javanix

I'll update this thread later when I have a chance to make some changes.

This contract amount seems to suggest that SpaceX launches will come in significantly lower than the Shuttle - a very good sign for continued space research.

I thought that was the main draw of Cygwin.

Granted, it might be the most difficult configuration I've ever tried to figure out on *nix and I'm not trying to shoot you down, but for anyone reading your comment it's not actually "impossible".

I don't read books for the experience of turning pages - I read them for the experience of reading and interpreting and taking in a story.

What exactly is more romantic or useful about reading the latest Stephen King novel on a tablet versus a bound sheaf of paper?

The death of the printed book boils down reading to the bare essence of appreciating the written word.

Montessori kids have been rewarded over the years for giving out-of-the-box answers and that's probably what their mind jumps to first. Their ignorance isn't what gives them the creative answers - the years of being taught to look for something different is.

If you want to start getting better answers out of your employees/coworkers/own mind figure out how to reward them for random ideas instead of pounding them down.

https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway

Pretty cool algorithm!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2532218/pick-random-prope...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YvdCxzu...

But it’s a model kit. We will put it together once and we will play with it a lot and that will be that. It won’t get remixed, won’t get hacked. Eventually it’ll come apart and be put away and not rebuilt because 1000 pieces is a pain in the ass.

This doesn't make any sense to me. Why on earth wouldn't you mix those pieces in with the rest of the pieces you already have from sets you've already disassembled? Sure, the marketing is a little much these days but unless I am sadly mistaken all the pieces still fit together like they did 30 years ago.

The only bootleg audio that usually sounds decent are soundboard recordings, and when you find audience tapes spliced in with them the difference is immediately noticable.

Whether it is sustainable will depend on the performance/usability of the Kindle. The problem with current iPad competitors is that at best, they come in at the same price point as the iPad and fall far short in terms of usability.

Client-side validation should always be assumed to be disabled completely - view it as merely a convenience for your users. Help them switch dates into a correct format, make sure their userids aren't taken before they finish filling out their forms, that sort of thing.

The two events have absolutely nothing in common with one another other than sharing an arbitrary day and month of the year.

Without some politician complaining loudly and simply about the wrongness of an issue, nothing is going to change. Unfortunately the major technical issues of our time (this and net neutrality, for instance) do not have loud, simple explanations.

Everything seems to talk about the principles of the project - I can't even find a decent picture of the settlement's current state.

I drew a standard bell-curve peaking in 2007 and then trailing off to zero into 2011 and everything was either Myspace searches or Washington Mutual credit searches.

Pretty nifty.

How long will it be before canvas gets hardware-accelerated? Is there a technical hurdle that needs to be overcome in getting (for example) V8 to talk directly to GPUs?

I am running on a resource-constrained computer right now - my only complaint is the JavaScript seems a bit slow - scrolling on the main page is choppy. Might be worth profiling on lower-end machines a bit to smooth some of that out.

I thought I was doing well when I finally learned to remember the "no cron files that don't include an empty newline" rule.