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Wow, I am now extremely curious about what the inside of that cave looked like! But I suppose taking pictures of it wouldn't have really served enough practical purpose to deal wit…

Would being angry about it make anything better? Could it restore the missing parts, or go back in time and un-stunt a person? Being at peace with something is not the same thing a…

Our bodies already make little robots to fight bacteria

From what I'm reading it's the entirety of Ubuntu, including apt. Use bash once to apt-get install zsh and you're done.

It's not completely free, and not completely open source, but we've been very happy with Octopus Deploy https://octopus.com/ That and Topshelf https://github.com/Topshelf/Topshelf …

After Disney bought LucasFilm they laid off everyone at LucasArts except those responsible for handling licensing [1]. ILM's work here seems focused on more cinematic stuff - the w…

It seems that recycling is a flat rate even if you get two cans. Jumping from the smallest to largest compost can is ~$5. Trash is the really expensive one: http://www.seattle.gov/…

Oddly, the LG-made Nexus 4 from 2012 does have Qi support (though it's very finicky)

I liked their example of a restaurant putting them in the bar top. Right now people who want to charge their phones have to decide if you want to plug in a data cable with somethin…

Well, it was weak on purpose. But for the US government's purpose, not the engineer's.

> there are far better ways of avoiding it than these anti-patterns. Could you describe or at least point to some of them?

As someone familiar (and generally quite happy with) reactive programming, what does Erlang/Elixir do that makes it a more general, better solution? And to what types of problems, …

Why would linking order affect runtime performance? Something to do with the interaction between offsets and cache, maybe? Would it be possible to determine ahead of time what orde…

No, it doesn't seem so. I have Silverlight installed but set to click-to-run, and the site will provide suggestions for the sample without running the Silverlight control.

You could try loading the assemblies up in dotPeek and poking around. You miss out on the XAML (though you'll see the code the XAML was transformed into), the compiler generated st…

If you prefer Ruby that's cool, but I feel like I should mention that Xamarin is also statically compiled on Apple platforms: http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/ios/advanced_topic…

I prefer ReactiveUI: https://github.com/reactiveui/ReactiveUI (though you can use it together with MvvmCross) It might be an unfair comparison as MvX is a much older project but it…

Replacing "dog" with "cat" does not work... though the resulting interpretation ("photo of Robert S. McNamara") is oddly yellowed.

So that customers who don't want to have to mess with emulators can just buy a game and play it? That's one of the primary reasons to use GOG - even the ancient games they sell (in…

You seem to have confused non-ionizing radiation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ionizing_radiation#Health_r... ) (the type mentioned in the article) with ionizing radiation ( h…

It's now even included in PlayStation Plus subscriptions ($50/year) on the PS3: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/01/13/playstation-plus-b...

Git was released in 2005, so while it's probably not a coincidence it most likely has nothing to do with a keyboard from the 70s.

... 8 years ago.

Affiliate links are explicitly how the site makes money: http://thesweethome.com/how-to-support-the-sweethome/ So I guess I'm not too harsh on them.

I'd also add changes (improvements, in my opinion) in labor and safety laws. I suppose that falls under "[changes in] the relationship between government and business" but I think …