Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in “monkeynomics” shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too.
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Daily Archives: August 6, 2010
Google Waves Goodbye to Wave
On Thursday, Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President of Operations, blogged on the official Google Blog (which, funnily enough, is just some blogspot blog, but whatever) that Google would no longer be developing Google Wave. Key elements of the technology are OpenSource so they may continue to be used and developed but Google itself is phasing out the project.
Wanted
Wanted: A bash command that undoes the previous bash command. The name of the command shall be “oops.” It will be written in an object oriented programming language.
See the whole “WANTED” list here.