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I think it was more a sign of the times and the fact that it was a B round. You can elaborate a bit at the B stage.

You can price something for any amount. Whether it sells at all or in vast quantities is another matter :)

I remember recognizing at CMU that the many of the computers were named after Phish songs. Always enjoyed working at 'weekapaug'

Our team has been using it for the last few months and absolutely love it. Best side effect is much more descriptive commit messages. Thanks @miped

However, it's quite easy for us to believe our aptitude will make us the exception. Adding a numerical grain of salt is helpful for the evaluation.

I would say the main reason is because there's not a 'Save As SVG' in photoshop. Most non tech people haven't heard of SVG and by the time they have, they already have a process for making images and the switch doesn't have enough apparent value on the surface.

Some, hopefully, constructive criticism:

The rain drops are too spherical as they traverse the screen. The friction plus surface tension of a water on glass pulls the tail out significantly farther then represented and also varies on whether the drop is following a path that's already been traversed and therefore has less friction. It would be really really cool to see that effect added in.

She should :)

Please link to your individual products on http://www.40degreesnorth.co.uk/. It lists them but they're not links.

Ahhh in the dropdown. Thanks

But are the shirts any good? No mention of material or examples of how one might look.

I can't believe in the entire article they didn't mention who would be eating the 5 ounce burger. Who gets to try it!?

I used to script FORTRAN back when I was in nuclear engineering. I didn't know of Fortran's particular advantages other then that the software we used was built in FORTRAN and all our scripts to date that we used were built in FORTRAN and the general attitude in the uber-safe world of nuclear engineering is if it works, and works well, why in god's name would you mess with it :)

Thank you.

Man I wish. Enough talk about Monkey Island. Escape Velocity was a fantastic adventure game that could use some more sequels.

And people think radiation is bad. At least radiation decays. The chemicals in this superfund site stay around for ever!

I disagree. I think it's very healthy to open up the conversation again. I've been surprised at how much it hasn't been talked about in the last few months (not referring to online but in person). It was weird to be at startup events shortly after Jody's passing with people who knew him well and have absolutely no mention of it.

You don't fall into, 'oh I didn't wake up at 4 so the 8.30 doesn't matter' trap?

I have this exact same problem. Whenever I try to make a new good habit or break a bad habit, it's always all or nothing. Once I slip into the grey my mind is to good at rationalizing my way towards the other pole.

Sometimes it's more about understanding what is real and then making a pragmatic choice due to the pain of having to explain one self constantly. A woman could fully understand that a ring is worthless but deal in circles where the public perception is such that having one anyway is beneficial.

I'd love to see Azure's numbers added. Does anyone use Azure yet?

This really hit home for me one winter vacation when I decided to fast for 5 days straight. I had absolutely nothing to do so I mainly played video games and read. I couldn't believe how not hungry I was and how utterly bored I was because I wasn't occupying my days with procuring, preparing, eating, cleaning.

I've been kind of surprised by ign's writing lately. They've gotten a lot more thoughtful, past the simple game review writing and have much more intelligent pieces these days.

Phase change sounds a lot cooler then what the article was trying to put forth.

Dielectric liquid cooled computers have been around a long time. I even did my capstone project my senior year taking a 3M dielectric fluid and attempting to make a liquid cooled laptop.

What's always forgotten is you have to move the heat farther then you think. Dielectric fluids are great for getting the heat off the cpu but then where do you move it to? In my project we tried to use the back of the laptop monitor to be a large surface area for natural convention. Boiling is much cooler (literally).

Laptop of course wouldn't work out because imagine trying to manufacture those things at scale! Also, these fluids when they evaporate aren't exactly kind to the atmosphere.

Agreed. Testing against some of my production apps now to get a better feel.

Basic Ruby 2.0 benchmarks calculating pi from gist [1]

$ ruby --version

ruby 1.9.3p385 (2013-02-06 revision 39114) [x86_64-darwin12.2.1]

$ time ruby pidigits.rb 10000 2>&1 > /dev/null

17.51s user 0.11s system 99% cpu 17.639 total

$ ruby --version

ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474) [x86_64-darwin12.2.1]

$ time ruby pidigits.rb 10000 2>&1 > /dev/null

4.64s user 0.27s system 99% cpu 4.927 total

That's a significant difference in speed. Going from 17.51 seconds to 4.64 seconds

1. https://gist.github.com/thoughtpolice/5025417

It's certainly not a bad idea. I'm avoiding capital intensive companies for the moment :)

There are a great amount of powers that do not want cheap electricity for the world.

"Giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun." - Paul Ehrlich.

Or Amory Lovins, who was advisor to many U.S. presidents who said "If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it."

I completely disagree with the above sentiment, but you can be sure that energy companies will always try to limit supply so that demand can be set at the right price for them to make the profit they want. We're seeing it right now with natural gas cornering the american market. NG's prices are notoriously volatile because it's easy for the companies delivering it to change the supply until demand is where they want it.

Yea there's only one problem with them. They're not sailboats :)

I'm very happy to see this. We've still been paying out a lot to our artists by ach by hand and it's miserable. There are apis out there provided by banks but they're god awful and require a lot of hand holding to set up. I'll be using this immediately.