AndrewNCarr

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by AndrewNCarr 9y ago
If you were in school, it is very possible you did watch it live: "With Christa McAuliffe set to be the first teacher in space, NASA had arranged a satellite broadcast of the full mission into television sets in many schools, but the g
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by AndrewNCarr 9y ago
Here is a project that maintains a list of homoglyphs and has some Java and Javascript code for detecting them. https://github.com/codebox/homoglyph The list itself in sorted text format, each line a list of similar gl
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by AndrewNCarr 9y ago
Some brief searching ("cooking rice with seawater") indicates that at a minimum you can use seawater diluted with fresh water for cooking if your survival depends on it. Seawater is around 3.5% salt. For perspective, that is somet
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by AndrewNCarr 9y ago
The next worst is when there are only a handful of search results and the top one is a forum post with replies saying the answer is easily available, and the OP should have used Google first. The remaining results being archives of that fir
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by AndrewNCarr 9y ago
Varasano also rejects the "special water" claim. I think the historically poor quality of pizza in rural areas is due to the "trade secret" recipe factors (which Varasano identifies) not being widely shared. I've be
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by AndrewNCarr 9y ago
className is a small inconvenience when porting over an existing app to react (e.g. pasting in existing html), as is the requirement for style parameters to be objects. className is a quick find replace, but style is a more lengthy transpos
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by AndrewNCarr 10y ago
You basically just described Cat Programming 101.
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by AndrewNCarr 10y ago
Consider Phlebas is one of the few books I have read more than once. The Culture series is unparalleled. Surface Detail is probably my pick for #1, as Consider Phlebas isn't really set within the Culture proper, so stands in its own
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by AndrewNCarr 10y ago
Apple could shrink the touchbar enough to have space for the esc key. They could have also included a single classic USB type A receptacle and kept the magsafe power connector... so who knows.
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by AndrewNCarr 10y ago
Agreed, "mayonnaise man" sounds like an internet legend in the making. To claim it is not beautiful without a link, but give such a fascinating description...
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by AndrewNCarr 10y ago
I would like to find a laptop with a touchpad as good as a 2010 MacBook Pro. I'm not aware of any, and this article seems to confirm it: http://www.businessinsider.com/macbook-touchpad-better-than-...
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by AndrewNCarr 10y ago
If you like AvE, check out This Old Tony. He is more machining focused, but he did do a clever multimeter 4/1 video.
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by AndrewNCarr 11y ago
He is referring to traditional chaining of programs through STDOUT and STDIN. For example, a "program" that counts number of occurrences of foo in a file: cat file.txt | grep "foo" | wc -w
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by AndrewNCarr 12y ago
The missing link between the new Pepsi logo and TimeCube! Saddest thing is I can see a board room eating this up. Remember when Marissa Mayer redesigned the Yahoo logo with a small team over a weekend? "no straight lines in nature&quo
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
That has always been my response to John Searle's Chinese Room [1] thought experiment. The argument boils down to the human consciousness either being magic or not. Magic being something beyond physics. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
http://www.idsoftware.com/business/history "Taking its name from Freud's primal, instinct-driven face of the human psyche, id Software is, by general acknowledgement, the coolest game shop in the world."
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
It is "id" software, no caps, no periods. It is named for this concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego I used to make similar mistakes years ago, for a long time thinking it was "Eye Dee Software", so I'm posting this
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk (A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work) Not that I disagree, it is just fun to think about possible unintended consequences of dependency on AI for every day tasks. I am s
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
My observation of HN is that any link title mentioning cargo cult or skeuomorphism is upvoted into orbit. It is worth reading the wikipedia article on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult I've always thought the idea was l
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
When the blog post author (Larry Osterman) states that a quarter of 100,000 is 13,000, and that 10% of 13,000 is 130... I start to question if anything the author writes is in any way reflective of what actually occurred.
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
I was involved in the creation of the Arduino CEC library, so I instantly recognized the schematic included in the PDF on page 17. My hardware implementation of interface is here: http://www.andrewncarr.com/hdmi/ (I included additional w
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
I can easily imagine that MS store employees have been instructed to do this as a result of this issue. If that is the case, good responsiveness from MS. Somewhat reminds me of the following story. Not exactly, but it is an interesting re
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
>The difficulty is that anything more complex is TOO complex as an example. This sums it up. "Todo" examples are intended as a web/js-framework equivalent to the traditional "Hello World" example used to introduce a programming languag
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
Countdown to 5 more HN posts with open source reimplementations of Oracle's new UI style. With proper CSS of course, none of those center tags. By tomorrow every blog story linked will be using this ultra minimalist design.
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
There is nothing magical about attributes in C#, they are a well defined way to declaratively add meta data to your methods, and I've always found them quite useful and effective. Here are a few links that may be insightful on how they work
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
I would argue that if your team delivered good stuff, mostly on schedule, and your team was happy, then you were good at being a manager. The company failing despite your team deliver quality product hints that there was probably a flaw in
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
It doesn't, according to Moxie Marlinspike and others. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/state_of_ssl_analysi... If you haven't seen any of Marlinspikes presentations, you are missing out on some fascinating stuff. Moxie @ Defcon 19
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
I've noticed a lot of YouTube videos have a CC button which enables subtitles. This appears to be some sort of beta feature, and the captions aren't always perfect, but I've found it useful for videos where the sound isn't clear. Why isn'
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
Ageism, racism, and sexism all in one, impressive. And what stereotypes do you attribute to that demographic which are unique and oppressive to others? Seems to me the only thing in question here is creativity and ambition.
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by AndrewNCarr 14y ago
I wonder if this is a tacit acceptance of the DIY hackintosh. Has anyone seen hacintoshes used by audio/video pros for production work? Everything I've read over the last year seems to imply that Apple is losing interest in the pro A/V mar

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