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If I did my trigonometry right, the edges of the cylinder would be about at the 35.26° latitudes, which seems pretty fat to me.

I'd like to see the tree starting from the other end of the maze too.

Kevo for Bluetooth LE: http://amzn.com/B00CPTD5AQ

If you add a Z-Wave controller like SmartThings, there are many options, including with keypads if you don't have your phone: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?field-keywords=z-wa...

It's not just the excessive number of merges that git pull creates – they also have the wrong orientation.

Since pull merges others' commits on top of yours, the diff it creates is full of their changes but has your name on it, which clouds blame and history and makes conflict resolution more difficult. I think this is something git should fix.

See this article about merge direction: http://tech.novapost.fr/merging-the-right-way-en.html

You should add that to the "Show me" tour on the website, because currently it looks like the user has to check the box before they see the info, which seems like it would have more psychological friction than also having a (?) button.

It's a learning technique where the software tries to show you a flashcard for review right before you would have forgotten it otherwise. So each time you see it, it will be longer until the next time you see it. That way, you're not wasting time looking at a bunch of stuff you already know well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

also: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...

You're thinking of Cool Whip

Agreed. It seems messy at first, but what Ruby does is make it possible to write code in the most readable way.

    a[first..last]
    left, right = a[0...pivot], a[pivot...a.len]
    a[start, len]

If the coder picks the right one and the variable names are good, the reader won't have to think about it.

Argh, why does no one include a tilde in the sample? A raised tilde ruins a font for me because of the ruby match operator: =~

That post said nothing about speed or latency.

Not locked to a central service provider.

Is that available as a bookmarklet, where you can select content on an existing page and extract markdown to the clipboard?

Or the third panel of http://xkcd.com/207/

Linguists have been working on a formal syntax for natural language for more than a hundred years and still haven't succeeded completely. I'd say formal logic is a language, not the reverse. You have to take away a lot of what we do with language to get it to work as a logical system.

'Cloud' used to mean hill.

He didn't attack arguments based on usage, just outdated usage. The point of syntax is to be understood, not to prove you are educated. I'd hope you know what I mean when I say 'different than'. Language is going to change no matter what; being a prescriptivist means leading a significantly more annoyed life.

The point of the example was to show how something other than z-index, position, and order can affect stacking. It wasn't demonstrating the correct way to go about changing the stacking order.

Is that really where the name comes from? I thought Notch said it was "10 to the c", referring to the "0x0001 0000 0000 0000 years" from the story.

I'm hoping Apple is waiting for this to be ready before they update the Mac Pro hardware.

Yes, it is elitist, but judging someone as being not up to the standards of a community is not the same as calling them subhuman.

As for the conclusion, the argument he's making is that he has seen evidence of a bias against making these harsh judgements, and it has led to the destruction of valuable internet communities.

Not to mention perfect real-time traffic data. Also they could get some info on business patronization.

It looks like you have the same problems with incorrect input. I tried typing Hello without the '#' and the error was much more confusing than "Oops. Try again"

Someone should sell a usb dongle with an ARM chip on it that can run android using the emulator on your dev machine for display and input.

Debugging on a phone is not so bad, but it's not quite as nice as the iOS simulator experience.

Did you pretend like you were talking to a real person? I could see the conversational style that Siri supports breaking down some of the awkwardness of this.

I would feel less awkward saying "Hey Siri, what's the weather going to be like tomorrow?" into my phone than "WEATHER. TOMORROW."

You should try it with the xkcd color dataset.

http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

The single select also cannot be reached by pressing the tab key (for me, Safari 5.0.5). When I fill out a form, my hands are on the keyboard. I tab to the country field, start typing my country to select it, and move on. So I'd say the single select is worse than native on both Safari and Mobile Safari.

The multi-select is great, though. Why not make the single select work like the multiple?

It could also skew the other way. Previously, I would often refrain from voting up a good comment if its score was already "high enough", so that my vote on an equally good but lower-rated comment would have relatively more weight.

I've been hearing about http://www.coursekit.com

Except they didn't say that they are doing this to bring attention to security issues. They are doing it because they can, and because it brings them some entertainment – that's the point the gunshot analogy was addressing.

They only bring up all the silent malicious hacking that happens as an argument that we shouldn't care so much about what they're doing.

It does. I use it to check quick c questions. It works kind of like gdb's 'p' command, but you can also execute c code by putting it in braces.

Here's an excerpt from my most recent cint repl session:

  cint> {long x = 84bfaad645e2e33f; double * p = &x;}
  Warning: Illegal numerical expression 84bfaad645e2e33f FILE:(tmpfile) LINE:1
  cint> {long x = 0x84bfaad645e2e33f; double * p = &x;}
  cint> p p
  (double*)0x100809480
  cint> p *p
  (double)(-8.31870270613823687e-286)