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1. 691.▲
   by fernly 12y ago

   Tried to leave this comment on the target page where there is discussion of smoothing the ridged surface: There's another option for a smooth finish, or a finish with a different texture: stucco. The printer could easily create nubs, o
2. 692.▲
   by fernly 12y ago

   Those benighted primitives, why did it never occur to them to make a lens from 7mil clear plastic sheeting?
3. 693.▲
   by fernly 12y ago

   As a long time DP contributor, I'd say the models could not be more different. DP is elaborately and deeply organized around the model of a great many people doing a great many small units of work (stop by once a day and proofread just
4. 694.▲
   by fernly 12y ago

   There seems to be two bits of water involved, as you probably realize. One bit, several gallons, is sitting in a saggy plastic sheet, whose bulge forms a lens. You ask a good question, could one float a skin of oil on that to keep it from e
5. 695.▲
   by fernly 12y ago

   "But I did study Sanskrit for some years in high school." Sheesh. 'round here a really first class high school is one that offers one language other than Spanish.
6. 696.▲
   by fernly 12y ago

   If I needed a reason to avoid Windows 8 and Windows phones, this would do nicely. As it happens, I have for years had a policy of avoiding Microsoft, but it's nice to have my prejudices validated by fact.
7. 697.▲
   by fernly 12y ago

   So what are some of the possible things one could do with this? What remains to make it the basis of a interactive FORTH system that could be hooked to a serial terminal and used, e.g. in a classroom? (Would that be a useful thing to do? Or
8. 698.▲
   by fernly 12y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigfried_sassoon He served with distinction and bravery, then late in the war took a position of public opposition to it. Post-war as an editor he fostered the careers of a number of poets
9. 699.▲
   by fernly 12y ago

   So I can't figure out why this product should exist (as a product, vs. a lab exercise). On the KS page it only mentions "You can finally get the chance to understand whats going on inside those ICs!" Which is worthwhile, I su
10. 700.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    The posted article acknowledges that happiness is in large part a genetic trait, and in other large part the result of life history (parenting, health, etc).
11. 701.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    Yes I knew about drawing lines on a My Map; the interface to do is quite awkward to use, but only straight segments and AFAIK there's no way to set color or line width or dash/dot. In other words, it is like so much about Google M
12. 702.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    This, kartograph.org, looks really useful for the mapmaker who can program. Very, very pretty examples! However, it still requires programming knowledge, Python to create an SVG map, and good HTML/CSS and basic JS to load and display o
13. 703.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    Hmm. I could draw a line representing the boat ride from Flåm Norway around to Gudvangen, so success there. But it's not clear to me what to do with the resulting code, a list of tuples of 15-digit coordinates. Remember, I'm sugge
14. 704.▲
    Ask HN: Could somebody please create a friendly interface to Google Maps API?

    2 points by fernly 12y ago|7 comments
15. 705.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    food STARTS coming in 6 minutes. That could mean a basket of rolls and some olive oil for dipping. Or maybe they have all the salads pre-made so they can whip out the salad course.
16. 706.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    As noted in the article, Google is in Mountain View, Apple in Santa Clara, both suburban towns well outside SF. Both towns have strict development laws, also described in the article, that throttle development. Apple has proposed building a
17. 707.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    Howdy, neighbor! Or so I imagine, since you could be describing my neighborhood. Our 1,300sqft, 90yo cottage is, per Zillow, worth $1.3M. We bought in 1973, paid off the mortgage in the 90s, and yeah, our recent assessment notice had only a
18. 708.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    Thank you for that!
19. 709.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    There are numerous recumbent bikes[1] and trikes[2] that use simple front fairings for speed and weather protection. Some builders like [3] put fully-enclosed bodies over OEM trikes to get velomobiles. And there are from-the-ground-up velom
20. 710.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    I've thought about scaled-down solar system models before but never encountered the coincidence between AUs in a lightyear and inches in a mile. That's effin' beautiful! Thank you!
21. 711.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    Never never underestimate the power of N.I.H.[1] in human affairs. Creative people with time to spare can't resist the temptation to think "how would I do that? oooh I can think of several tweaks that would make it better. I shoul
22. 712.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    I am a long-time DirecTV customer and regularly (monthly) get glossy mailings from AT&T promoting U-Verse with various discounts and enticing promises of high-bandwidth internet and an advanced DVR. But when I specifically explored it,
23. 713.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    It will be interesting when they get down the to-do list to fmt, which contains the Knuth-Plass paragraph reflow algorithm -- the only C-language version I've been able to find, and about the only readable one, after Knuth's &quot
24. 714.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    Really? The sort of comic I was thinking of would include, let's see, Sinfest, Romantically Apocalyptic, Drive, SSSS, Questionable Content... I could go on, but each one of these extends the field of comic-strip art along at least one
25. 715.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    I wonder if Watterson really believes the gag line for the third strip, "Nah, the art form's dying"? He might, being (apparently) a neo-luddite of some sort. But there has never been as many, or as good, comics as there are n
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    by fernly 12y ago

    Oooh? Am I gonna finally get my 4k Retina iMac? Please?
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    by fernly 12y ago

    Thanks for the pointer. I find the documentation pretty resistant to a quick lookover, read "The Scribble Syntax at a Glance" and be afraid. However I see that it does support centered text, intentional line breaks and -- unique a
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    by fernly 12y ago

    Thanks for pointing out YALML (lightweight markup language) for my collection! With regard to my comment below, I note that Org does support a Centered mode for paragraphs and a Verse mode in which line breaks are preserved, although it doe
29. 719.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    I've been comparing these things (ascii markups) lately, mainly because I'm writing software to support an organization with a long history using not one, not two, but three unique ascii markup conventions. Could these somehow be
30. 720.▲
    by fernly 12y ago

    As in documenting an API or command syntax, when you want to go from mono (literal) to italic (variable input) with no break. In Skriv it would be ##--input=##''filename'' except that (a) Skriv requires a space and even