If you were in school, it is very possible you did watch it live: "With Christa McAuliffe set to be the first teacher in space, NASA had arranged a satellite broadcast of the full mission into television sets in many…
Some brief searching ("cooking rice with seawater") indicates that at a minimum you can use seawater diluted with fresh water for cooking if your survival depends on it. Seawater is around 3.5% salt. For perspective,…
The next worst is when there are only a handful of search results and the top one is a forum post with replies saying the answer is easily available, and the OP should have used Google first. The remaining results being…
Varasano also rejects the "special water" claim. I think the historically poor quality of pizza in rural areas is due to the "trade secret" recipe factors (which Varasano identifies) not being widely shared. I've been…
className is a small inconvenience when porting over an existing app to react (e.g. pasting in existing html), as is the requirement for style parameters to be objects. className is a quick find replace, but style is a…
You basically just described Cat Programming 101.
Consider Phlebas is one of the few books I have read more than once. The Culture series is unparalleled. Surface Detail is probably my pick for #1, as Consider Phlebas isn't really set within the Culture proper, so…
Apple could shrink the touchbar enough to have space for the esc key. They could have also included a single classic USB type A receptacle and kept the magsafe power connector... so who knows.
Agreed, "mayonnaise man" sounds like an internet legend in the making. To claim it is not beautiful without a link, but give such a fascinating description...
I would like to find a laptop with a touchpad as good as a 2010 MacBook Pro. I'm not aware of any, and this article seems to confirm it: http://www.businessinsider.com/macbook-touchpad-better-than-...
That has always been my response to John Searle's Chinese Room [1] thought experiment. The argument boils down to the human consciousness either being magic or not. Magic being something beyond physics. 1:…
http://www.idsoftware.com/business/history "Taking its name from Freud's primal, instinct-driven face of the human psyche, id Software is, by general acknowledgement, the coolest game shop in the world."
My observation of HN is that any link title mentioning cargo cult or skeuomorphism is upvoted into orbit. It is worth reading the wikipedia article on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult I've always…
I was involved in the creation of the Arduino CEC library, so I instantly recognized the schematic included in the PDF on page 17. My hardware implementation of interface is here: http://www.andrewncarr.com/hdmi/ (I…
I can easily imagine that MS store employees have been instructed to do this as a result of this issue. If that is the case, good responsiveness from MS. Somewhat reminds me of the following story. Not exactly, but it…
>The difficulty is that anything more complex is TOO complex as an example. This sums it up. "Todo" examples are intended as a web/js-framework equivalent to the traditional "Hello World" example used to introduce a…
Countdown to 5 more HN posts with open source reimplementations of Oracle's new UI style. With proper CSS of course, none of those center tags. By tomorrow every blog story linked will be using this ultra minimalist…
There is nothing magical about attributes in C#, they are a well defined way to declaratively add meta data to your methods, and I've always found them quite useful and effective. Here are a few links that may be…
I would argue that if your team delivered good stuff, mostly on schedule, and your team was happy, then you were good at being a manager. The company failing despite your team deliver quality product hints that there…
It doesn't, according to Moxie Marlinspike and others. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/state_of_ssl_analysi... If you haven't seen any of Marlinspikes presentations, you are missing out on some fascinating…
I wonder if this is a tacit acceptance of the DIY hackintosh. Has anyone seen hacintoshes used by audio/video pros for production work? Everything I've read over the last year seems to imply that Apple is losing…
Ever notice how when a female politician wears an outfit a second time, it results in a great deal of criticism from tabloid media? I male politician could wear the same suit every day, varying the tie (or even keeping…
tl;dr: eBooks have the potential to be a superior product by virtue of being digital, but the current marketplace is shoveling crap that is inferior to the printed editions, at higher prices. Also, DRM.
The Raspberry Pi is 1/3 the cost, and at 3.5watts, the Raspberry Pi is far more efficient than the 150watt power supply on this thing.
>I think if you were to ask most 30-50 year olds if they could drop most of their current responsibilities (with impunity) and go to college full time, the vast majority would. No. Especially not in the "Information…
If you were in school, it is very possible you did watch it live: "With Christa McAuliffe set to be the first teacher in space, NASA had arranged a satellite broadcast of the full mission into television sets in many…
Some brief searching ("cooking rice with seawater") indicates that at a minimum you can use seawater diluted with fresh water for cooking if your survival depends on it. Seawater is around 3.5% salt. For perspective,…
The next worst is when there are only a handful of search results and the top one is a forum post with replies saying the answer is easily available, and the OP should have used Google first. The remaining results being…
Varasano also rejects the "special water" claim. I think the historically poor quality of pizza in rural areas is due to the "trade secret" recipe factors (which Varasano identifies) not being widely shared. I've been…
className is a small inconvenience when porting over an existing app to react (e.g. pasting in existing html), as is the requirement for style parameters to be objects. className is a quick find replace, but style is a…
You basically just described Cat Programming 101.
Consider Phlebas is one of the few books I have read more than once. The Culture series is unparalleled. Surface Detail is probably my pick for #1, as Consider Phlebas isn't really set within the Culture proper, so…
Apple could shrink the touchbar enough to have space for the esc key. They could have also included a single classic USB type A receptacle and kept the magsafe power connector... so who knows.
Agreed, "mayonnaise man" sounds like an internet legend in the making. To claim it is not beautiful without a link, but give such a fascinating description...
I would like to find a laptop with a touchpad as good as a 2010 MacBook Pro. I'm not aware of any, and this article seems to confirm it: http://www.businessinsider.com/macbook-touchpad-better-than-...
That has always been my response to John Searle's Chinese Room [1] thought experiment. The argument boils down to the human consciousness either being magic or not. Magic being something beyond physics. 1:…
http://www.idsoftware.com/business/history "Taking its name from Freud's primal, instinct-driven face of the human psyche, id Software is, by general acknowledgement, the coolest game shop in the world."
My observation of HN is that any link title mentioning cargo cult or skeuomorphism is upvoted into orbit. It is worth reading the wikipedia article on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult I've always…
I was involved in the creation of the Arduino CEC library, so I instantly recognized the schematic included in the PDF on page 17. My hardware implementation of interface is here: http://www.andrewncarr.com/hdmi/ (I…
I can easily imagine that MS store employees have been instructed to do this as a result of this issue. If that is the case, good responsiveness from MS. Somewhat reminds me of the following story. Not exactly, but it…
>The difficulty is that anything more complex is TOO complex as an example. This sums it up. "Todo" examples are intended as a web/js-framework equivalent to the traditional "Hello World" example used to introduce a…
Countdown to 5 more HN posts with open source reimplementations of Oracle's new UI style. With proper CSS of course, none of those center tags. By tomorrow every blog story linked will be using this ultra minimalist…
There is nothing magical about attributes in C#, they are a well defined way to declaratively add meta data to your methods, and I've always found them quite useful and effective. Here are a few links that may be…
I would argue that if your team delivered good stuff, mostly on schedule, and your team was happy, then you were good at being a manager. The company failing despite your team deliver quality product hints that there…
It doesn't, according to Moxie Marlinspike and others. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/state_of_ssl_analysi... If you haven't seen any of Marlinspikes presentations, you are missing out on some fascinating…
I wonder if this is a tacit acceptance of the DIY hackintosh. Has anyone seen hacintoshes used by audio/video pros for production work? Everything I've read over the last year seems to imply that Apple is losing…
Ever notice how when a female politician wears an outfit a second time, it results in a great deal of criticism from tabloid media? I male politician could wear the same suit every day, varying the tie (or even keeping…
tl;dr: eBooks have the potential to be a superior product by virtue of being digital, but the current marketplace is shoveling crap that is inferior to the printed editions, at higher prices. Also, DRM.
The Raspberry Pi is 1/3 the cost, and at 3.5watts, the Raspberry Pi is far more efficient than the 150watt power supply on this thing.
>I think if you were to ask most 30-50 year olds if they could drop most of their current responsibilities (with impunity) and go to college full time, the vast majority would. No. Especially not in the "Information…