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Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet 229

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @05:09AM from the one-downmanship dept.

BuzzSkyline writes "Ukrainian researchers have managed to take pictures of atoms that reveal structure of the electron clouds surrounding carbon nuclei in unprecedented detail. Although the images offer no surprises (they look much like the sketches of electron orbitals included in high school science texts), this is the first time that anyone has directly imaged atoms at this level, rather than inferring the structure of the orbitals from indirect measurements such as electron or X-ray interferometry."

Dinosaur Auction In Las Vegas 82

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 14, 2009 @08:52AM from the seven-thousand-years-old dept.

Xerfas writes "If you ever dreamed of owning your own dinosaur, here's your chance. Possibly the most impressive natural history auction ever is set to take place Oct. 3 at the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas. Here you can find everything from the T.rex to a duck-billed dinosaur and a mammoth skeleton."

Twitter On Scala 324

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @04:35PM from the going-off-the-rails dept.

machaut writes "Twitter, one of the highest profile Ruby on Rails-backed websites on the Internet, has in the past year started replacing some of their Ruby infrastructure with an emerging language called Scala, developed by Martin Odersky at Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Although they still prefer Ruby on Rails for user-facing web applications, Twitter's developers have started replacing Ruby daemon servers with Scala alternatives, and plan eventually to serve API requests, which comprise the majority of their traffic, with Scala instead of Ruby. This week several articles have appeared that discuss this shift at Twitter. A technical interview with three Twitter developers was published on Artima. One of those developers, Alex Payne, Twitter's API lead, gave a talk on this subject at the Web 2.0 Expo this week, which was covered by Technology Review and The Register."

Comment Easy Solution (Score 1) 355

by pilambp on Monday October 23, 2006 @11:14AM (#16546792) Attached to: Google Adjusts Hiring Processes

Rather than have Brin or Page show up at each interview, Google can develop a series of "Brain Teasers" that they can ask during the interview process. That would be novel!

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