Sometimes crowdsourcing works. Sometimes it does not. This is an example that shows how wrong it can go. Brizzly Guide is a sideproduct from the great Twitter client “Brizzly”. In that guide every user can add a description about a trending Twitter topic. And as of now, easter is a trending topic. The given explanation […]
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The Bad, the ugly and the worthless It’s Sunday evening and people are waiting for the Oscar ceremony to start. And while waiting, I gave some free online translation tools a spin. If you do not understand German, you will not have to much fun in this post, sorry. Here are the nominations Yahoo Bing […]
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Question A Which of these places is NOT a Swiss Canton? 1) Graubuenden 2) Zuerich 3) Arrau 4) Basel-Stadt Question B Which one of these cities does not exist? 1) Schaffhausen 2) Arrau 3) Ilanz 4) Sion The correct answers are: A3 & B2 Well, Google Employees do not need to know that. They say […]
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You use Google, Yahoo, Live.com or whatever search engine every day. The most important thing a search engine hast to do is give you the right result(s) for your query. So, what you really care about is the relevance of the results. You don’t care how long it took the search engine to come up […]
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public static final float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I Constant Value: 3.5303614E-7 From the Android SDK. Could anybody confirm the value before it exploded? Thanks Thomas!
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Dijkstra probably hates me. Source: Linux Kernel Source Code kernel/sched.c
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