From what I understand, with this, you can have pretty much have anything you want from anyone. An insignificant latte: Gratis; no payment required.

Ruby vs Node or Ruby vs Node vs Perl

The Google trends supplied in your link used generic search terms, seriously skewing the results inaccurately about programming languages. Stuff about reptiles, famous comedy acts and things such as an infamous Italian scandal (and whatever else) were being included. By replacing the display with terms specific to programming, this version showing trends for searches about programming languages in Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Java and Nodejs should show something a little more meaningful.

Since the summary is more interested in just Ruby and Node and those trends with the other 3 are difficult evaluate, showing those two together, separated from the others, helps in the evaluation. (I left out Python, not due to any agenda of my own; there were problems with the search terms I wasn't able to resolve.) Fwiw, when it comes to the top regional preferences for these two languages: Japan is for Ruby while South Korea & Iran are for Nodejs. (Cuba prefers PHP).

After my comment was posted (the one I'm replying to now), the OP's moderation changed from +4 Funny to +5 Insightful.

The reference to cringing seemed to be an understatement and appropriate, regardless of the salute's original intentions, due to its negative aspects being brought to light by the fascist states embracing it so well too well as to co-opt its ownership and meaning.

A lot of parents of different religious faiths and political affiliations, in the U.S. at least, don't like the idea of someone getting emotionally involved with their children and telling them to verbally profess allegiance or worship to an idea or image — partly due, correctly or incorrectly, to that bad worldwide experience.

Fwiw, the moderation is creepy considering that the first 30 years of the Pledge of Allegiance required everyone to put their right arm straight out, palm down, before it was changed to placing their right hand over their heart.

The original mouse included within the 1968 "(Mother of all demos) Demonstration" presented by the inventor, Doug Engelbart.

The Marine Corps. There are 3 levels: marksman, sharpshooter and expert. He was rated as a sharpshooter in 1956. In a 1959 test, his ability declined to marksman.

By the way, his brother (still alive) feels Lee was a whack job that was doing it on his own. Didn't know he had a brother near his own age — the surprises never end.

Easy mistake. Abraxas: [ (evil + d = devil) + (good - o = god) % do ]

Just a doffing of the hat to Demian.

I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals.

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.

~ Agent Smith

I beleive that used to be called Railroad Time.

The many different railway times across the North American continent were based on the local (high-noon) times determined by thousands of communities. The problems it created with the railroads, some serious, eventually resulted in the railroad companies to create and determine the borders of the four time zones presently used; without getting government approval, which included ignoring the demands of everyone who wanted the Sun to be at high-noon in their community.

The die-hards were still using the long list of local times published by the railroad companies well into the late 1950's before.

can't...stop...must...resist...OHNOES :O

The correct spelling for the retarded word is: millennial (or millennium). Status @ 148 comments: 13 millenials; 6 millennials. (If this is some kind of thing millennial, nevermind.)

You're right, sort of. I mentioned this earlier and why I felt I "mislead myself" (and a couple of other readers who may not agree for the same reasons) in a follow up comment under my original post. In hindsight, instead of doing a poorly thought out incomplete quip, it would have been better from the start to take the time to write both comments as one.

I read most of the article myself and avoided the original paper. It's was a little over my head making my best guess at a simplistic takeaway for the layman, like myself, appears to be: Electrons, under certain conditions, won't repel from one another as they normally do and instead pair off with each other to create superconducting properties. The authors feel they've developed an explanation that will allow one to predictably manipulate this property with better materials for future technologies. The challenge now is to confirm their explanation is correct by finding a way to apply their ideas. This is hopefully close enough; however,any improvements or clarifications on its accuracy is desired (and expected).

As for the title: Yes, I'm aware it obviously wasn't implying this would resolve the Grand Unified Theory of everything. However, during the first half a second on my first read, I did initially think it had something to do with that idea the phrase for G.U.T. is traditionally reserved for when it's discussed in articles related to science and technology. Then, much to my disappointment I realized my mistake; the writers were probably doing it to capture the reader by baiting the article with a little bit of sensationalism. It's called marketing and story tellers do it to "engage" the reader, which they have every right to do. I'll need to try a little harder at keeping my wishes in check to avoid that type of manipulation.

How about: Is the summary title from the article misleading? Will success at finding a technological solution for High-TC also unify quantum mechanics and general relativity.

Fwiw, Richard Feynam's Caltech commencement address, "Cargo Cult Science" — in your own voice. :)

His description, near the end, of an A-number-one experiment done in psychology and its subsequent disregard is a satandalone classic and probably the best part, imho.