Funny, I thought Scala was a fully compiled, statically type-checked language (at least as much as Java is). A language is not a scripting language just because it doesn't suck.

It's amazing how many people read so little about the Hyperloop that they think it uses magnetic levitation.

The acquisitions that work have been well worth the cost of all the failed acquisitions combined. Android, maps, docs, Youtube, Doubleclick, etc. Well, Youtube may not be making cash right now, but it sure brings in a lot of users to Google properties.

Insane for whom? We recently had to increase our MaxClients from 150 to 256 to 400 to 800, and we're only running on Large instances on Amazon (7.5GB of RAM). Production workloads vary widely, and I think 150 is a pretty reasonable default for many (if not most) applications.

No, that makes him incorrect. 140,000 kg/sec is not more than 100,000 tonnes/sec.

I have the latest Sony Google TV set-top box, and it's actually a pretty great setup. It'll even stream automatically re-encoded video streams from my Windows 7 video library over wifi, including totally automatic discovery of my Windows 7 machine. This is the perfect setup--I have my machine set up far away from my TV, but all the content I have there is available on my TV.

That's fascinating. An Apple fanboy of the highest order came into the office raving about Siri (which, in Apple's infinite wisdom, he was excluded from since he has an iPhone 4). He said, "You can just say, 'text Brian I'm running late for work', and it'll send him a text!!!" I got out my Android phone, held down the search button for 2 seconds to bring up voice search, and said, "text Brian I'm running late for work." Of course, it worked perfectly. "Yeah, but you can use it to find places on maps, too!" "Navigate to the Energy Solutions Arena." Worked perfectly. "Yeah, but it's... you know... it's just better because it works really good. It's the first time this has been done right!" It's incredible to me how some people's critical thinking skills break down in the reality distortion field.

I get a pretty steady 6Mpbs down/1.5Mbps up on my Evo 3D here in Salt Lake City. In Las Vegas I get about 10/1.5. Coverage in the Bay Area is a little more spotty (especially on highways), but I had a pretty solid connection in downtown San Francisco, Milpitas, and many other locations.

Quick quiz: How many of the top 10 web sites in the world (as listed by Alexa) are powered primarily by Java?

1) Google
2) Facebook
3) Youtube
4) Yahoo
5) Windows Live
6) Blogger
7) Wikipedia
8) Baidu
9) Twitter
10) qq.com

Hint: It rhymes with "Nero"

Um, yeah, this article was already thoroughly debunked and disowned by its original publisher, Lancet, back in 2004. Ten of the twelve original contributing authors made an official statement in Lancet that they'd been deceived by false data created by Wakefield and wanted to get their names erased from that lie. Why is this still news?

"block" in the diagramming sense, not as in an HTML div. Each frame consists of handling the mocked-up mouse events, adjusting the model of the diagram, including adjusting any lines that are attached to that block, then re-rendering as much of the page as necessary to reflect those updates. There's actually a LOT of javascript being run there, a fair amount of canvas rendering, text reflowing, DOM manipulation, and so forth. In other words, all the stuff that makes a real web app run these days.