Last time I was in San Jose, I was surprised by how terrible the WiFi was at the hotel I stayed at. You could tell most of the guests were programmers, yet I could barely get 96k. And I specifically asked for a room close to the router. I guess maybe the boom in Silicon Valley means hotels can fill rooms without having competitive WiFi?

So true... I've stayed at the fairmont in SF and San Jose, both of which charge $15 for slow internet (unless you opt for the club where they usually bill you anyway and use your information to bombard you with ads). They even charge for the crap gym haha. I tend to steer clear now

The Fairmont put in wifi in the ninties, and let the dust collect. I worked at that facade. The Swiglets were too cheap to upgrade. RIP dad!

Could it simply be higher ratio of bandwidth hungry wireless consumers just saturating their reasonable network?

I've seen something similar: in middle school a classmate tied the rope around themselves to anchor the back of the line. He was pretty badly injured when the other team pulled him over and dragged him across the field, pulling the loop tight. I never thought about a rope snapping, though.

This basically wraps a bunch of useful libraries for android.

You might want to change the videos format to HTML5 or just download it because the flash player was giving me problems.

In the first part, Rich explains some of the features and design decisions in Clojure, and during the last few minutes he gives an overview of Datomic.

I piped it straight to mplayer and the server streamed it smoothly. Just in case someone wonders.

I thought it would be a longer bidirectional discussion more than an interview of Hickey by Meijer. Still nice to see them both.

It's a pity that infographics are abused so often, because they're honestly not a terrible way to communicate interesting statistics. I mean, the fact that they're getting ordinary people to look at data and pass it along to friends is pretty impressive. They do have an accountability problem though. Someone should build a platform for making, sourcing, and commenting on them.

Thanks for this. It's hard to find good examples that are so thoroughly explained and aren't trivial.

Why must journalists exaggerate every science headline?

The irony is that the real headline is more exciting, which is that there is a specimen orbiting earth, just waiting to be brought back for inspection.

I don't have much to add that hasn't been said in the other comments here, but a currency with a "market capitalization" of $30 million can never be stable. A single wealthy person could easily move the market a significant percentage.

I want to thank you for this. I hadn't ever tried programming until I watched some videos for a Stanford Java course a year ago, and I've been working my ass off at it ever since. It turns out this is something I really enjoy and want to continue doing. I'll definitely be applying.

I'm confused as to what's being measured in OP's link vs. your links. Is the OP's link measuring number of searches and your trends link measuring the number of daily visitors?

Also, I know the reddit admins have mentioned a number of times that third-party statistics about their visitor count are wildly wrong.