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Here's my answer on HOW to contribute to Open Source, if you're not a programmer: http://www.granneman.com/techinfo/linux/contributewithoutcod...

Ooh - if I click that up-arrow icon, do I get to upload a version of the kernel?

Another possible explanation is that interstellar travel is impossible. Perhaps there's too much debris between star systems, and it's not possible to create materials strong enoug…

I was listening to a talk on The Singularity, and it occurred to me that that might be a good explanation of the Fermi Paradox. (Which is similar to the author's idea, but a bit di…

I used to be a lot like that, and I worked on changing it. So that's my number 1 piece of advice -- work on changing what you want to change. Work on the big things as well as the …

I think the point is that negative mass might be an explanation for dark matter and/or dark energy. Scientists don't really have any explanation for what either of those are -- the…

+1 for FlySpray. It's PHP-based, and pretty easy to install and set up. It does take a few minutes to set it up to add your desired Task Types (TODO, Bug, Feature Request, etc.) an…

This is the advice I've seen from just about every financial adviser, for anyone not near retirement age. Another nice thing about a Roth IRA is that you can withdraw all the princ…

Why don't critics of global warming ever present any evidence? That's how scientists do criticism. Any criticism of scientific findings without evidence is useless. Of course, the …

Does anyone ever live on the water in the Bay Area? I saw some houseboats in Oakland when I was there last, and thought that it might be cool to live on a boat actually on the bay.…

Setting the threshold at 2 seems a bit high to me. It basically requires that (on average) at least 1 person upvotes every comment you make. That's unlikely to happen in a nested t…

Not quite Comp Sci, but I like to listen to NPR's Science Friday podcasts. I have to rewind a bit once in a while if I have to pay attention to traffic, but it's nice to be able to…

Ditto. Pretty simple to install and configure. Looks decent, and works for me. Has some minor issues, and could use more integration with other tools. But only took a few minutes t…

Sounds like a good idea. I know that there are several non-profit organizations out there that help people apply for free medications. Basically, each pharmaceutical company offers…

The health insurance problem is most certainly a moral/ethical problem. The problem is that insurance companies are rewarded for denying care to insured, when working (as most are)…

I've been using Komodo Edit a lot lately. The nice thing is that I get the same editor in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. And the snippets are nice, similar to TextMate.

My pseudo-code looks a lot like a mix of Python and Ruby. One thing I like about Python is the forced indentation, which allows skipping any closing braces or "end"s. But Ruby tend…

> OneApp’s very minimal on-phone footprint of just 150 KB makes installing it quick and easy. OneApp will launch only the parts of a mobile app that you want to use; that cuts down…

So long, and thanks for all the fish....

Perhaps you missed the part about CodePad compiling/interpreting the input. It's not just another pastie site.

I'd suggest either Ruby or Python. Both have a pretty simple syntax, and are very self-consistent. In other words, there aren't too many rules to remember, and there aren't a lot o…

Sounds like you're choosing the "cream of the crop". From what others wrote, I like "select", "cherry-picking", and "blessed". I don't like "filter", "screen", or "cull", because t…

No, not usually.

I'm not seeing how this is a big improvement over an HTTP redirect (via a Location header) to the HTTPS site -- beyond a single connection for each session, to redirect to the HTTP…

Note that the front page (which HN links to) does NOT have this feature -- only the article pages.