The Ipad issue which is gorgeous as well, actually has a video where they do confirm that they had a lot of the content already done before and they pulled in all-nighters as soon as they heard about his death to put it all together.

Its not always the right thing as there are years of issues/corner cases that have been resolved.

I wonder why they even have the "I am lucky" or even the Google Search button as tyrping even a letter takes me to the results page.

This and many of such psychological effects are described brilliantly in Dan Ariely's book Predictably Irrational. Amazon link : http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expande...

He also talks about all the experiments he did to support such claims.

The main reason unit tests are useful: catching regression bugs.

Some good tips here.

http://calnewport.com/blog/category/tips-notetaking/

nice googling job!

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I think this is cool, but profit per employee would be more interesting.

Although this is not still available for India, Bing maps has had this from about a year now.

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Not sure what happened to your link.

http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/maps/archive/2008/09/24/...