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They will just do it too late for it to make a difference.

Another source: http://centralcomputing.blogspot.com/2010/01/tech-mania-down...

(a bit ad-infested, though. I am not affiliated in any way.)

[snip]...consequence of this is that in many implementations, operating on a variable with automatic or static lifetime through a reference, although syntactically similar to accessing it directly, can involve hidden dereference operations that are costly.[/snip]

I adore Stephen Fry as much as the next guy, I try to get my weekly dose whenever possible. But on page two of this post I had this distinct feeling that this was bought. Hell, I was scanning the page looking for some kind indication that it was an advertisement.

I can understand why on page four it's stated that he was not paid to go there.

I did get a good chuckle over the Google Voice transcript, though :)

The idea is clever and it's a little surprising how no one did this before, especially when considering how much about reading maps consists of folding the damn thing!

I've been cursed at more than once because I didn't fold a map the right way. And like andrewljohnson said in this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1074300), the complication of folding could hardly have been the limiting factor of coming up with this. :)

Flash managed to evolve with the bandwidth (and came across as sexier than Java Applets) and by doing so more and more users had it installed and eventually it got to the point where you "just could not" go to a website without being prompted to install the plugin (yes, plugin, not part of the browser core).

At this point you could not stop it (from a vendor's perspective), so run with it. With the lessons of the past in mind and HTML5 still not being widely deployed, yeah, I'd say stand your ground. And from that angle I'd say it's more similar to ActiveX than Flash.

It's semantics. But I think it was a non-bad decision to include it in the default installation procedure.

(edit: Actually, reading back, one might say that I don't agree with you! :)

Sheesh. One would hope he has better reasons than that for using console. It's not that hard to configure X to not switch window on mouse-over.

No offense RMS. :)

I didn't know about the yeeloong, though. Interesting device.

I am curious about the security considerations they have taken with the employees that work with the ATM on location. I mean there is a connection to some banking institution there and I am not so sure if I would want non-Wells Fargo people working too closely with the machine.

On the other hand, my knowledge about ATM's is quite limited. They hand me money.

(and my girlfriend was rolling her eyes as I was throwing useless tidbits about ATM's at her this early in the morning)

The biggest problem with these things is not parsing source code and output something else; you get the real pain when you're going to debug. :)

Combining Robert Morris' Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard's writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux. It is a physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay.

Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself.

If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself.

Link: http://www.caleblarsen.com/projects/a-tool-to-deceive-and-sl...

What I found curious about it is that it's listed under 2008. Has it been selling itself before or did it just take two years for it to convince the artist to plug it in?

...and the Box has not published its source code under the link on that page either :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

By following that link I also had the pleasure of ending up on your demoscene group . I had to watch a few, and timestamps may be off here (could only watch the video) but at 2:02 in "Extatique" I had this shiver down my spine as it sent me back to the 90's Amiga scene with resizing-bob-starfield (only lasted for about 2 seconds before I was yanked back to reality, though). :D

Nice productions!

PS. Nice to see that you guys seem to provide source for everything!

Edit: link for those who might be curious: http://www.vimeo.com/8607459

My immediate thought though: I wonder how much battery-time you would gain by making the device monochrome (black/green) when you just intend to use it to, say, call or perhaps even read something.

Maybe a mode like this already exists in Android? I don't have a Nexus one, so... :) Heck, if it doesn't exist, then I guess this might be an app for the Android app-store. Send me a cookie if you write one!

It does not look malicious, just a silly mistake. Boy, how I love thee, NoScript!

(the url: http://192.168.0.164:8581/feeds/PopularSciencehtml/PopularSc...)

It's just a dirty shame that making any kind of long-term statistics will be hard due to the screen-scraping nature of the application. Anyone's who has ever tried scraping IMDB knows what I am talking about. :)

I like it.

Or the FreeBSD source: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/erand...

Of course.

You will spend eight hours every day at that place, you want to gather as much information as you can. Naturally you have to filter/sort/disregard, but that is the next step.

(sorry for the off-topic to the rest)

Call me cynical. :/

Would appreciate it! (mail is in profile here at HN)