Interesting, but it would be cooler to have clear window glaze that changed the amount of infrared it reflected based on the temperature. - Joe Gregorio

NC is 12th. - Joe Gregorio

Wow. A little clunky, maybe it's just the version packaged for ubuntu, but man does this have potential! - Joe Gregorio

A very very nice space, rooms available to rent by the hour for events. - Joe Gregorio

I've said it before: "The problem with "social media" sites is that they're like bars, even if they become the next Studio 54, they will all, eventually, become the next Studio 54." - Joe Gregorio

Hmm, I might have to take a look at Scala. - Joe Gregorio

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A list of top rated games - Joe Gregorio

I need to take a look at Dropbox. - Joe Gregorio

There is a negative correlation between GDP and Trade as a % of GDP, and that correlation holds over the past 34 years. Would like to able to plot that against 'abundance of natural resources', but that's obviously not a choice. - Joe Gregorio

I've always wondered, given some peoples vehement reaction to natural selection, what their reaction would be to the discovery of life on another planet. - Joe Gregorio

"What is Fusion Tables? A product launched recently in Google Labs, Fusion Tables is a free service for sharing and visualizing data online. It allows you to upload data, share and mark up your data with collaborators, merge data from multiple tables, and create visualizations like charts and maps." - Joe Gregorio

" The only way to cope with it, he argued, was a new generation of scientific computing tools to manage, visualize and analyze the data flood." - Joe Gregorio

The book is available online too: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us... ; wasn't clear to me from the nytimes article. - Ed Summers

Thanks, updated my blog post to point to the online version. http://bitworking.org/news... - Joe Gregorio

"often at a level of intoxication that is greater than is ethical to induce" - Joe Gregorio

Awesome a capella version of the 12 Days of Christmas - Joe Gregorio

Hmm, I've only read 4 of the 20. - Joe Gregorio

"""I am scheduled to begin dying on Feb. 1, 2010.""" - Joe Gregorio

So take right now, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's not the right reaction. If you look at those people and listen to them on talk radio, these are people with real grievances. I listen to talk radio a lot and it's kind of interesting. If you can sort of suspend your knowledge of the world ... These people think, "I've done everything right all my life, I'm a god-fearing Christian, I'm white, I'm male, I've worked hard, and I carry a gun. I do everything I'm supposed to do. And I'm getting shafted." And in fact they are getting shafted. For 30 years their wages have stagnated or declined, the social conditions have worsened, the children are going crazy, there are no schools, there's nothing, so somebody must be doing something to them, and they want to know who it is. - Joe Gregorio

Continuous stream of updates on hot topics. Nice UI. Enable flash if the site doesn't work for you. - Joe Gregorio

Thanks for the kind words, Joe! - Michael R. Bernstein

"""The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be""" - Joe Gregorio

Good for use as a general mercurial cheat sheet. - Joe Gregorio

"""So the essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well.""" - Joe Gregorio

Maybe there's better code to use as an example; I would hardly call that code making a strong case for exceptions. - Joe Gregorio

Something I'd love to see solved with the same minimalism and clarity that has been applied to the rest of Go. - Joe Gregorio

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"""I've developed a lot of multi-threaded Java over the years, and thought I knew quite a lot about designing parallel programs. I now know I've still plenty to learn. Concurrency is one area where a better understanding hardware and software, and how they interaction really makes a difference. For example, even though byte code languages have platform independent memory models, performance is still heavily influenced by on chip cache hits and misses (at least for code which isn't IO bound).""" - Joe Gregorio

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Photos from Internet Summit 2009, nicely shows how well attended the event was. - Joe Gregorio

A real world question that is being debated right now on one of the lists I follow. It's apparently not a simple answer. What are your thoughts? - DeWitt Clinton

I am always more willing to comment at a site where there is a message requesting civility posted. I like NPG's message -- something like "be as argumentative as you like, but keep it civil". - Mickey Schafer

Clojure has language-level support for STM with 'ref's, and I wonder if the performance limitations in the Cascaval paper are mitigated by the extra hinting that 'ref's offer. The paper generally discussed STM in an untyped, unhinted environment. - DeWitt Clinton

Agreed -- Clojure's 'refs' are like that, similar to Go's or Haskell's high-level concurrent abstractions. These papers have been mostly focused on retrofitting STM to lower-level languages with unmanaged memory, which is almost unfair to the potential benefits of STM. - DeWitt Clinton