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ygd··on How I made an HDTV antenna so I could watch Jeopardy last night
I used to think Monster cables were a complete joke too until a musician friend pointed out that they have a lifetime warranty and very generous terms of exchange. One can essentially walk into any music store in the country and swap out the splinched cables for new ones, no questions asked.

Is he doing it right? Should the cables fail after every show? Shouldn't he just get better cables?

ygd··on Open Source Cola
I wonder how it tastes...
ygd··on Important Safety Notice from WakeMate
clewiston answered it here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2054884

ygd··on The (Real) Hot Girl Effect and Networking
I thought it was the Moscow Ballet...
ygd··on Dremel – Google's tool for analyzing trillion-row tables in seconds [pdf]
Dremel, Sawzall, what's next?
ygd··on PS3 Master Key Found and PS3 Dongle ID Key Generator Released
IIRC, there's a class-action lawsuit against Sony for removing OtherOS.
ygd··on Why your child's school bus has no seat belts
The actual quote was:

About 440,000 public school buses carry 24 million children more than 4.3 billion miles a year, but only about six children die each year in bus accidents, according to annual statistics compiled the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

So yes, those six or seven only cover the students inside the actual bus.

ygd··on Why Teach Programming with BASIC
What could they possibly need $25K for? As far as I can tell, all it is is a web app + a magazine/book.
ygd··on How Disney Uses Technology To Control Crowds In Their Theme Parks
_If they just allowed a fewer number of people into the park on any given day, would the customers be more likely to return again?_

Well... not the ones that are turned away. They'll be mad.

ygd··on Ask HN: Heroku style, Linux Distro
Adding to this, is there any easy way to set up a git deployment architecture on your own server?
ygd··on Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU
But that's it. I hope they post the slides/video/text to the talk once it's done.
ygd··on My conversation with AT&T
I had my suspicions, and then I came across this line:

    They are expertise on these stuffs.
Yup. Definitely an Indian.
ygd··on China bans English words in media
> Austria-Hungry

Excuse my spelling-nazism, but I believe that should be Austria-Hungary.

Austria-Hungry would mean something completely different.

ygd··on Tonight's Lunar Eclipse Comes With a Rare Twist
The meteor shower makes it even worse for us missing it due to cloudy skies. (SoCal here)
ygd··on Introducing Word Lens
(2 years of classroom Spanish here.)

I like how "Make right turn" becomes "Make correct turn".

ygd··on San Diego Hacker News Meetup #12 (Fri 12/17)
You're getting too much free karma for this...
ygd··on The Hacker's Path
Why do we need a Linux server?
ygd··on Apple engineer uses Lego to rebuild Antikythera mechanism
Reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/659/
ygd··on Can you name the Programming Language if You Know The Creators?
Tip: use *'s for italics, not _'s.
ygd··on What is the First Programming Language You Would Teach Your Child
I'd have to disagree with him. Python is a blast.
ygd··on Berkeley University Course on Starcraft Theory and Strategy
Probably supply and demand stuff. I've never played SC, but I understand that you need to mine for "minerals" and spawn units and build buildings.
ygd··on Ask HN: is the pushdown of TSA backscatter stories algorithmic or manual?
"It seems to me (as a non-American) that America's default response to terrorism is to deprive itself of ever-more civil liberties. This is why I believe some on HN deem TSA articles HN-worthy material."

It's not just how America would respond. Almost any country would up security measures and, as a byproduct, deprive itself of civil liberties.

ygd··on Ask HN: Where to find a good graphic designer
Have you tried 99designs?
ygd··on Ask HN: What do you use?
13" Macbook and a 15.6" Toshiba (with Ubuntu) that needs an external monitor.
ygd··on Ask HN: Why do Hacker News, Reddit, not show the users that voted?
Sites like reddit can garner thousands of votes on a certain comment. Keeping track of these would further decrease reddit's already slow response time.
ygd··on What's happening with Arc?
I've always been meaning to check it out, but the barrier of entry has been too high (likely due to my laziness). IMO: an installer would be a good idea, availability on aptitude would be the best.
ygd··on Ask HN: Which prog. language(Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby) should i learn?
In my opinion, Python is the best of those for.

Python is the most minimalist without being cluttered by unnecessary features (Ruby) or too many functions in the default namespace (PHP). The syntax is very elegant and easy to read (unlike Perl).

I recommend that you read Learn Python the Hard Way(http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index).

ygd··on Adobe + Typekit to bring legendary typefaces to the web
Where's Bleeding Cowboys?
ygd··on How to Write an Operating System
Actually, I got away with a <$200 PC.
ygd··on Magic-1 is a homebuilt minicomputer, cpu and all
What topics did you guys cover (in class)?
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