inconditus's comments

inconditus | 13 years ago | on: Is Facebook down?

Works fine in San Diego, California, but images aren't showing up.

inconditus | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2012)

I've read this advertisement in the last 2-3 "Who's hiring" posts. I finally understand what they do after you highlighted that sentence.

inconditus | 13 years ago | on: Richard Feynman’s Caltech Graduation Address on Integrity

Walter Lewin's been doing it since 198x, probably earlier.

inconditus | 13 years ago | on: Richard Feynman’s Caltech Graduation Address on Integrity

Your anecdote about the bowling ball is (AFAIK) incorrect, you're thinking about Walter Lewin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaALPa7Dwdw. (starts at 1:08)

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: Big Data University: Free Database And Hadoop Courses

FWIW, this is running on Moodle, a very popular e-learning platform.

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: Who Killed Men's Hats? Think Of A Three Letter Word Beginning With 'I'

Just like how the lack of pirates caused global warming, right? ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3aPiratesVsTemp_English.jp...

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Distinct Color Palette generator using Red-Yellow-Blue colorspace

What's pretty cool is that if you generate 1000+ the colors begin to become muted and look "foresty". Why's this?

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: The Moon’s Giant-Collision Theory Proven Incorrect

I'm being picky here, but the word "proven" doesn't really make sense in the context. A more accurate way of expressing the title would be "Evidence supports a different theory" or "Less support for this theory", as theories can never be proven.

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: Samsung releases Galaxy S II ICS source code

CM9 stands for Cyanogenmod 9.

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: MITx First Course "6.002x Circuits and Electronics" is Live

It'd be great if one could toggle the quality of the videos, the default is 480 but I noticed you guys offer 720.

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: Windows 8 Consumer Preview released.

Off topic, but did you wait 8 years upgrading from ME to Vista?

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars

Is this a serious argument? One could say the same thing about:

1) The advent of modern gardening and genetically modified crops. With increased efficiency, where will the extra farmers go?

2) The advent of computers. What will happen to books? The tree cutters? The people who ship the trees to the lumber plant?

I could go on and on about ANY technological advance in the last 200 years. I don't see how cars are any different that will bring "marxism or communism".

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: MIT Level Introductory Physics - Free Online Course Starts March 1st

Perhaps they just started now, Physics h7B requires it. http://ninjacourses.com/explore/course/2433/#books

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: MIT Level Introductory Physics - Free Online Course Starts March 1st

UC Berkeley uses the books for their course. I'm not sure which specific class though.

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: Be better at math: Running causes neurogenesis in spatial reasoning region.

As mentioned below, BrainWorkshop(http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/) is an open source version of the software, and they offer usage statistics if anyone's interested: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoDHizcNs2tWdDd...

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: Amazon launches as Junglee in India

Amazon made Junglee, at least according to the "service provided by Amazon" on the bottom.

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: Tell HN: RAM Requirements are going through the roof

Certainly all true points. However, for the people without the luxury of 16GB (I'm running on an old machine, with 3gb of RAM), Chrome consistently freezes the computer due to the resource hogging. I've learned my lesson and switched to Firefox.

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: Anonymous' new weapon

Anyone have a source? I'm curious how crafted GET statements can lead to a DDOS.

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: Amazon studios

Thanks for correcting me. Also, we have similar usernames. ;)

inconditus | 14 years ago | on: Amazon studios

Amazon Studios has been out for at least 4 months previous to the writing.