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From the article: The Russians have achieved a low-cost, reliable launch capability because, first of all, they used simple, damage-tolerant designs that were less than optimum by …

Think of this as empowering people who will not use vi or emacs, but prefer Eclipse or Visual Studio, to have a visually appealing arsenal of tools which can be chained in a pipeli…

I would prefer a world without software patents. If that is not possible, * At least the courts should charge exponentially high prices for each extra claim you want to make beyond…

Is there something like explore2fs for ext3 and ext4 so that you can access it while in windoze?

I hope some one writes a javascript library that takes a suitable formatted text and has an expandTo(length) function so that the same info can fit into various screen sizes withou…

Awesome thanks a lot :)!!!

Can anyone suggest a JS library that allows u to plot semilog graphs and log log graphs please... Do any of the above support it? At least it is not shown in the galleries...

I think something implying: "Online Code Repository" would be better. Portfolio may mean, you want to look at the outputs while you want to check out the "code" or attitude here...…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Launcher_versions These are GTO numbers... but the bots r tiny in Kgs I guess... The glxp teams share the rockets i guess... The robots must be …

I suddenly realized by accident that Chinese children do not have brothers and sisters. I mean just imagine a whole country... hundreds of millions of children... not one has a bro…

India got independence only in 1947. All growth till then made the British richer. Till the 1990s india had a strange cross breed b/w socialism and capitalism where large govt fact…

Bill Gates tried teledesic... it went nowhere though...

SpaceX has brought down the cost of space travel by an order of magnitude. If Ad Astra succeeds in their VASIMR effort, they will bring it down further. Many things you could only …

You bring up a very important aspect of quality control. i.e. How to prevent it from turning into a restroom wall. Of course it will go through an editorial process. Something magi…

sure... I would go onto say we should not have not moved out of Africa at all. Most people would agree that we humans somehow end up making places less beautiful by own standards b…

The comments on HN have made me wiser. I have decided to abandon this idea altogether. Sorry for wasting ur time. Let me explore some more constructive ideas...

Well not that it fits exactly, but that is the order of magnitude of the expense. At least many videos of the glxp are saying so... But hey only the winner gets to keep the cash. T…

I understand and appreciate your sentiments. America and Australia would have been a lot more "beautiful" without the European settlers ruining it. But in a strange way mankind nee…

Awesome this is just like http://scratch.mit.edu and google has a product called app inventor. http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ Hope it is now easily accessible as a web ap…

The HN website serves as a great minimally polluted digg like service targetted at the geek community. While many links are time sensitive, many are precious nuggets of non diminis…

it would be interesting 2 see how geeks round upto the 5s and how many to the tens ;-)