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Largely for the same reason people don't "just win" the lottery by buying every possible ticket (any more).

in-fighting, power struggles & empire building. Then fell into bankruptcy.

I feel like the CX16 lost its way about a week after the project started and it suddenly became an expensive FPGA-based blob. But at the same time, I'm not sure what other option t…

It's incredible how influential Ben Eater's breadboard computer series has been in hobby electronics. I've been similarly inspired to try to design my own "retro" CPU. I desperatel…

> These effects consist of oxidative stress, DNA damage, organ dysfunction, metabolic disorder, immune response, neurotoxicity, as well as reproductive and developmental toxicity. …

You're complaining about a Writer writing?

This looks interesting, thanks. At the moment I don't want to use it as a single display, rather display 9 different things (and various permutations thereof). I plan to hack somet…

Hi, I'm working on a project to convert the use of a 9-screen video wall into an information point. We have a spare one at the school I teach in and I've commandeered it for my own…

"Hi, I'm Insert Name, pleased to meet you. Can I borrow your phone". "No" ... "Erm, what do you think you're doing, get your hand out of my pocket!" No-one touches my phone.

Ironically, we're all reading this on the web, where browsers merrily remove superfluous white space. If every browser can agree on that, given how much they all disagree on, I'll …

Takeaway for us in the real world: locate an exit before you start moving.

I think that's generally how jokes work.

I did this once. I installed Ubuntu on a new laptop, resizing the disk partition as I went. When I switched back to Windows, I realised I had left it hibernated and the partition r…

I think that this comes down not so much to the arrogance of "Our idea is so good, we must stop people copying it!", but more the ignorance of "I read a lot about NDAs, they seem l…

I'm a Computing teacher in a UK secondary school. I do web development stuff in my spare time.

Good grief, tests for HTML! Some people will do anything to get out of doing real work!

it's a fair point, however, the way I see it, they had 2 choices: Release at iOS 6, release at iOS 7. We don't know when they actually started working on the new maps app. Choosing…

As many commenters have said, it wasn't necessarily Apple's choice to make the change, and they were bound to their own release schedule.

It's the headline of the actual article. I suggest you write a strongly worded letter to the editor explaining the HN submission guidelines. Probably best send it in triplicate, ju…

Hmm, not as long as I thought then! Skulduggery Afoot!

There's a fairly long grace period after initial expiration when a domain is expired but can't be re-registered. It allows for the original owner to get it back (for a larger fee) …

I got excited and clicked through looking for the latest news on Google Glass.

My opinion would be that if you're getting a lot of these kinds of issues, the signup page could well be the culprit. A much better solution is to have 2 boxes "Email address", "pa…

Years ago I went on a course that covered all kinds of things related to dealing with people and this issue was one of them. The awkwardness is easily removed simply by greeting so…