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Holy crap - XMPP support in AppEngine now! Now AppEngine has a real-time communication infrastructure.

Quoted: A list of 25 best programmer webcomics (with some bonus webcomics). Really funny and interesting ones. From python to databases. Everything is here.

Quoted: Put simply, it’s better than the NY Times front page because:

Wow.

Quoted: For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. "It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan.

Quoted: Now, I don't actually know much about real samurai, but the basic thing I've heard is they stand and stare at each other for hours, and then suddenly BAM strike once and the other guy is down.

Quoted: That's how you should code.

Quoted: During the holiday season, several roads in my town were temporarily closed due to flooding. I was naturally worried how the road closures would affect traffic. But in the end, my fears were unfounded. Not only was traffic mostly unaffected, I often found my travel times were reduced!

Quoted: This experience made no sense to me. If traffic is about too many cars on the roads, how could blocking some roads speed my commute? Or conversely, why might adding roads slow my commute?

Quoted: I did a little bit of research and came across an interesting game theoretic explanation known as the Braess paradox. It states that it’s possible that adding a road could lead to slower travel for all drivers. Let’s go through an example to see why.

Quoted: There is a little overlap on this list with our previous list “Top 10 Scientists Killed Or Injured By Their Experiments” - but there are sufficiently new people here to make this a definite must-have list for the site. In the pursuit of greater knowledge, there is risk to life and limb. The people on this list took the risk and died - but not before making progress for all man. Here are 10 great inventors who died (in a round-about way) at their own hands.

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Derek, I think you faved this a couple years ago already, but see it on super slow mo. Pretty incredible.

Quoted: Slow motion video of SawStop feat inventor Steve Gass. Watch Time Warp on the Discovery Channel Wednesdays at 8pm ET/PT http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/time-war...