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bvttf··on Steam-powered Blender
Hands up who else read the post before coming to the comments, saw this and cursed themselves.
bvttf··on Hillbilly Tracking of Low Earth Orbit Satellites
"Portscanning Low Earth Orbit" http://www.summercon.org/presentations.html#orbit, lots of overlap with this post, but we also learned how to pronounce appalachian.
bvttf··on A Google Reader Replacement written in Haskell and Ur
If it was open source it would, I'm reluctant to run tiny tiny rss because of my own anti-PHP bigotry.
bvttf··on Ambrosia Software employees report layoffs, but company says it's in business
Could be, but apparently a lot was http://rochestermade.com/
bvttf··on Punchfork shutdown inspires Open Recipes
Jason Scott may be your only hope: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/313386087802351616
bvttf··on The Kickstarter Game Successes: Where Are They Now?
Lost interest the third time they said there were only updates for backers.

Yes, they should be providing more updates for the people who might buy it. I think the backer-only updates were listed as features since that was presumably one of the big draws of the doublefine kickstarter success.

But RPS: do some journalism and ask someone who did back it? Or email the project? For a story titled "where are they now", having half the entries be "they protected updates so dunno, lol" is annoying.

bvttf··on Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor
good use of prezi, the presentation on the chip & pin break from last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv3dxjvqk7Y

bvttf··on The Lisp keyboards
kickstarter! there's probably enough nostalgia and curiosity to make it happen.
bvttf··on 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
He was on "I've got a secret" in 1965, Wikipedia says born in 1948. So pretty close to 100.
bvttf··on Shoes and software
Since 37s is so ruby, reading this title, I was briefly hopeful that _why had returned.
bvttf··on Programming as a super power
Briefly terrified by a future where people are as easily convinced they're good at programming as they are today with writing.
bvttf··on Nexus One
Clue: the software for the iPod touch wasn't found in the street either.
bvttf··on Unreal Development Kit Released
This has no C++ support, it's the same SDK you get buying UT3 plus the ability to make a standalone binary that doesn't require UT3 installed.
bvttf··on IPhone Flash prototype got 30 min battery life
Since iphone safari doesn't unload pages when you leave the app (Multitasking!), flash could've been spinning in the background all the time.
bvttf··on Pinching and The Droid
That this shows up in the EU version of android is another red flag that this is about software patents.
bvttf··on Pinching and The Droid
The iPhone's pinch zoom lets you control the focus and amount of zoom interactively.
bvttf··on Hacking the Wii To Pieces
Yeah, both. There's a lot of emulators, unsurprisingly, but also some neat homebrew apps.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_development

bvttf··on Alcohol Activates Cellular Changes That Make Tumor Cells Spread
I wouldn't want to say there's no correlation without controlling for, well, a lot.

This looked at breast and colon cancer, which could be drowned out by noise from other cancers if this doesn't apply to them, for one. Other sources of cancer like diet, smoking, and being constantly irradiated would vary on a national level.

Also, the post seems focused on cancer becoming metastatic, which wouldn't be the same as cancer incidence, and looking at cancer deaths isn't helpful either because of variations in treatment, etc.

bvttf··on Google Chrome released for Mac (Official Developer Build)
Looks like it's using Keychain, reading passwords I saved in Safari too.
bvttf··on Is it possible to write c...r in lisp, for any combination of letters a and d?
You're over-thinking this. My comment was a response to the idea that every lisp can that but there's no single standard.

My awkward phrasing was a reference to about 1:53 in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCWA7uevo_Q

bvttf··on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
I'd have guessed IA-128 was Itanium, as IA-64 was, but google seems to think this article is the only authority on IA-128.
bvttf··on Is it possible to write c...r in lisp, for any combination of letters a and d?
More appropriately, there's no standard way to do this with CL. One might ask the same about threads. What are threads? We just don't know.
bvttf··on Hacker news reader for iPhone
It doesn't even seem to have a way to log in, getting to comments is awkward, and threads are flattened to an iPhone list.
bvttf··on Snow Leopard contains hidden antivirus application
Is there any confirmation that Snow Leopard has fixed this?
bvttf··on Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions
If you actually use Google Voice all calls go through it, and get sent to the GV voicemail, instead of whatever voicemail your phone uses. This would make the Visual Voicemail and SMS that ship with the phone useless.
bvttf··on IE6 is not going away for a long time because of corporate nightmares like these
view source:

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bvttf··on Tim Sweeney: The end of the GPU roadmap [pdf]
I read "itanium-like" not in terms of architecture, but in market timing, delivery on performance promises, and scalability for future revisions.
bvttf··on The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines
Reading this made me wonder about the eventual fate of Thinking Machines. Wikipedia says most of it was bought by Sun, the rest by... Oracle!

Now we know why Oracle is really buying Sun.

bvttf··on How To Hijack 'Every iPhone In The World'
Supposedly, I don't think there's any official announcement beyond t-mobile's second next week. Would a headphone jack be too much to ask for?
bvttf··on How driving a car into Manhattan costs $160
And would also get rid of most of the traffic caused by people circling around looking for parking.
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