The timing of Google's AMP project is especially interesting considering the recent attention ad blockers have received.
By limiting the functionality of pages, AMP makes them load faster, but also allows publishers to include ads. The ads however, can't run JavaScript (or Flash) and so should be a lot less obnoxious.
There's no reason to only use AMP on mobile though - AMP content renders equally well, and fast, on the desktop. These extensions for Safari and Chrome will redirect to AMP URLs for content that has them.
It very much depends on the employer. I've hired people who haven't studied Computer Science (or even a science or engineering degree) and found that they can be a mixed bag. Generally they can program, but the quality of their code and the way they approach problems isn't always as good as people who have been taught Computer Science.
Also, and please don't take this the wrong way as you were posting on HN, not applying for a job, but if you don't have a degree I'd expect you to be more than just a great programmer. The structure of your first sentence would ring alarm bells for me. It's not just your technical abilities that are important but all your skills, including communication.
Looking at iPhoto "Journal", Apple probably decided they couldn't redistribute Google maps so switched to OSM. Just a shame they didn't do it within the parameters of OSM's license.
Hopefully this was a mistake rather than Apple thinking they either didn't need to adhere to a license or that they could just bully their way to what they want.
If your device is rooted you're more likely to have routes for malware to get onto the device. When money is being moved out of your bank account, malware is the last thing you want on the device
If you're not familiar, it's definitely worth checking out WebWorks (https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/html5/). Even though it is advertised to work on BB5+ it's only really worth considering at 6+.
Also, definitely worth a look is bbUI.js (https://github.com/blackberry/bbUI.js/). It's still very much beta, but RIM are doing a lot of the UI hardwork for you; without it you end up with a white screen and have craft the UI yourself. It's a bit like jQTouch for BlackBerry.
I'm seeing something odd with the way you're building the results HTML - on Safari 5.1.2 text search doesn't pick up the majority of instances of a string.
For example, the term you're searching against is only showing up 4 times, when it appears over 1000. It works fine in Chrome 16.
It's useful for times when you see a name you like but want to find the reverse combination.
If you're on an untrusted computer, the network is by definition also untrusted.
What happens if the computer has a hacker's self-signed certificate for https://accounts.google.com installed and the hacker sets up a man-in-the-middle style attack?
The hacker's browser asks Google for a QR code and it gets sent to your browser. When you scan the code and authorise from your phone, the hacker's browser would be logged into your Google account.
I can't work out if that would be possible or not.
It might be possible to plot the location of a single point in 2D, but how would you differentiate for multitouch? If you have 2 microphones you might be able to calculate the distance from each microphone of a touch by timing how long it takes for the sound of the tap to reach each microphone. However, as the speed of sound in wood appears to be ~4000 m/s (http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/sound-speed-solids-d_713.h...) you'd need to be "listening" at 400kHz to get centimetre accuracy over a 1m square area.
I can't see how it would be possible to then differentiate between two points moving at the same time (i.e. a pinch gesture). I'm just assuming regular microphones are used as the article suggests - I'm not an acoustic engineer so hopefully I've missed something.