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I find the irony of the end result -- Impetus died because the players "suffocated" her, not because they neglected her -- fascinating.

Agreed, and it's worth pointing out that this is what Arduino has to say on the matter:

"Note that while we don't attempt to restrict uses of the "duino" suffix, its use causes the Italians on the team to cringe (apparently it sounds terrible); you might want to avoid it. (It's also trademarked by a Hungarian company.)"

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/FAQ

I believe songzme is saying that the mindset behind the project is of the type that results in world-changing things. Not the project itself.

That's a non-sequitur to the debate about whether car companies should be forced to sell through third-party dealerships. Tesla already has dozens of showrooms across the country, and yes, they are Apple-Store-esque.

Another interesting side-point -- MATLAB supports imaginary numbers... unless of course you redefine i to be something else. Then it doesn't.

Nitpicking: The name of the game is just "Sim City". They dropped the numbering scheme and went for a total reboot.

That's absolutely false -- there are some obvious flaws with the game, but the complexity of simulation and macro-level focus is not one of them. I beta-tested, aka I actually got to play the game since all the servers are down.

Only if students are also allowed to submit essays generated by a computer.

If you would like some _actually_ horrible open source code to make fun of, feel free to peruse my early repos which are mostly from my freshman year of college (github/jpwright), including this god-awful function I apparently once wrote: https://github.com/jpwright/debcite/blob/master/search.php#L...

That would drive mathematicians insane, and this is coming from an electrical engineer's standpoint (where we use j instead)

What's the name of the disorder, if you don't mind me asking?

In general, these questions would benefit from more nuance, as "yes/no" don't accurately portray each candidate's position on a bunch of different issues. Some examples:

- Romney believes the right to abortion ought to be preserved in cases of rape or when there's a threat to the mother's life. - Obama hasn't endorsed raising the Social Security retirement age and campaigned against in 2008, but seemed willing to consider the idea as part of a compromise solvency package during the Bowles-Simpson negotiations. - Obama flat out supports lowering the corporate tax rate.

Also, when someone lands in the middle zone, it doesn't really make sense to say they should vote for a 3rd party as virtually all 3rd party candidates are either to the left of Obama or the right of Romney.

Same here, 1366x768 resolution seems to be too small.

I can confirm that there is a serious lack of time spent working on hands-on projects in EE curriculum (at Cornell, in my case).

That's kind of a silly comment. Obviously entering a building is not a civil liberty; private buildings have the right to enforce security policies. That doesn't mean Yelp shouldn't be held accountable when their security policies are really, really dumb.

Only 3594 errors! http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flcamtuf.cored...