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Almost this exact situation happened to author Ray Bradbury in Los Angeles, where he lived without a car. He wrote several short stories memorializing the incident, including a sce…

In this case, the digitized font is taken not from the metal types themselves, but from specimens printed on paper. The paper was less uniform and smooth than modern paper, and the…

man comes from Unix, info comes from Emacs and maybe the OSes it was developed on. The GNU project also comes from that ecosystem, so even their drop-in replacements for the origin…

iOS and Android are neck and neck in the US. There was a report about iOS passing Android just days ago, so they have similar market share. I can readily believe that at certain wo…

+/- doesn't fail in a language where + is addition modulo n.

Read crntaylor's explanation of this via group theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5278915 So this is awesome insofar as you find things like group theory awesome (I did).…

Even the nautilus shell, which this article says follows the golden ratio, doesn't. Proof: m_for_monkey's link: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

"is expected to unveil its new, more colorful logo" Picture of logo already available in the article.

Limited indeed. Comic Sans was one of the ~11 web-safe typefaces that you could count on pretty much everyone to have. Now that there's a bunch of good-looking embeddable typefaces…

That's not an 'except', grandparent never implied otherwise.

The evaluations are on "how well algorithms submitted by professional data scientists and amateur statistics wizards could predict the scores assigned by human graders." As long as…

I see that philosophy and math aren't the only fields where someone's work is more praiseworthy for being less practical!

Surely that's not the best we can hope for—or work for. It is not out of the realm of possibility that distributed social networks, like email or Diaspora, can gain popularity. But…

Zawinski's law? http://catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

It's just Zawinski's law in a cycle. “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

Sounds like Stockholm syndrome.

Here's some info about CoreBreach's Linux port being enabled by these changes: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxN...

If GPS failed before 100,000 ft (and it looks like any commercial GPS would), what about the altitude charts on the project's homepage?[0] How were they generated? Can that data-ga…

Alt-F2 works for me. What's Gnome (now not so) classic? Gnome 3?

I keep hearing that computers are diverging from the kind of architecture C maps to, though. What of that?

Sure, Python is even more popular today, but it showed up frequently in /. "what language should I learn programming with" threads in at least as far back as 2005. I seem to rememb…

Bills Gates never actually said 640k should be enough for anyone. Also, some of the quotes ("I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers") make more sense in context.

I don't know about that. Neither old books I've seen nor TeX do that.

A critical thinker would try to find a sentence that sounds best in the active voice, then try to find one that works best in the passive voice. Succeeding both times, he would the…

You have a [1] but forgot to include the footnote.