Yes, the ajax loading is much less intrusive than loading a new page. It makes it far easier to search through the existing results. It needs one or two UI changes:
1) When you click 'more results' add a divider before the first new result to make it clear which new results just appeared. In most cases the first new link will already be highlighted since the mouse will be hovering overy it but any antsy mouser will not have this benefit.
Also, I notice that I have the tendency (and need) to move the mouse off the first new link so I can read it. This is very inefficient so it would best to append the new results one line below the 'more links' link.
2) Consider adding an auto-scroll to put the first new result at the top or middle of the page to reduce scrolling. This may be disruptive, however.
I became a programmer in spite of high school. I had started programming a bit around seventh grade, due in part to the years of joy my Commodore 64 had afforded me.
I was looking forward to taking the lone computer science course at my high school, but learned that it was only offered to International Baccalaureate (IB) students and not the regular advanced placement (AP) students. BTW, The IB program is a sham as those students shared most of my classes yet received more recognition. Compounding my anger, my friends that took the programming class did not want to enroll in it.
I developed a love of coding by experiencing the results of coding (e.g. games, early web browsers, email, etc) and discovering the computer could solve a problem an infinite number of times as long as I solved it merely once. I developed a knowledge of coding by taking courses in college and reading books on my own time.
I can't live without the vimperator plugin now. It's so nice to browse without using the mouse. I can't go back. If only Firefox had Opera's password storage interface I would be ecstatic.
Chrome offers nothing new right now aside from potential performance gains. If the beta version is crashing, that is worse for performance than slow-loading pages.
Most people that go to the gym are mainly trying to look better so those people should be doing heavy lifting. Even most training calls for time with heavy weights. Thus, the 45 minute or so rule. You point out a major caveat: Most people are not going anywhere near their limits. Around 45 minutes of high weight/volume training, one should naturally notice a loss of power not quit prematurely due to a stopwatch.
A (fat) person once told me she heard some advice that one should do cardio at a pace in which one will not experience heavy breathing and still be able to hold a conversation with the person next to them. What's next? Laying in bed as cardio?
Beginner advice: It's better to go out and just do something rather than overthinking it. Look at the people who are skinny, ripped, massive, fast, or whatever your goal is and do what they do. Many people apply premature optimization to working out. Diet matters but guys in prison become huge on three square meals a day. Sets and reps matter but Arnold wrote something to the effect of, "I don't know why beginners worry so much about details. If you are bad at pull ups, do as many pull ups as you can, rest, repeat." The key is to push yourself and measure your progress to make sure you are actually improving.
Do train like a madman, but not for more than an hour at a time. There are diminishing returns and, sometimes, losses. Weight training is definitely superior to cardio, but you need both.
If you are specifically trying to lose weight, limiting calories is key, but you must eat plenty before and after these madman workouts and then don't eat as much on non-workout days. Just be sure to eat healthy stuff with a good ratio of macro nutrients. If you don't, the training will be more difficult and less effective.
Luckily, your body should be pretty good at telling you when it's hungry. Don't fight it (much). Diet and exercise info is all over the map, but the basics I have mentioned here are more or less undisputed.
I like this bit: "It also looks at articles that contain flags like (sp?), which is the author telling us that he or she failed high school English."
The poor spelling found on the Internet creates a positive feedback loop that makes it increasingly difficult to spell words properly.
Before wide acceptance of the Web, most written words appeared in magazines, books, newspapers, and other sources which were, hopefully, reviewed by professionals with more knowledge of spelling than the average person. If you were unsure of a spelling you could write out the word and easily recognize if the word matched the ordering of letters that you had seen so many times before.
Now, for some words, you've probably seen the improper spelling more often than the correct spelling. That makes it more difficult to recall or recognize the proper spelling. For children subjected to this misspelling onslaught at an early age, it must be worse. I suppose many of these spelling problems would not even exist if English were a more intuitive written language. However, I expect this all to go away as grammar checkers are embedded into web browsers.
Why not just buy a damn coffee pot and stay at home, providing you have enough space for an office. You can play whatever music you want, without ear-damaging headphones, and you don't have an endless stream of distractions, providing you don't have children.
When I'm coding on my laptop I'm probably at 50% efficiency compared to my desktop. I've got a giant Kinesis keyboard (great tool, but expensive), a big mouse pad, a 24" monitor, a subwoofer, a second pc, a stack of books, etc. One cannot replicate such an environment in a coffe shop.
A coffee shop is probably great for relaxing, brainstorming, having an occasional change of scenery, and writing children's novels, but I can't imagine it's an efficient way to produce complex software. Most importantly, I would never be able to concentrate, feeling like I am imposing by sitting in the shop for hours. Obviously, others enjoy sitting in coffee shops, but how many of you are doing complex work while there? Or do you save the light work for coffee shop visits?
1) When you click 'more results' add a divider before the first new result to make it clear which new results just appeared. In most cases the first new link will already be highlighted since the mouse will be hovering overy it but any antsy mouser will not have this benefit.
Also, I notice that I have the tendency (and need) to move the mouse off the first new link so I can read it. This is very inefficient so it would best to append the new results one line below the 'more links' link.
2) Consider adding an auto-scroll to put the first new result at the top or middle of the page to reduce scrolling. This may be disruptive, however.