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Very cool. It's interesting to see how elevation affects the wind here (http://www.theodora.com/maps/new9/usa_elevation_map.gif), but I'd wish there was a worldwide version. (I'm aware that you need a data source)

Should you be interested, here's data from the Netherlands: http://www.knmi.nl/samenw/hydra/cgi-bin/register.cgi

I've never liked these scrolling animations. You need too much precision to see a part of the page clearly, while with normal scrolling it wouldn't matter if the information you're reading is at the bottom or top of the screen.

Or any body parts that might be in the way between the pinky and the MRI machine.

That's interesting too, but differs in that there still needs to be a unobstructed path to the object from the laser, in which case it could as well have been a camera.

Still very clever, though.

This is really interesting. I wonder how the mathematics work of using different directions to find the locations of bounces, and how much the accuracy can increase with more directions.

I disagree. The author seems to forget the fact that packages are only a layer of added ease of installing new software. The act of installing new software from source or binaries distributed by the author is still as free as ever.

I admit that I do install about 90% of my programs as packages, but the problem of central authorities responsible for patching and distributing software and taking too long to do it isn't present in every distribution. I've used Arch Linux for years now, and it solves this problem by separating the packages into an 'official' channel of reliable maintainers testing and releasing new versions on the package system and a user repository where anyone can add packages.

To me, this seems like the optimal solution. Community-maintained packages can be promoted to official ones, from what I can see new versions are released from testing within days and if you're not satisfied with how others maintain the packages, building the packages from the newest versions yourself is almost as easy as installing binaries from the repository because anyone can use the build and packaging scripts used by the maintainers themselves.

I find that almost every time something breaks it's really because I haven't been careful enough. What you need to do is watch out for any messages during updating (especially during kernel updates) and make sure to just use sudo carefully etc.

I also want to add that while people always seem to talk about Arch breaking, it has hardly broken more for me that Windows of Ubuntu have in the same period of time. The advantage is that when Arch breaks, you fix it because you just tend to really learn how your system works when you use Arch, while in Windows and Ubuntu, I'd just reinstall usually.

I use Arch as my only OS, for day-to-day use, and it's perfectly stable when I'm not actively experimenting etc.

Many desktop e-mail clients have their own rendering engines. Outlook, I believe, uses Word's HTML engine, for example.

Both models have an advantage. The padding outside the width makes it easy to make a border that doesn't touch the box, while the padding inside the box makes... well... padding a box easier.

Personally, I find the padding inside the box more valuable so when I found the `* { box-sizing: border-box }` post I decided to use it, and it's also what I expected it to behave like when starting web design.

Minwin didn't ship on its own, but was really an artifact of their efforts to make the components in the kernel less dependent on each other, while developing Windows Vista. I'm not sure how successful their efforts were, seeing as even "Server Core", supposedly the most minimal Windows Server edition possible, still mandates a GUI.

I recall reading an article which talked about the kernel team assigning level numbers to every kernel component, giving the GUI a high level processor scheduling and such a low level, and trying to reduce the dependency between the different levels. Minwin was merely a Windows kernel that has none of the higher level components, but the problem with it is that they didn't manage to completely modularize the kernel so that if you would add some new components they would require a slew of other components.

Still, they've managed to make Internet Explorer optional, but I'm not sure what other benefits the modularization of Windows Vista's kernel has brought.

I agree. A problem is that the search results are below the fold on a 800px high screen, and the text would be more descriptive if it said "type to search for features" or something like that, and not be selected on page load (in Chromium at least)

Of course, besides that I think this is very helpful. Thank you very much for making this.

I noticed that in the picture for 'owls' the best time to nap is 2 pm and ~3:15 pm, but the text says 'closer to 2:30 pm or 3 pm. Which is it?

Some tips on how to get white noise.

- Obviously you can set a radio between channels, but I often don't have a radio in the room but do have a computer, so...

- In linux, if you have ALSA installed, you can type

    cat /dev/urandom | aplay -f cd

in the console, or

    cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

for OSS

- On the internet, there's http://simplynoise.com/

> Try asking a teenager how many people they think work for Facebook, or Amazon, or Google.

How exactly is this related to knowledge about programming?

The Name Of The Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss

De ontdekking van de hemel (The Discovery of Heaven), by Harry Mulisch

1984, by George Orwell

Night Angel trilogy, by Brent Weeks

Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies, by Robin Hobb

Gentlemen Bastards series (first two books), by Scott Lynch

Das Parfum (Perfume), by Patrick Süskind

Some may have been from end 2010

Here's a mirror: http://blog.notdot.net.nyud.net/2012/01/Damn-Cool-Algorithms...

The comments on /r/bestof links are usually about the fact that it was posted in /r/bestof, rather than about the subject itself. And if they are about the comment itself, it's really just because the comment itself already had too many replies for a new comment to be noticed.

Right. Just the fact that it's digital means that it has to buffer at least a frame before it can be displayed.

I've been using unison for exactly this for ages. I was wondering whether this will add automatic uploading on file change, but alas, all it suggest is using cron for it.

It's very location specific. In the Netherlands almost everyone uses Windows Live Messenger, while in Germany (or so I heard) ICQ is still much more common.

Though these days I like to think Facebook is taking over because it kind of consolidates e-mail and IM.