Edootjuh's comments

It auto-submits when you type the right language.

I can think of a few examples. Controlling your music player while in another program. For Wii-like games but also for example for making signals to teammates in FPSs. As the article said, presense detection. Perhaps for desktop switching to free up screen real-estate.

I think the problem with the font rendering in this screenshot is the hinting. When you hint the fonts too strongly they lose their character and the diagonals' width becomes inconsistent with the straight lines' width, as you can see in the lowercase 'w', for example. If this uses the FreeType library, you can set the font hinting to 'Slight' or 'Medium' and fonts look a lot better.

http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h...

You can disable the compatibility check in about:flags. Works fine here.

I noticed this book: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13693/13693-pdf.pdf, perhaps others, are missing a table of contents but compiling the tex source does give me one; it has probably only been compiled in one pass.

The server crashed due to HN coverage: https://twitter.com/#!/aperiodical/status/195557677680689152

"the server has crashed after having HackerNews pointed at it. Trying to get it rebooted now, and then we'll enable caching! #toosuccessful"

Also, no search engines seem to have cached it.

EDIT: Blog linked to http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Mathematics_%28Bookshelf%29 .

It's on the right of the page.

You've never seen a VB.NET vs. C# argument? Call yourself lucky.

It's actually not so much netcat, but the Unix system that has such flexibility.

My peak is when I have to go to bed and the next day I have something very important to do, for which I have to be well-rested.

Very cool. It's interesting to see how elevation affects the wind here (http://www.theodora.com/maps/new9/usa_elevation_map.gif), but I'd wish there was a worldwide version. (I'm aware that you need a data source)

Should you be interested, here's data from the Netherlands: http://www.knmi.nl/samenw/hydra/cgi-bin/register.cgi

I've never liked these scrolling animations. You need too much precision to see a part of the page clearly, while with normal scrolling it wouldn't matter if the information you're reading is at the bottom or top of the screen.

Or any body parts that might be in the way between the pinky and the MRI machine.

That's interesting too, but differs in that there still needs to be a unobstructed path to the object from the laser, in which case it could as well have been a camera.

Still very clever, though.

This is really interesting. I wonder how the mathematics work of using different directions to find the locations of bounces, and how much the accuracy can increase with more directions.

I disagree. The author seems to forget the fact that packages are only a layer of added ease of installing new software. The act of installing new software from source or binaries distributed by the author is still as free as ever.

I admit that I do install about 90% of my programs as packages, but the problem of central authorities responsible for patching and distributing software and taking too long to do it isn't present in every distribution. I've used Arch Linux for years now, and it solves this problem by separating the packages into an 'official' channel of reliable maintainers testing and releasing new versions on the package system and a user repository where anyone can add packages.

To me, this seems like the optimal solution. Community-maintained packages can be promoted to official ones, from what I can see new versions are released from testing within days and if you're not satisfied with how others maintain the packages, building the packages from the newest versions yourself is almost as easy as installing binaries from the repository because anyone can use the build and packaging scripts used by the maintainers themselves.

I find that almost every time something breaks it's really because I haven't been careful enough. What you need to do is watch out for any messages during updating (especially during kernel updates) and make sure to just use sudo carefully etc.

I also want to add that while people always seem to talk about Arch breaking, it has hardly broken more for me that Windows of Ubuntu have in the same period of time. The advantage is that when Arch breaks, you fix it because you just tend to really learn how your system works when you use Arch, while in Windows and Ubuntu, I'd just reinstall usually.

I use Arch as my only OS, for day-to-day use, and it's perfectly stable when I'm not actively experimenting etc.

Many desktop e-mail clients have their own rendering engines. Outlook, I believe, uses Word's HTML engine, for example.

Both models have an advantage. The padding outside the width makes it easy to make a border that doesn't touch the box, while the padding inside the box makes... well... padding a box easier.

Personally, I find the padding inside the box more valuable so when I found the `* { box-sizing: border-box }` post I decided to use it, and it's also what I expected it to behave like when starting web design.

Minwin didn't ship on its own, but was really an artifact of their efforts to make the components in the kernel less dependent on each other, while developing Windows Vista. I'm not sure how successful their efforts were, seeing as even "Server Core", supposedly the most minimal Windows Server edition possible, still mandates a GUI.

I recall reading an article which talked about the kernel team assigning level numbers to every kernel component, giving the GUI a high level processor scheduling and such a low level, and trying to reduce the dependency between the different levels. Minwin was merely a Windows kernel that has none of the higher level components, but the problem with it is that they didn't manage to completely modularize the kernel so that if you would add some new components they would require a slew of other components.

Still, they've managed to make Internet Explorer optional, but I'm not sure what other benefits the modularization of Windows Vista's kernel has brought.