The red linkage graphs would be much more comprehensible with edge bundling[1]. As it is, you get a ton of red lines that are hard to decipher. In order to show emphasis, some of the lines are orange.

[1] Something akin to https://www.evernote.com/shard/s9/res/11fab8e3-d623-4b58-a8d.... I'm sure there are libraries out that that will do this for you, but the algorithm in that paper isn't too hard to implement. :)

Your link yields "Access denied."

tednaleid, you seem to be dead. Perhaps posting a link to wikipedia with no other content auto-triggered something.

Care to elaborate?

Did not mean to be curt. But when I read articles like this I put up my shields. The article seems to describe how one side is winning but it's only part of the illusion that there is real debate about real issues being discussed in presidential elections. It's like professional wrestling, everyone know it's fake but nevertheless feverishly take sides. Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman wrote about this in their book, Manufacturing Consent.

pvdm is probably (off topic, and ..) suggesting there is an illusion of choice when it comes to the american political duopoly

  // In Java, all instances of Object are also a monitor.
  // See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_%28synchronization%29
  Foo myMonitor = new Foo()

  // To "enter" a monitor, you use 'synchronized'.
  synchronized (myMonitor) {
    // Inside the monitor, we could do a Thread.sleep.
    Thread.sleep(100);
  }

This is a very simplistic problem case. However, it is very possible for this to become a bigger problem. Because I can call arbitrary code when "inside" a monitor, it is very possible to call a method that does a sleep incidentally. (e.g. many implementations of IO operations will require some sort of sleep.)

You could test that the logging and parsing are in step, which then reduces the developer time to "Doh, red test" and a simple fix.

Why increase your burden even to that? Computers are there to do stupid repetitive stuff for us so we don't have to. Why design a logging format that requires even minimal manual intervention to keep automated parsing working?

So...integrate quick scripts to get a count of IP addresses into your app's test suite?

I think the author is trying to make a poorly articulated argument that the _intent_ of G+ is not to "kill" Facebook, but instead improve Google's targeted advertising capabilities. To some extent, this is true, but I'm not sure if it is a relevant distinction. If Google had the option to replace Facebook wholesale, I'm sure they'd jump at the chance. Perhaps "not competing" is merely a way of lowering expectations?

How about the version of Siri that existed before being subsumed by Apple? I had never heard of it, though it seems that the tech was relatively the same.

From what I've heard the earlier version didn't have the same level of integration with other apps

> The relationship soured after they came to doubt his reincarnation credentials and found that his claims of cancer were false.

As someone who knows very little of Buddhism, what sorts of "reincarnation credentials" is an executive-level reincarnate supposed to have? Is this like claiming to have an MBA but leaving out the University of Phoenix part?

Short version: most branches of Buddhism don't have this kind of notion at all-- it is pretty unique to Tibetan Buddhism, where there are a relatively small number of tulku lineages, where a person can be recognized as an incarnation of the prior holder of the lineage. (The Dalai Lama is the most famous example-- the current Dalai Lama is the 14th in the series.) Incarnations are officially recognized by other tulkus, according to tradition; for example, the Dalai Lama is usually recognized by the Panchen Lama.

Without knowing the details in this case, I am assuming that the person in question falsely claimed to have been recognized as a tulku. I can't imagine that this was part of the job requirements.

So, an analog would be falsely claiming on your CV to have won a prestigious award (say, the Turing Award).

It's a pretty outrageous lie; but then again, so is claiming to have cancer.

i was almost taking this article serious until i got to that point.

It's a bunch a new-age gurus fighting among themselves. Nothing to see here.

now i'm picturing Mr. Natural in a jail in Maryland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Natural_(comics)

Private browsing won't stop google from logging anything. It will make it so your browser doesn't remember what you did, but it doesn't stop the authorities from knocking.

Maybe sugar is toxic. I don't know (and there seem to be some pretty reasonable opinions both ways). However, there is a line in the article that really stands out to me:

"If Lustig is right, it would mean that sugar is also the likely dietary cause of several other chronic ailments widely considered to be diseases of Western lifestyles — heart disease, hypertension and many common cancers among them."

I can't tell if this is the author of the article extrapolating sugar's toxicity to explain the root of all ills, or whether Lustig makes that assertion. Either way, there doesn't seem to be anything more than postulation on that front. I'm hoping the purported science behind this theory is actually sound and not just fluff so that we get into arguments about sugar based on incorrect assumptions.