zcrackerz
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5 years ago
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on: Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted
Think of your velocity vector as having a time component. The magnitude of this vector is c, so when you are at rest, you're moving full speed through time. When you accelerate, you shift some of this speed into the spatial dimensions. This is also why time passes more slowly for moving objects. Gravity also has this effect because not only is space curved, but space-time is curved. This means what would normally be a straight path through time is partially warped into the spatial dimensions when you encounter such a curvature.
zcrackerz
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5 years ago
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on: SEC Charges Interactive Brokers with Repeatedly Failing to File SARs
Sure it is, an agency is a generic term and isn't limited to government entities.
zcrackerz
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5 years ago
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on: GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row
Are black developers uncomfortable with the existing name?
zcrackerz
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5 years ago
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on: Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs via Telegram
I hate to pile on, but you're putting up a lot of barriers that are going to discourage casual viewers. I don't want to sign up for some app I won't use for anything else. I don't want to give out my email. I definitely don't want to pay for anything. Maybe I'm not your target market, but this is going to be a hard pass for many people.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: Apple acquires Dark Sky
That's because Google is an ad company while Apple is a hardware company.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: Windows: Interface Guidelines (1995) [pdf]
That's funny, I did the exact same thing, although I didn't make it as far as you. I had a working mouse cursor (reading the mouse data directly from the serial port) and buttons. At that age, I didn't know about subroutines and had gotos all over the place.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: Rubberduck – COM add-in that enables IDE features in the Visual Basic Editor
Thanks, I was thinking VB6, which I thought was relatively fine as an IDE for its time, although could probably benefit from some ReSharper-style improvements.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: Yocto: Tools for building a custom embedded Linux distribution
You've never heard of a slow-poke? Similar usage, you can be pokey or you can be a slow-poke, both mean slow. The "small" definition is new to me. Seems like difference between British/American English.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: How Y Combinator Started (2012)
There's really no reason to secure a site if it's just informational or someone's blog. The worst that's going to happen in this case is someone might be able to see the blog sent to you in plain text, which is no big deal, because it's public anyway. Now if it has a form asking you to enter personal information or credit card numbers, you would definitely want SSL.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: Toshiba device tests cancer types from a drop of blood
Most likely some form of Windows CE, but close enough.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: The Editable PDF Initiative
MacOS's built-in Preview app can do this. It's fairly limited, but it supports text boxes and signatures, which I have found very useful for not needing to install custom software.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: For six years, man who refuses to identify himself has held in a Canadian prison
It's reasonable for casual biometrics, such as a phone unlock, where the likelihood of someone with a match trying to use your phone is remote. Many people will choose the same password or PIN, for example, but of course you can't change your fingerprint on a whim.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: For six years, man who refuses to identify himself has held in a Canadian prison
In the presence of other evidence, it's definitely useful to narrow down to reasonable doubt territory. Even DNA isn't unique, in the case of twins, but is still used all the time.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time
They really ought to, when possible. I can't count the number of times I've encountered a new word that I could trace back to a basic Latin root. I feel like it gives you a good foundation for any romance language and goes hand in hand with the history of western civilization.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media
I stopped posting happy birthday's on FB because it's always someone's birthday. Occasionally I will wish a close friend a happy birthday, but usually through text message. It's also annoying on my birthday when all these people I barely know come out of the woodwork to comment. I usually ignore FB that day, then reply to all with a thank you the day after.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: Woman treated by doctors after her blood turned blue
If they didn't have it on hand they could go down to the local Walmart, I've used it many times to treat my fish with ich.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: Wikipedia's JavaScript Initialisation on a Budget
It may never be prioritized, but it's much better to have a bug report/ticket than to casually mention this in a comment no one will ever see.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: Edward Snowden says he would like to return home
If it were an actual pardon there would be no way to retract it. Now if they just declined to prosecute, that would be a different story.
zcrackerz
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6 years ago
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on: SmartyKit Apple I replica
Wasn't the Apple I originally shipped as a kit that you had to put together? I think it's trying to recreate that same idea, but with easier assembly.
