JamesGecko

In a world twenty years from now, quantum computing has been perfected, has been mass marketed, and has become cheap. It’s in everything; your microwave is now a supercomputer. But at the height of quantum technology’s popularity, something went wrong. The strings of theory are being cut. Horrifically bad science is being used for entertainment. If every choice made creates a new reality, the fabric of reality is weakening. As people bleed across realities unaware, they discover that their environment is reacting unpredictably to the choices they make.

Google’s Priority Inbox, despite a few hitches, is a really fantastically good idea. It highlights important emails, separating the wheat from the chaff (or the “New bank statement” from the “Joe poked you on Facebook”). With Priority Inbox, every message in Gmail has two buttons next to it. “Important” and “Not important”. By default, most messages seem to be unimportant. However, as you flag important emails, Gmail will look for patterns and start automatically determining which future messages are important.

The Wikipedia article on Paul Krugman could use some love. From the introduction: …According to the Nobel Prize Committee, the prize was given for Krugman’s work explaining the patterns of international trade and the geographic concentration of wealth, by examining the impact of economies of scale and of consumer preferences for diverse goods and services. Krugman is known in academia for his work on international economics (including trade theory, economic geography, and international finance), liquidity traps and currency crises.

The idea that THQ is somehow “disrespecting customers” with this kind of rhetoric misunderstands the situation as completely as it is possible to do so. In a literal way, when you purchase a book used, you are not a customer of theirs. If I am purchasing books in order to reward their creators, and to ensure that more of these ingenious codices are produced, I honestly can’t figure out how buying a used book was any better than bootlegging.

I’ve found the first privacy-sensitive search engine I’m actually willing to use: DuckDuckGo. I mean, when you search for a programming question and it embeds the top answer from a related StackOverflow question as the first result? Or suggests pages from the official PHP documentation if it couldn’t find other stuff that was good enough? And it has all those silly !w shortcuts to search other sites that I usually end up setting manually in every browser I use?