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New comment by toemetoch in "Google+ grows 43% in June"

toemetoch — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:59:58 +0000

lol, romney doesn't even register when compared to fb:

http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=romney,+facebook&grap...

red=fb, blue= romney

The reason this is relevant in the discussion is that when you type in the url in chrome (arguably the top browser) the word in the domain and subdomain count as search words that show up in trends. So when you type "plus" for the g+ url it's added to trends. You can check that little fact by looking at the trends for "plus".

New comment by toemetoch in "Google+ grows 43% in June"

toemetoch — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:39:26 +0000

Agreed.

According to one of Google's own services, google+ is pretty much dead:

http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=google+plus&graph=wee...

compare with fb:

http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=facebook&graph=weekly...

edit: thank you downvoters for illustrating the bias on HN. A fake stats piece promoting google as #1 on the frontpage? This place is turning into /. but with more google employees. I'm out.

New comment by toemetoch in "Micro-apartments next for S.F.?"

toemetoch — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:13:56 +0000

I can relate to the friends "who feel sorry" bit. They don't seem to understand that different people value stuff in different ways.

If you want inspiration to make the best of limited spaces, google images for Japanese appartments. Lots of inspiration like using the steps of stairs as drawers, sliding furniture, efficient bookcases,... Here's an extreme example: http://unclutterer.com/2010/04/26/video-incredibly-efficient...

New comment by toemetoch in "[dead]"

toemetoch — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 10:41:49 +0000

I agree.

But this case does raise an issue for NaCl (which I hope will become reality one day) where you have the granularity to mess with cache hits.

New comment by toemetoch in "How to Make a Metamaterial that Expands Under Pressure and Contracts In Tension"

toemetoch — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:34:22 +0000

No. When you apply pressure on ice it becomes liquid. In other words: water doesn't lift things by freezing if that requires an amount of energy larger than what is needed to change state.

New comment by toemetoch in "Now we’re not even allowed to link to the Olympics website?"

toemetoch — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:22:54 +0000

Part of me wishes this is reverse psychology. The rest of me hopes nobody will fall for it.

New comment by toemetoch in "[dead]"

toemetoch — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:16:27 +0000

For the logo:

but can't get the "Y" 100% right.

New comment by toemetoch in "Firefox: Can this Web browser be saved?"

toemetoch — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:14:32 +0000

(where the hell is the bookmark button??)

It's the little star icon at the right inside the address textbox. If it's yellow it means the url is already bookmarked.

New comment by toemetoch in "Photo of $211,223.04 in cash The Oatmeal raised for charity"

toemetoch — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:55:32 +0000

It's cotton and linen.

New comment by toemetoch in "Mars One Project: “Humans Will Live On Mars In 2023″"

toemetoch — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 08:59:58 +0000

Fast-forward to the point of actual space colonization. Should mental stability be a factor in survival in space I can imagine that it'll introduce a rather strong darwinistic filter. It's difficult to fathom but realistic that folks with a short fuse have a severe disadvantage. Would it be required to undergo a psychiatric test before you can buy a ticket to an off-world colony and settle? Will people with a genetic predisposition be advised not to have kids? Will earth be a safe-haven for loonies?

NORAD announced Global Nuclear War in 1971

toemetoch — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:01:41 +0000

Article URL: http://gizmodo.com/5923528/this-message-from-norad-announced-world-nuclear-war-in-1971

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4202819

Points: 2

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New comment by toemetoch in "GlaxoSmithKline Pays $3 Billion Fine"

toemetoch — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:55:34 +0000

The Mitsubishi check?

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/06/12-money-shots/

Since this kind of money can disturb a bank (a bank lends a multiple of what it has floating) wouldn't it be "cleaner" if the government just opened an account at the same bank and had the money transferred there?

New comment by toemetoch in "Live CERN Higgs Announcement in 20 Mins "

toemetoch — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:40:13 +0000

This just in: "Stephen Hawking on Higgs: 'Discovery has lost me $100'"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18708626

New comment by toemetoch in "Live CERN Higgs Announcement in 20 Mins "

toemetoch — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:58:55 +0000

In December 2000, Hawking bet Gordon Kane $100 that the Higgs Boson will be discovered at the Fermilab Tevatron.

Since the funding dried up for the Tevatron and the first hints for the discovery of the Higgs boson come from LHC we can conclude that Hawking won the bet and Kane will be the one paying up.

SETI & the risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space

toemetoch — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:59:44 +0000

Article URL: http://io9.com/5921814/is-seti-at-risk-of-downloading-a-malicious-virus-from-outer-space/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4194081

Points: 13

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New comment by toemetoch in "Facebook Blames Email Problems On User "Confusion""

toemetoch — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:29:25 +0000

I guess the FB cookies in your browser is a simplified version of the token. It's used to identify you not only on FB but also on other sites that load their javascript for comments & likes. There was some anger a while back about how fb could track you with cookies even if you're logged out - due to the ubiquity of their js on the web.

New comment by toemetoch in "How Google handle leap seconds"

toemetoch — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:23:40 +0000

yes, I don't know about code but it's available in the form of an article that is detailed enough to implement it in any system.

New comment by toemetoch in "Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost"

toemetoch — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:39:37 +0000

This is a very good explanation. But it also points out that the permission system is not really helping when you want background info on what's going on - you and I know this info from a background in development. Take a look at the permissions for google maps on android as an illustration.

Microsoft’s Greek headquarters attacked by arsonists

toemetoch — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:27:03 +0000

Article URL: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/microsofts-greek-headquarters-attacked-by-arsonists/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166767

Points: 1

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New comment by toemetoch in "Launching Google +1 Recommendations Across the Web"

toemetoch — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:53:31 +0000

Esoteric keywords in google work brilliant for my sites. Then came social and I added the +1 button because of the nature of circles in g+. Birds of a feather flock together, so +1 would bump results for my sites for people in someone's circle and my reach would expand a notch. So I'm disabling the button in anticipation of a js option to disable the mousehover menu.