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by whyenot 12y ago
Labeling things with -Kit dates back to early NeXTSTEP (1989). I believe it was originally intended as an indicator that a library included an object-oriented API.
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by whyenot 12y ago
> It's very hard to genetically modify a plant that doesn't produce any seeds! Huh? Gene modification in plants is almost always done on individual cells that are then grown into fully-differentiated plants using tissue culture
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by whyenot 12y ago
If anything, it's very Apple-ish. Apple II+, Apple III+, Macintosh Plus, Apple IIc Plus, Laserwriter Plus, ...
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19.3% of US women raped during their lifetime, 43.6% other sexual violence(cdc.gov)
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American Southwest has 80% chance of decade-long drought this century(arstechnica.com)
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by whyenot 12y ago
There is more than one plant with the common name "mother-in-law's tongue." I think OP might have been referring to Dieffenbachia sp. which is a tropical rainforest understory plant and does very well in the low light condi
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by whyenot 12y ago
This is good advice, but it's also sort of like taking painkillers when you have a broken leg: it helps with the symptoms but doesn't address the underlying problem. If you have mold growing on top of the soil, it almost always is
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by whyenot 12y ago
From a plants point of view, there really isn't anything wrong with fluorescent light, the issue is not enough light intensity. If you measure the photosynthetically active radiation in a normal office it's about 30-100 umol PPFD;
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by whyenot 12y ago
> The present career change does seem a bit like selling out. Why? To quote wikipeida, "selling out is the compromising of integrity, morality, authenticity or principles in exchange for personal gain, such as money." That seem
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by whyenot 12y ago
Hi, the Zotero project is open source and non-profit, currently getting the majority of its funding from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Following the open source model, it depends on people
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by whyenot 12y ago
From its earliest days, one of the selling points of Guile was that eventually it should be possible to use it to run Emacs Lisp. This is one of the reasons RMS chose it as the GNU's official extension language. For some of the other r
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by whyenot 12y ago
I am a scientist (a botanist) and I don't think the objection is short sighted. You are fundamentally changing the base of the marine food web. This is not a system that is well understood, and one that is difficult to model. This type
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by whyenot 12y ago
> If it doesn't get it from the users (like it never was) But early Mozilla was supported by its users, through donations of both code and money. Volunteers also spearheaded the hugely successful "get Firefox" campaign. Th
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by whyenot 12y ago
Meh. Mozilla has to do this because they have become fat and bloated thanks to Google money. They should go back to their roots and shrink back down to the scrappy little organization that depended on its users for donations and promotion.
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by whyenot 12y ago
I'm not a farmer with junior water rights, so no I'm not concerned. Even in dry years as we are experiencing now, California has more than enough water for domestic use. Some communities, especially those dependent on small local
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by whyenot 12y ago
California has a mediterranean climate. It is normal for most of the state to receive no significant rainfall May-October and for streams and rivers, especially in the coastal range, to run dry by late summer.
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by whyenot 12y ago
This is a documentary describing how IBM developed the first hard disk. It's a shame the HN title is so vague.
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by whyenot 12y ago
Probably not. Seeds are live plants enclosed in several layers of protection to make them transportable and to avoid drying out. There are two reasons seeds don't germinate: (1) they are viable (still alive), but it's difficult to
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by whyenot 12y ago
I don't know how familiar you may be with rural hospitals in Africa (and for that matter some parts of Asia and South America), but most don't have any sophisticated equipment like "space suits," many don't even h
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by whyenot 12y ago
> that needs HTML? I think you are setting the bar a little too high. It seems to me like there is quite a bit of mail that benefits from HTML. Superscripts, subscripts, italics, bold and colored text (used in moderation), inline images
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by whyenot 12y ago
I thought flame retardants still had to be added to wool mattresses. This source seems to back that up, but the information may be biased or out of date. http://www.strobel.com/wool_burns.htm
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by whyenot 12y ago
When I lived in SF I was close enough to a Muni line that I almost never needed to take a taxi. The three times I did, all late at night, the taxis showed up promptly, the fares were reasonable, I felt safe, and I got where I needed to go.
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Monkey photo copyright in question as Wikipedia denies takedown request(dpreview.com)
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by whyenot 12y ago
I don't think they would snap their fingers and every Mac they sell would abruptly switch to ARM. If they chose to go with ARM they would almost certainly move more gradually and come out with only one or two ARM machines at first. May
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by whyenot 12y ago
On HN people will usually expect you to cite some sources when making claims like this.
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by whyenot 12y ago
Why would he be rolling in his grave? When Steve Jobs returned to Apple his laptop of choice was an IBM Thinkpad (560E). In fact, "he delivered it to Apple’s designers as a model of where the PowerBook line needed to go." http:&#
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by whyenot 12y ago
Maybe because it's not that clear cut. A local train covers the same distance in 91 minutes (vs 81 minutes for this shuttle) but also makes every stop. A baby bullet train that makes roughly the same number of stops as the shuttle does
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by whyenot 12y ago
The microSD card and changes to the ports (more flush USB) also reduce the footprint which means I should be able to cram a new version of my Pi motion activated camera into a smaller waterproof case. This makes me very happy. The lower pow
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by whyenot 12y ago
The angry masculine look of these isn't my style but I really like the idea. A 10 mile range is much better than I expected. I could see these becoming quite popular on college campuses. I don't know about "zipping along the
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by whyenot 12y ago
It's also fantastic for tmobile customers who like music. If it reduces my monthly bill, I'm all for it.

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