I was watching JavaScript: The Good Parts, and learned that Javascript has a feature semicolon insertion. I didn't know that.

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What I found interesting was YouTube had 9 people working for them when google bought them. The video also has some interesting information about the scalability problems they ran into.

I am writing this with a program called dasher ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like Google put that image label guessing game on their webs

Another Google engEDU today!

The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less talks about the negative side to giving people more choices ( Read more... )

One thing I like to do is learn things that might not directly relate to my job or hobbies. Google engEDU videos have been very edutaining for that.

One example of that, Human Computation is harnessing brain power to solve problems that are hard to solve with computers. In it, he gives the amusing statistic: "9 billion human-hours of solitare ( Read more... )

Google has a 26 minute video on ARPAnet from 1972

Hooray for history!

Video of Hans Reiser's presentation of reiserfs4 at Google is available. He has some interesting points, like "Expressive power of an OS proportional to number of component connections not number of components ( Read more... )