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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 …

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 …

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 i…

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 Go…

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 identifie…

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 i…

You basically just described Cat Programming 101.

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…

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... s…

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...

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-touc…

If you like AvE, check out This Old Tony. He is more machining focused, but he did do a clever multimeter 4/1 video.

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"…

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…

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 som…

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 g…

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 tim…

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 con…

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.wikipe…

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 …

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: …

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…

>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…

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 …