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Too sad. What a loss. Condolences for the poor family. We never know the day or the hour when death will come, which is something to be mindful of. I have found this an interesting site to reflect on our eternal destiny: http://needgod.com/

This was fascinating. Awesome visualizations. Thanks for posting.

Didn't know about this. Love it! Thanks for sharing.

Appreciate your reply, and without needlessly belaboring the issue any more then I have, perhaps a "greatest hits" page for worthy articles would be in order as suggested below. Because truly, it can be difficult to ensure seeing every worthy article that makes it's way up the HN page.

Ok, a third time for the literalists, but I think it is my last attempt. Nothing spoils a news.ycombinator.com comment party like the scolding professor who comments: "We've had this story posted a number of times here. One ruler to the hand for each iteration." Particularly with something so comical. This blog post should be re-posted at least monthly. And for the humor-impaired weekly.

No do as you will with me cruel world. You can take away my karma and even my upvote, but you can't take away my dignity.

(On the other hand, if the down votes were for recommending GOTO instead of GOSUB, then this is completely understandable.)

Ouch, down-voted. Who said programmers have no sense of humor? Well how about this way:

"Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment." - Nathaniel Cotton

Syntax error

(you forgot the GOTO :)

Sounds great. Any chance you guys will be getting involved in HTML5 game support?

Ah, very good. Yes the term XDR-TB makes more sense in the absence of knowing if every potential antimicrobial therapy has been exhausted. Always found it interesting that the last line therapy is lobectomy or pneumonectomy. TB is a terrible disease for which we will hopefully always stay a few steps ahead.

I think that what is termed "totally drug resistant TB" is more a matter of semantics as the article points out. I was in medical training in Southern California about 8 years ago and spent some time with a large county tuberculosis surveillance unit as part of a public health assignment. There were about five cases of then termed "multi-drug resistant TB" whereby the patients were either confined to their homes or an isolation unit in a hospital. They were under mandatory confinement and observation, enforceable by law. I had no idea that such cases existed at the time. I would refer people to this wikipedia article which has good information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-drug-resistant_tuberculos...

I have to say that I like the perspective. I think that a good programmer should be able to use virtually any good language to create anything.

In particular, it seems worthwhile, if for example one is well versed in say Ruby, to learn C to get at the root of what is occurring "under the hood". I really enjoy Ruby, but I'm learning C to fully immerse myself in what is occurring with the bits and bytes (or at least the bytes).

This is a great article. Just started learning C a couple of weeks ago. The peculiarities pointed out in the article make much more sense now. It's great to read about original hackers long before there was HN.

I've thought of using Lua and if I recall correctly, work has been done to develop iPhone games with Lua as well? Ah, where is the time?

Nice write up. I wrote my own 2d game engine in C++ a while back. Switching to Ruby was great, but I never made any games. I did make a couple of JavaScript HTML 5 games. But here again speed is a limitation, and so am looking into C (and eventually Objective C) to eventually do some iPhone game making. As great as it would be to make games soley with scripting/interpreted languages, I don't think we're there yet.

I've created a couple of games with ImpactJS and have really enjoyed it. I think it's great for tile-based platformer games in particular. But (with enough programming skill), you can bend it to make virtually any type of 2D game. The code is very well thought out and organized. It's a pleasure to work with generally. Haven't used any of the other HTML5 engines though.

By the way, (warning a shameless plug): I created an HTML5 game loosely based on my best memory of the Sabotage game. The graphics are only marginally better and I couldn't really capture the game play, but it can be tried here(works best on Chrome): http://carbwars.tapjs.com/

Brilliant! As soon as I read the name "Sabotage" I knew it was correct. Thanks for the clip. I had just a monochrome green monitor and didn't realize it also had such striking color.

Nice. Anyone remember a game where essentially little paratroopers fall down from the sky and you have a cannon rotating on a turret to shoot them down? When you hit the little paratroopers they blew into little green pieces all over the screen. That was a blast.

My sister sold our Apple IIe at a yard sale for like $8.00 in the mid 90's :(

I placed a large 4'x3' map of the U.S. in my kids room. They're too young yet to have a concept of a map (computer or otherwise), but I want them to be able to say look at Calfornia, where we live, and take the time to look at each and every state in between to say the State of Maine. With a very large map you get much more of a feel for the position of states relative to one another (or countries for that matter) and then you can also zoom in (get closer) and see what lies within.

Yes, it is very cool in particular to do that on an iPad. But the entire feel is lost. If one looks at the whole US at once, most of the details are lost. Then as soon as you zoom in it is difficult to appreciate the spatial relationship between states as one "journeys" across the country.

That reminds me, I also need to buy a globe. Or is that to be replaced with an animated 3d monitor representation as well?

As an undergrad student, I helped conduct a paste-diet study for NASA. The ideas was that rats who would be aboard the space shuttle would eat a combined meal of rat food mixed with water, thereby solving the problem of little bits of food floating around space compartments. I have assumed since that time that there would be continued experiments regarding animals in space, including the ISS, but I have never followed up on this.

I'm a medical doctor and I'll never forget what one of our respected (and elderly) liver specialists said when asked what he would do regarding a patient with a liver cancer with a particularly poor prognosis. During a roundtable discussion, various younger doctors came up with lengthy suggestions and lots of different chemotherapy regimens, tests, etc. When it was this doctor's turn to speak, he said: "Well, if I were to put myself in that man's shoes, I would go to the store, buy a case of fine liquor and drink myself happy for the next few weeks until I'm gone."

He had seen enough "therapies" to know enough when to forgo them.

Fantastic replies. Thanks all. Very excited to see what's out there.

I'm curious as to how much of the planet (I know, I know it's been demoted) the craft will be able to "see". That is given the distance from the sun will it be draped in darkness, barely visible?

I had a comic as a kid that had these really freaky cold aliens that lived on Pluto in very dim light conditions. That's my only reference point.

This is great. I'm a practicing medical doctor and a coder. My friend and I are going to give the healthcare one a go. If anything it's good fun and we'll learn more about the real world application of data mining to medicine. Thanks for the links.

Looking forward to the Switch company's LED bulbs. http://switchlightbulbs.com/

This was mentioned on HN a few weeks ago.

I concur. Fantastic post! I encourage everyone to read the pdf of the published work which is linked on the page.

Thanks for the explanation. I like the circles bit. One of the reasons I dropped using Facebook was having to see updates regarding 95% of things I could care less about or simply didn't have time to look at.

On the other hand, Google having your email as well all of this info is somewhat concerning in terms of privacy.

My point was more to show that it can be done if people just want to play around with node.js on windows until it becomes a more first class tool. Not a plug particularly for Cygwin, though it sure beats MS-DOS.

I got node.js to work on Windows XP via Cygwin about 4 or 5 months ago. Here are some useful links:

- Building node.js on Cygwin (be sure to RTFM regarding which version to build). https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/Building-node.js-on-Cygwin-(...

- helpful comments on StackOverflow - in particular running the obscure ash.exe and doing rebaseall seemed to help http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3360948/compiling-node-js...

- self-contained windows binaries of nodejs - I did't try this, but seems like it could save some headaches http://node-js.prcn.co.cc/

Freakin' funny. Love it!