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they mentioned it reached orbit... around the 10 minute mark. pretty fast! I think they mentioned at one point it was traveling at 3km/s. At 12mins, the solar arrays were deployed. They mentioned it would take a few days to dock with the ISS though.

I heard lots of cheering during the deployment of the solar array, I'm guessing past missions this has been the turning point?

XUL is not html, and you'll have to hit the docs every time you need something. Also, debugging XUL is a pain. XUL is pretty ancient too, so that probably doesn't help either.

Sticking with plain jane html is definitely the better approach, however I doubt the XUL implementers would have ever known that back in the year 2000. There's still a bunch of tools for XUL, but fairly rusty: http://xul.sourceforge.net/

I doubt employers would even notice. He's got a pretty generic name so unless you're really doing some hard core sleuthing, I doubt this blog post would appear in a search for "Josh Wu".

And in today's crazy bubble market, if you know what a web browser is, you'll probably get hired.

I don't think this could have been handled privately without lawyers. It was clear that Miso did not want to hand over the $10k when asked nicely. This reminds me of the scalding coffee from McDonalds. The woman tried to handle the matter privately, and McDonalds would probably only had to pay a few thousand in medical bills had the fessed up early, but instead they took it to higher courts and got slapped in the face with a million dollar bill.

The only reason Miso paid up so quickly is that they're hoping the $10k will keep people from grabbing more pitchforks.

If you look at other examples of bad company PR, you'll see that companies tend to react fast when then smell a shit storm coming their way... it has nothing to do with poor communication.

Well in this case, it seems that the company is acting childish. I wouldn't hesitate to hire someone who honest about what he believes in.

To be fair, the mongo people just pulled in a driver that everyone has already been using for the past 2 years or so. christkv's driver has been in use in dozens of projects -- everything from connect to mongoose. It wouldn't make sense to drastically change the API and break all the npm packages out there.

According to the npm registry, there are just over 100 packages that all depend on christkv's library. I'm sure there are more because certain libraries like mongoosejs, simply include the library as part of their package instead of a dependency.

Source: http://search.npmjs.org/#/mongodb

Usually IE8 users are stuck in IE8 unless they let the OS upgrade their browser, so most of the users that started with IE8 are still stuck in 2009. Chrome/FF users tend to have less issues with upgrades.

In addition to these, one will soon notice that you can't really and write some stuff in C to link into your lua engine in corona. The corona system was probably done this way to make it difficult to shoot yourself in the foot.

It does suck though, quite a few friends of mine were burned on new year's eve and are still a bit reluctant to do it again after that one expensive experience. One friend got hit with $200 for going half a mile... he cancelled the trip midway through when someone called him to cancel the cab, and got Uber to refund another $100 or so a few days later.

Lua does have lots of metaprogramming that js lacks, and adding into js could be tricky since you'd essentially have to rewrite existing js code into new code that allows this.

However, the grammar rules are fairly convertible. I've converted a parser that normally targeted javascript, to target lua instead (it was for a project to convert lua code into json).

I wonder if this will make angels worry, the same way that angels made VCs worry. And if so, I wonder if we'll be seeing better terms for future founders from the old system investors.

probably less so... upverter won't simulate it. circuit lab does look like a useful tool though -- great way for kids to learn who probably don't have access to pspice or oscilloscopes.

I'm kind of wondering how a 3D printer could be so expensive ($500). I've made homebrew cnc machines before at around $200 or so.

You could use with(){} in js so you don't have to pollute your global namespace and still have pretty code.

That's odd, because usually servers get owned from faulty wordpress/joomla instances. I rarely hear of web servers getting rooted via web apps run on python. I'm not really an experienced php dev myself, and when I installed joomla on my vm last year, it was rooted within the hour -- I was notified by a data center admin saying my vm was using an insane amount of bandwidth. I'm sure it was some script scanning for boxes with slightly old versions of joomla. I haven't had the same kind of bad luck installing python apps.

If you're in the bay area, I'd probably watch your dog for free even though I'm not an old lady. Mostly, it's because I have a dog as well, and it's hard to find things to tire her out. (she's a very active corgi)

If you're serious, you can find my contact info in my profile.

SF rent is probably more than 3x rent of the bay. I believe the Dojo rent is around $1 per sqft -- mostly because that area is actually zoned as light industrial.

Quota is based on domain, and in your case you're serving up everything from dl.dropbox.com. Maybe these users already have stuff in their localStorage from other sites that happen to use that domain?

Seems like the fix for that would be to serve up the html on your own domain so that other sites, eg dropbox, won't mess with your quotas.

Also, that would fix the location permission dialog that says "dl.dropbox.com wants to track your location".

Standing near a MRI machine is also likely to erase the magnetic material on any of your credit cards -- plus they could never shut off the machine. There's probably a bunch more obvious reasons why MRI was never chosen.

And if some metal object were to get stuck on the machine, they'd need a team of people to remove it. Every airport would also need to keep a good stock of liquid helium for the cases where machines need to be shut down.

to be fair, a basic headless environment (aka server install) is still fairly small (~300mb) even when it includes all the standard libraries, headers, and compilers.

however, I doubt people would balk at 5gb on a laptop install as most people don't really have space limitations there.

You won't be able to install via usb because refit/efi won't enable usb booting. You can use the internal dvd drive for installation however -- or replace the drive with a hard drive containing the installation medium.

Best way to do this is to partition your first drive into 3 partitions before installing OSX using disk utility pre-installation. Install OSX, bootcamp, windows, then linux. Then you're free to remove your dvd drive if you prefer using a hard drive in that bay, but you'll need the drive for OS installations.

I haven't seen Nike or Reebok show hints of transparency in their supply chain. They probably have harsher conditions than tech manufacturing, but I'm guessing they've learned to keep their worker suicide rates on the down low so nobody throws a fuss. I think it's kind of odd that Apple is one of the few companies with this kind of transparency.

only if they have wps enabled...

they both have plugin systems that allow you to write normal objc code to do anything that wasn't available in their apis... so if you ever needed to call opencv code from javascript, you can do that.

There's only 10,000 units in this batch. I'm guessing it will be sold out in an hour or two.

I think it's only true up to a certain value of n. Once the mass transit system has a subway system that has a train every 5 minutes and stops at most a block from any given location, it makes very little sense to drive. When I visited Hong Kong, it felt like this -- massively convenient and efficient. No time wasted looking for parking under $20/hr.

I live about 2 miles from the nearest grocery store, and still cook at home at least 70% of the time. One backpack and a bicycle buys enough food for 2 weeks.

Even when I lived in the suburbs, there were grocery stores at that distance. It just never occurred to me that one could bike to the store and buy stuff, I always drove until I tried using the bike. I think the problem is more psychological than reasoned.

you should run glxgears to see what your fps is. it would also tell you if you're using software rendering or not.

yes, otherwise making a pirated copy of windows would probably "cost" a billion dollars.

that was written in 5 minutes? it would take me that long to position elements with css...