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Love how he spends a couple paragraphs arguing from authority, then says "scientists don't like arguing from authority"

Failed spectacularly for me.

Utterly fascinating. But the last paragraph in the article puts the lie to the title -- pigs and horses don't have this feature. Last I checked, both mammals.

Rubinius?

I used to be able to tell which of the long row of Model 33 TTY's was left on at the college computer center by whistling the 300 baud carrier and modulating it a little. The ones that were on would start typing gibberish.

It doesn't require deuterium.

It's claimed to be producing energy via so-called "low energy nuclear reactions" involving hydrogen. You have to supply hydrogen (which you can get by electrolyzing water once the systems is up and running) and re-form the catalyst when it wears out. It's not claimed to be a perpetual motion machine, so stop attacking a straw man.

I remain highly skeptical about this, but it's not a perpetual motion scam.

Someone actually made this thing! It was probably a lot of effort, and there it is! Why would anyone want to use it?

When will the pain end, asks the author of this cartoon. Right now, says I, clicking the "close tab" icon.

Ah, but you see, it doesn't matter if it's FUD, as long as it is in the service of unimpeachable ends. You wouldn't want to hurt a child, would you? I didn't think so.

Well put.

That can be used to justify funding for the Laser Broom.

That's what (very big) capacitors are for. :-)

Things which cannot continue, won't.

This guy is, in the words of Monty Python, "The type what causes unrest." Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, I cannot say.

I do think there is a problem with large companies not quickly addressing problems like this. I have a friend who has run into trouble with adwords, and although it did take quite a bit of work, he eventually got the problem resolved.

I don't think this can be characterized as "Google is evil."

Just did it. Bought an HD antenna, got an HD tivo. Cut DirectTV. Not looking back.

Think outside the "think outside the box" box. This is ycombinator, after all. ;-)

I agree, I like Ruby better both for the syntax, the cleaner oo integration, and so on -- but a year and a half away from each, I can pick up the Python again a lot quicker. And python is friendly to scripting, low-level and embedded applications, which Ruby (Matz) is not interested in.

Anything to say about MetaPython here, Dan?

What about this?

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25855/?ref=rss

A wrenching story of bad memes and their long term outcomes? Not sure what to make of it. Poor bastard seems to end up making a profoundly nihilistic statement -- life is pointless and the only thing to do is get off the bus.

I've read somewhere that one problem with Thorium is it can easily be converted to a fissionable isotope (of Uranium?) which can be used to build bombs. So there's that.

Same here.

Also, he's clearly in the "zero-sum game" camp -- I like the "let a thousand flowers bloom" notion myself. If there's anything to Go, it will eventually become widely used. If not, ... it may at least influence the development of another language. We've pretty much entered the Cambrian Explosion of language design anyway, and what's wrong with that?

I've noticed problems lately with Gmail in Safari on the iPod Touch, and the Reader app has always had problems on the Touch. For what it's worth, I'm in the US Northeast.

I think the performance of the touch screen is critical to the experience of using a tablet. This device has a resistive touch screen. I've used a number of different touch screens, and all of them were hateful, except for the Apple iPhone/iPod touch screen. That was the first screen that I didn't want to fling violently away after using it. I'd guess that I'd be flinging this one. On the other hand, if I read that a high-resolution capacitive touch screen was available, I'd be very inclined to give this a shot.

Read it, highly recommended. Loved it.

Um... what? More of a villain than Bertrand Russell himself? I liked the vignette where Cantor was thrilled that Russell had destroyed set theory, as it fit into his current mental illness nicely.

Reading it right now -- recommended.