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jackcarter··on Space Shuttle Mission Archives – Challenger, January 28, 1986
It's actually in What Do You Care What Other People Think. About half the book is dedicated to it, and it's an incredible read.
jackcarter··on Show HN: Intentionally subtle headphone crossfeed filter
How expensive would that be? Plenty of people already wear headphones to shows. I bet some of them would love to have a high-quality audio souvenir, replicating exactly what they heard.
jackcarter··on Barf bags on airplanes: Are rates of airsickness declining?
Ha, perfect timing. Yesterday the guy next to me threw up in his hands on takeoff. He hadn't looked for a bag; I expect he thought he could ride it out. I handed him mine.

I can't imagine the bags are a significant cost to airlines -- everyone's heard of the 'American Airline olive,' but those were actually being consumed every flight. Compare that to the PR from customers smelling vomit for hours because there was no bag.

jackcarter··on Book design inspired by Edward Tufte
That is the most ridiculous curve fit I've ever seen.
jackcarter··on How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline
Check your browser extensions. You might have one installed that invisibly changes 'disruption' to 'bullshitting.'
jackcarter··on Bezos Faces Season of Worsts as Losses Mount
This is barely on-topic, but hoping that someone has a workaround, I'll share my biggest gripe with Amazon:

When you find a product with multiple options (say, color[1]), often the variations will have different prices. It tells you the minimum and maximum price, but forces you to click through every single variant to see their prices. To make matters worse, it takes multiple seconds to load each price.

Is there any way to view product variants in a table format?

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Nalgene-Tritan-BPA-Free-Bottle-1-Quart...

jackcarter··on Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
Stacked lists are my top request. I still use Trello with the default To-Do, Doing, Done lists. I wish I could group the To-Dos by different lists instead of labels.
jackcarter··on Neural networks in JavaScript
No, that's a pretty standard trivial example for NNs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedforward_neural_network#Mult...

jackcarter··on iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi networks
They can still understand when anonymous shoppers arrive and when they leave. However, I think zaroth is underestimating how much more useful it is to track an individual shopper's visits over time.
jackcarter··on Similarity Measures for Text Document Clustering (2012) [pdf]
Unfortunately, yes:

http://reproducibility.cs.arizona.edu/

jackcarter··on Let the Type System do the Work
I've seen this paradigm called "Tiny Types" before: http://darrenhobbs.com/2007/04/11/tiny-types/
jackcarter··on Facebook quietly ends email address system
They went to your "Other" inbox, which nobody ever checks. It's the same place messages from non-friends go.

Actually, now that I look at it, there's a message from somebody who found my wallet once. Fortunately he also discovered me on LinkedIn, or I would never have noticed.

jackcarter··on The worlds most remote base exit is still untouched
"Exit", short for "exit point", just refers to the place someone BASE jumps off.
jackcarter··on Webhooks Level Up
Can I use this to automatically push to (e.g.) Heroku upon pushing to Github?
jackcarter··on Images Now Showing in Gmail
Is it possible that Google also loads images in emails sent to invalid @gmail.com addresses?
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