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Also the hat and mustache of the kart driver.

There's a pretty good talk on S3 under the hood from last year's re:Invent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXehLy7IiPM

Wouldn't have taken too much effort to confirm or deny the story. The poster's SO profile is here: http://serverfault.com/users/251721/bleemboy That lists twitter and github accoun…

Seems to be common experience from a number of different octopus keepers: https://www.tonmo.com/threads/midnight-tank-escapes-fact-or-...

Sadly, although this would seem to be a bonus for the environment, I don't think it is. A lot of people have been tempted into buying diesels based on the claimed fuel consumption …

There is just no upside to this kind of response. Surely for any tech company that has reached a certain size, the only workable approach is to recruit an appropriately sized secur…

There are command line tools available to help the transition from 'hack' one liner to a more maintainable / supportable solution. For instance drake ( https://github.com/Factual/d…

According to Wikipedia her kid is less than 1 year old. It's tricky to involve them in your interests at that age :) I can just about get my 5 year old interested, but my 2 year ol…

Even better - make your own content and distribute it freely without any DRM. Surely that would be a more constructive approach - and more fun!

It's hard to appreciate unless you get to hold one in your hand and play with it. The phones are exceptionally well made - not just robust but well crafted. The sound reproduction …

This is an excellent method for lighting milk powder sprinkled through a sieve from, e.g. the top of a spiral staircase. Makes an impressive fireball.

This is a great feature but is older than GMail. Lotus Notes mail for instance allowed the same mail to appear in different views, including an "all documents" view that had, as yo…

I did a fair amount of real world Lua a few years ago. This issue did start to bother me after my codebase grew. It is fairly easy to work around, mainly due to the very powerful m…

I'm hooked (t>>2|t>>6)*(t>>5|t>>7)

I will always try and see the 2D version of any film, but here in the UK at the moment the 2D versions don't show at as many screens or times as the 3D one.

I think if I was unaware of the technology behind this then even if you had come up to me and patiently explained it I would probably not have changed my behaviour. Until it is exp…

The money is not the only factor that can make it a wash. The practicalities of where suitable day care is located and the hours they operate mean that for many people returning to…

Purely anecdotal but when on site at Nokia and Sony Ericsson >5 years ago it seemed that nearly everyone used the wired headset so I started too. More recently I don't see that as …

HN front page shows this item as having one comment. When I click on the comments link, I don't see any comments, but the logged in user changes from myself to somebear! I can clic…

tl;dr Canonical have a H.264 license agreement, but that doesn't mean Ubuntu users are covered by it. You're only covered if you buy some hardware that comes with Ubuntu AND the ha…

When I clicked on the image search link you gave above, amongst the images of pop stars I got this gem: http://pic.yupoo.com/ifrency/12778789e82f/ts51s6si.jpg