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Very similar UI to ia Writer [1], which I really enjoy — as someone who easily gets caught up in the minutiae of choosing fonts/sizes/linespacing etc. and thus never starts, you know, actually writing, it’s actually sometimes great to have a program with preset attributes that you can’t tweak. Adding git-like versioning is an awesome addition, I’m looking forward to playing (and maybe writing!) with this.

[1] http://www.iawriter.com/mac/

I’ve been using it for a few months and it’s surprisingly accurate. It’s fascinating to see a video demonstration of what Cardio does with all its math and image processing, since the only feedback in the app is the silly phrases above the stethoscope. I’d love a switch to show the processed video instead of the heart rate!

Really interesting about this to me was the audio sample rate of the original Mac line, and especially the unusual refresh rate — I would have expected a straight 60hz refresh due to US wall current, and 22050Hz audio. Missing from this reconstructed sound is the satisfying click of the power switch and the brief pre-sound of the circuits springing to life just before the beep (and of course, the quality of the tiny, tinny, speaker itself). Happy memories!

This article on Hacker News brought to you by “hacking”, the act of deconstructing, fiddling, creating, and playing around with something for your edification and enjoyment. ;-)

I’ve used this app since it was called SteadiCam (before that name was pulled for copyright reasons, of course), and there’s really nothing else like it around—long ago I thought of applying 6-axis gyroscope readings in reverse to video, but this dev has done that and more better than I ever could. It’s a fantastic application of amazing technology and crazy math. Major kudos!

This looks terrific, both in functionality and in UI! Congratulations on this release, and I hope you still get enough financial support through plugins/Pixel Conduit to make it worth your while. I’m considering buying that just to mess around with my Kinect :-)

Is this apropos of some discussion I missed, or just a cool “Today I Learned” link?

I actually read this particular article just a week ago (Baader-Meinhof, etc.) when following links for another cataclysmic event: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_impact_crater

It still amazes me just what an incredible resource Wikipedia is.

English word construction seems like anarchy, but there really are rules—they’re just rules for all the different languages that english draws from, respective to each word. I learned to recognize the origin of words (from Greek, Latin, German, French, etc.) pretty early on, and it drastically cleared up the seeming chaos of how a word was spelled. Is your son getting any context behind the words? Otherwise I could see these exercises being as frustrating as trying to learn a modern symphony by ear with no knowledge of music.

I would say “self-congratulatory” rather than “hipstery” — I’m reading this right now too, and although I find it fascinating (like I find reading about any cryptography fascinating), it often feels impenetrable without a cause to be, other than “aren’t these characters all such geniuses, I bet you can barely keep up.” Also, I get http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Shaftos_Gone_to_Sea stuck in my head for hours afterwords each time.

My wife and I got our wedding rings here (we also have the luxury of living in the Bay Area, so we got to meet with them in person). They also have a truly astonishing array of vintage rings with stunning stones and settings. If your fiancé(e) is into that style, they have the added benefit of being both glamourous and unusually inexpensive for the quality (and it’s definitely not a “fake”)!

Absolutely, this seems like one of the most amazing in a long string of incredible things. There’s only enough energy to power two 60w light bulbs, and yet it can transmit all the way to earth while also powering the computer running the thing.

It certainly looks similar—one thing you might have noticed is that the entire rest of the solar system (including some mid-sized asteroids) is in there and decently textured. Really terrific!

I’ve been using this since about version 0.93 and the developer has done a great job with each new update. I’m thrilled to see it on the App Store and with good publicity. I started using because I wanted an authentic terminal experience for hacking around—the slight fuzziness of edges, the phosphor glow when the contrast is turned up too high, the ability to simulate a 1200bps connection—I find it much more captivating than perfect crisp black on white 9-point monaco.

That said, it still has bugs—the game of Life in emacs, for example, totally screws up the screen buffer, and it lacks several functions; shift-home/end to go to the start/end of the command line, and key repeat, to name a couple (and it drives me crazy every time I try to use them in vain). Overall though it’s a great throwback, and conversation starter (really!) and it’s $10 I’ve had no regrets in spending.

This is the same method Apple officially recommended in their help for choosing a secure password—the example they gave was “Tnf,tfws95” (“That’s not flying, that’s falling with style”) followed by the year of Toy Story’s release (where the quote is from). I agree that it’s an excellent combo of passphrase and obfuscation. Unfortunately, their documentation now[1] gives the same kind of example that XKCD points out will be exceedingly difficult to remember correctly.

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1506