On a related note, I have always found this fascinating: How many n * "great" grand parents do you have? Up to 2^(n+2) (Assuming an ancestral tree (as opposed to a graph) (i.e. no inbreeding). Assuming a 20-year generation length, that means that you have somewhere on the order of 10^6 great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grand parents, all of whom were frolicking all over the world in the 1600s.
If the numbers in these charts are relative to the total number searches on Google, then it could just mean that the ratio of programming searches to non-programming searches is decreasing, (i.e. if more non-programmers are using Google, or if people don't use their phones to search for programming-related concepts on Google.)
I think you're absolutely right. I've been thinking the same ever since I started to look at programming language usage on google trends and found that almost all of them are going down most of the time.
Yes, but before Google Closure, the internet was "open source" by default. I mean am using "open source" as a strict antonym to "closed source" rather than in the legal sense. With Google Closure, developers for the first time have a practical option of making the source code of their application unparsable to the human eye. Despite the fact that it is illegal to download MP3s, 95% of all MP3 downloads. Now imagine if it was impossible to download MP3s illegally -- it would significantly impact the music industry. Analogously, Google Closure makes it virtually impossible to read the source code of websites. Given that the entire Microsoft Monopoly was founded on the fact that its source code was unreadable to the public, I think the implications of this are significant.
Found this floating around. Interesting to note that AdMob (to be sold to Google for $750M, as everyone knows), used Ext JS (before closure was released obviously). Wondering if anyone else has any thoughts comparing the two.
"Perhaps men of genius are the only true men.... Without the help of the real man, we should have found out almost nothing at all.... And the rest of us -- what are we? Teachable animals."
Yes...a cautionary tale about giving too much weight to the Intelligence Quotient metric, and how it might lend a semblance of credibility to conservative agitprop dismissive of Darwin, the university system, and progressive federal expenditures. ;-)
I think I would've been a bully rather than a hacker had I met someone this arrogant and pretentious in high school. The only amusing part of that video is when he tells the story of getting chained to a truck and dragged up the street. Clearly, that didn't happen enough times.
