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Google Programming Contest Winner
asqui writes "The First Annual Google Programming Contest, announced about 4 months ago has ended. The winner is Daniel Egnor, a former Microsoft employee. His project converted addresses found in documents to latitude-longitude coordinates and built a two-dimensional index of these coordinates, thereby allowing you to limit your query to a certain radius from a geographical location. Good for difficult questions like "Where is the nearest all-night pizza place that will deliver at this hour?". Unfortunately there is no mention whether this technology is on its way to the google labs yet. There are also details of 5 other excellent project submissions that didn't quite make it."
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You realize that CmdrTaco and his other junkies ONLY read the comments with linux based browsers.
This page widening only affects IE. Posting them will not cause them to go up in arms.
Pestering them on sourceforge and causing a general ruckus is the only way...
Stop modding this up. Its sarcasm, and it sucks even at that.
No, instead of whining, we just view the articles at +1 and above.
All you are doing is preventing people from seeing the funny trolls and troll fiction with IE.
Sorry, dude. Your crusade is in vain. Just give up. If you don't post PWP, then most other crapflooders won't either. Its old and pointless.
Please mod this pathetic karma whore down asap.
Right, b/c Google, with its millions of daily hits is going to be Slashdotted.
You, sir, are an idiot.
Date : 1st April, 2001
Subject : [ANNOUNCE] The Jihad is beginning
Dear Linux Followers,
The Time has came, our mortal enemy of windows infamy has been defeated, its bastile of stocks has crumbled, and the god has been merficully enough to send earthquake to the heardquarters of satan himself.
NOW, linux followers, we must move on to fight our true enemy nobody else but the satan himself. THE DEVIL! It has got to go. It must die. I'm proclaiming the holy jihad against BSD.
Whoever is using FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenBSD is your enemy. Estrange them.
I'm in talk with Afghanistan Taliban (of buddha fame destroyers) they will help us anihilate BSD mascots! Linux mascots must prevail!!!
All you base are belong to us!!!!!!!!!! [*]
Linus,
[*] this is what "World Domination, Fast!" has been deprecicated by.
I thought it was funny
Widened. Bitch.
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dude, you're replying to a troll. why bother?
Interesting write up -- of course Apple had a relativley robust OS that would only crash three or four times a day and would eat itself regularly.
DOS was ugly. It worked and was reliable. It was even much faster than the MAC dreamed of being.
Bill G. didn't write it. He bought it. He grew it from what it started from to the #1 OS in the world for a long time.
Of course, Steve didn't think up the idea behind the original MAC GUI on his own either. He borrowed it from Xerox (note: borrowed it, not illegal but also not licensed, purchased or in any other way paying homage to the creators).
Or you could go to Yahoo! Yellow Pages and search for pizza places sorted by proximity to your house. I do it all the time with all sorts of locations.
For more information, click here.
Don't know where you live, but Pizza Pizza allows you to go to their site and order pizza online (after you register) for some regions, most notably Toronto. Unfortunately their app is some POS Oracle thing that takes forever to do even the slightest thing like adding a topping (good 10-30 seconds between clicking a button and seeing the order frame change - with my cable connect and decent comp (733 w/ 384 megs), so it can take 10 minutes or longer for a complex order, plus delivery.
BTW, this isn't O/T in the context of this thread.
My other sig is funny!