rickr

This was always my biggest hold up in fully adopting a kindle. I really enjoy having books to lend out or flip through - not a very strong suit for an ebook reader. Even with all the e-reader benefits I could never really make the switch because of this.

I wonder how many people felt the same way?

I think they may have gotten their data from bing in the past but these days it looks like that isn't the case.

https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/results/sources

I have been messing around with this idea for a while with a few friends. I'd love to talk more if you're interested. You can find my contact details in my profile.

A little late and I don't work there but I know I've seen at least Sun gear/monitors at JPL and Houston.

I'm certainly no expert, and it's not OO but I've always enjoyed reading the code of some of the coreutils.

This looks nice but it does seem like it's an extra step for users to go through unless they are using this service.

Have you seen janrain? http://www.janrain.com/

Reddit is a company no? This seems like a pretty good investment to me, regardless of their stance on the legislation.

They know they're not going to lose users due to a 12 hour outage and they could pretty much bet on a bit of (free) press. It would be interesting to see how much traffic this generates.

For what it's worth vimium (and the other chrome alternatives) aren't quite what vimperator is.

It's really the only thing keeping me from using chrome, since I hear the developer tools are as good as firebug.

You don't have an email in your profile but if you'd like to chat shoot one over this way.

Didn't see an area for feedback on the site so if anyone's looking the signup form broke when I used the birth year of 1892. Didn't hightlight the form field or provide a message.

My profile can be located at:

http://gplus.to/rickr

As someone who taught himself programming at a young age, perhaps my experiences may be helpful.

My first two "languages" were HTML and qbasic, both of which were learned loosely from books. HTML was "HTML for dummies", and basic from whatever was available at the library at the time. While HTML is not a programming language it was a way for me to type in "cryptic" text and see meaningful output, which as a youngin' was enough to give me the bug.

I say loosely learned from books because with each language I had a project in mind while learning it. I was gifted with a domain and webhost which I was determined to put to use, animated gifs, frames and all. It also provided me with something to brag about to friends, which again was enticing at a young age.

As for basic, I still distinctly remember procrastinating my real homework and studies to write simple programs that I figured would benefit me in the long run. Things like random math problems, vocabulary tests, practice history tests etc.

While this may not be directly related to web dev, it may be useful for those younger folks itching to get into programming. Try to point them in a direction of a problem in their lives that can be automated, simplified or enhanced through the learning of a language. I understand that things are a bit different today but if someone truly wants to learn I think that may be a good road to travel down.

FYI:

!gm is a bit shorter and also goes to Google maps.

Off the top of my head didn't bash4 include multiple globs? ie * * (no space...formatting)

The delay from answering to audio playing is a bit long. It will probably end in a few hangups if sent to an unsuspecting party.

Looks a bit cleaner than other data centers to me.

Since it's such a large number and difficult to comprehend Voyager 1 is about 116 AU away. 1 AU is the distance from earth to the sun (150,000,000 km). Earths circumference is 40,000 km. Space is big.

Also, a neat summary of the computers on Voyager can be found here: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/faq.html

I'm still trying to track down the article on the comm used.

Why not allow all of them? Janrain Engage may be worth looking into.

http://www.janrain.com/

OSDev ( http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page ) has a bunch of great stuff. Start at the top and work your way down.

Also, Operating Systems Design and Implementation, aka the Minix book, is an amazing resource.( http://www.amazon.com/Operating-Systems-Design-Implementatio... )

Justin Peterson (the author) was an FBI informant who helped put Kevin Mitnick and Kevin Poulson in jail. I believe he escaped a large portion of his jail time by selling out friends.

The launch went great and the Dragon capsule is in orbit. It will be doing 2 to 3 orbits and with the de-orbit burn in about 2 hours from now. Very cool!

A link to the press kit:

http://www.spacex.com/downloads/cots1-20101206.pdf

Elon is saying cargo to the ISS in a year.

The term 'hacking' is giving them way too much credit.

If you're not looking to do something super complicated maybe you can look into Sinatra (ruby). I'm not sure if python has something similar if that's your language of choice.

http://www.sinatrarb.com/

Are your numbers correct? If so that's a 98% chance you come out fine.

Do astronauts have a mental illness?

Do you have a source for that? I have super curly hair and in a futile attempt to manage it I researched hair care for a morning a few weeks ago.

If you didn't know curly hair tends to become dry towards the ends. This is due to the natural oils not being able to reach the ends because of the curls. I found a few sites advocating shampooing about once every two weeks to let the oils do their thing (along with moisturizing conditioner every day).

That being said my hair is still a mess so I'd love to see if I am "doing it wrong".