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Wow, I am now extremely curious about what the inside of that cave looked like! But I suppose taking pictures of it wouldn't have really served enough practical purpose to deal with hauling something back out of the hole, not the mention the lingering radiation from the previous test would probably instantly expose any film sent down there.

Still! What does the container for a nuclear explosion look like on the inside? Is it smooth and glassy? Does molten material drip down and form stalactites and stalagmites? Does the surface crack as it cools? What color is everything?

Would being angry about it make anything better? Could it restore the missing parts, or go back in time and un-stunt a person?

Being at peace with something is not the same thing as being happy about it.

Our bodies already make little robots to fight bacteria

From what I'm reading it's the entirety of Ubuntu, including apt. Use bash once to apt-get install zsh and you're done.

It's not completely free, and not completely open source, but we've been very happy with Octopus Deploy https://octopus.com/

That and Topshelf https://github.com/Topshelf/Topshelf have made deploying Windows services very easy. Topshelf is slowly adding some Linux/mono support, and OctopusDeploy supports SSH as a deployment option, but unsurprisingly things aren't as nice if Windows isn't your target.

After Disney bought LucasFilm they laid off everyone at LucasArts except those responsible for handling licensing [1]. ILM's work here seems focused on more cinematic stuff - the word "game" doesn't appear once in the article.

By the way, a lot of the missing content in KotOR 2 has been restored by a mod called "The Sith Lords Restored Content Modification." There's a standalone version if you still have the original discs rattling around, but the easiest way to get it now is to use the Steam Workshop [2]; the game was recently updated (after 10 years!) to add easier mod support, controller support, etc.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/disney-closes-lucasarts-video-game-ar...

[2] http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=485537...

It seems that recycling is a flat rate even if you get two cans. Jumping from the smallest to largest compost can is ~$5. Trash is the really expensive one: http://www.seattle.gov/util/MyServices/Garbage/HouseResident...

There's been a big push around composting lately, to the point where there will be fines for having too many compostables in the trash. People were up in arms over this, as it meant that the waste collection people would be rooting around in your trash to determine if it was complaint, though apparently they can't open opaque bags to check so it's pretty much a non-issue.

Oddly, the LG-made Nexus 4 from 2012 does have Qi support (though it's very finicky)

I liked their example of a restaurant putting them in the bar top. Right now people who want to charge their phones have to decide if you want to plug in a data cable with something unknown on the other end. With wireless charging the attack surface is greatly reduced, if harder to eliminate completely (programming the embedded charge controller vs using a USB condom).

Well, it was weak on purpose. But for the US government's purpose, not the engineer's.

there are far better ways of avoiding it than these anti-patterns.

Could you describe or at least point to some of them?

As someone familiar (and generally quite happy with) reactive programming, what does Erlang/Elixir do that makes it a more general, better solution? And to what types of problems, specifically?

I think the reason that I picked up Rx is that it was a natural extension of LINQ, both literally and figuratively. What made Rx really click for me was thinking of it in terms of IEnumerable that explicitly acknowledged of the time domain. Since then I've come to understand some of the concepts that underlay both of them (monads, mostly), but I wouldn't have made the leap to Rx if it wasn't so easy to get there from existing knowledge. I haven't encountered anything where the next step would be "learn Erlang." You can make the argument that we should all learn about things that are unfamiliar, but there are lot of things that are unfamiliar and I haven't seen a lot of reasons why Erlang should rise to the top.

Why would linking order affect runtime performance? Something to do with the interaction between offsets and cache, maybe?

Would it be possible to determine ahead of time what order would maximize performance, or would that require profiling?

No, it doesn't seem so. I have Silverlight installed but set to click-to-run, and the site will provide suggestions for the sample without running the Silverlight control.

You could try loading the assemblies up in dotPeek and poking around. You miss out on the XAML (though you'll see the code the XAML was transformed into), the compiler generated stuff for await is a little ugly, and obviously you wouldn't be able to re-use any of the code you see, but if you're just curious...

If you prefer Ruby that's cool, but I feel like I should mention that Xamarin is also statically compiled on Apple platforms: http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/ios/advanced_topics/limi...

In fact, every app in the Apple app store is statically compiled. App store guidelines prohibit dynamic code generation, preventing the use of a JIT compiler: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21689993/xamarin-ahead-of...

I prefer ReactiveUI: https://github.com/reactiveui/ReactiveUI (though you can use it together with MvvmCross)

It might be an unfair comparison as MvX is a much older project but it felt more like something cobbled together over time than something really thought out. I also really like the reactive approach - your view model describes the relationships between its properties as they change rather than have a morass of interlinked event handlers.

Paul Betts is pretty active within the portable-C# community, with multiple active projects: https://github.com/paulcbetts and has a pretty good blog, where at the moment he's going back through the RxUI docs: http://log.paulbetts.org/

Replacing "dog" with "cat" does not work... though the resulting interpretation ("photo of Robert S. McNamara") is oddly yellowed.

So that customers who don't want to have to mess with emulators can just buy a game and play it?

That's one of the primary reasons to use GOG - even the ancient games they sell (in my experience) Just Work. They would be far, far less successful if every customer had to become an expert in DOSBOX in order to play an impulse buy of a game from their youth.

You seem to have confused non-ionizing radiation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ionizing_radiation#Health_r...) (the type mentioned in the article) with ionizing radiation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionising_radiation#Biological_e...)

While some sources call into question the health effects of EM radiation, radios aren't causing vomiting and hair loss unless they're also made of radium.

It's now even included in PlayStation Plus subscriptions ($50/year) on the PS3: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/01/13/playstation-plus-b...

Git was released in 2005, so while it's probably not a coincidence it most likely has nothing to do with a keyboard from the 70s.

... 8 years ago.

Affiliate links are explicitly how the site makes money: http://thesweethome.com/how-to-support-the-sweethome/

So I guess I'm not too harsh on them.

I'd also add changes (improvements, in my opinion) in labor and safety laws. I suppose that falls under "[changes in] the relationship between government and business" but I think it's worth calling out specifically.

"Rapid7 strongly recommends disabling UPnP on all external-facing systems," reads a little differently than "disable UPnP now"

Don't expose services to the internet that you're not willing to make public. Duh? What I got from this article is that some devices that people connect to the internet are configured poorly, probably came out of the box like that, and that maybe I should go double check that my router isn't misbehaving. Note that they have lists of vulnerable devices at the end of the paper, which I'll link here.

libupnp: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApUaRDtAei07dFd...

miniupnp: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApUaRDtAei07dDh...

soapapi: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApUaRDtAei07dGx...

The discussion of libupnp is kind of terrifying on its own: "There are no less than seven unique buffer overflows in version 1.3.1 of this code." Which sounds pretty bad until you notice that by "this code" they're referring to a single function.

The paper itself is much better than the Ars article, by the way.

It's under "Adjust ClearType text" on the control panel in Windows 7. It's also known as "ClearType Text Tuner."

It doesn't specifically ask you to pick your subpixel layout, but rather shows you a bunch of different renderings and asks you to pick the one you think looks best.

Ikea sells surprisingly good butcher blocks for $25: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40082918/

I assume they use odds and ends from their furniture manufacturing.

This is a bad time of the year to have 4-5 week lead times before shipping. I can't be the only one hesitating to place an order for an expensive piece of electronics that might sit on my doorstep for a week while I'm elsewhere visiting family.

Sure, but I don't think anyone is worried about maintaining a perfect 9:16 ratio for reading text or what have you. Generally when a device like that starts playing 16:9 content it forces a switch to landscape mode with the content centered and at the top, leaving a 1280x48 swath on the bottom for the home bar and the top 1280x720 for native-resolution 720p content.