Tagged as “human ingenuity

Why doesn’t Google Docs update every half second like Etherpad does? Because it’s really, really hard. We’re fairly experienced programmers, and to make this work we had to solve problems that, as far as we know, no one had solved before.
Etherpad. The site is much prettier than it was a few months ago.

petervidani:

Luis von Ahn, creator of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, talks about what his company has been doing with the service and its 400,000,000 person workforce. This blew me away.

This is innovation.

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