<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: AndrewNCarr</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AndrewNCarr</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:08:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=AndrewNCarr" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndrewNCarr in "When That Guy Died on My Show (2007)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you were in school, it is very possible you did watch it live:<p>"With Christa McAuliffe set to be the first teacher in space, NASA had arranged a satellite broadcast of the full mission into television sets in many schools, but the general public did not have access to this unless they were one of the then-few people with satellite dishes. What most people recall as a "live broadcast" was actually the taped replay broadcast soon after the event."
<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/11031097/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nbcnews.com/id/11031097/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:27:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16558399</link><dc:creator>AndrewNCarr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16558399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16558399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndrewNCarr in "Plagiarized news sites are using Cyrillic characters to avoid detection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here is a project that maintains a list of homoglyphs and has some Java and Javascript code for detecting them.<p><a href="https://github.com/codebox/homoglyph" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/codebox/homoglyph</a><p>The list itself in sorted text format, each line a list of similar glyphs:<p><a href="https://github.com/codebox/homoglyph/blob/master/raw_data/chars.txt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/codebox/homoglyph/blob/master/raw_data/ch...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2018 15:20:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16552290</link><dc:creator>AndrewNCarr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16552290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16552290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndrewNCarr in "Reasons the Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava survival story smells fishy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some brief searching ("cooking rice with seawater") indicates that at a minimum you can use seawater diluted with fresh water for cooking if your survival depends on it. Seawater is around 3.5% salt. For perspective, that is something on the order of a soup spoon of salt per soda can volume of water (12fl oz/355mL).<p>Undiluted seawater suitability seems to vary by food[1][2], my cursory search didn't provide any factual specifics for rice, oatmeal, and vegetables. Some comments indicate you can boil fish in straight seawater.<p>That's all without considering pollution and natural toxins from algae blooms. The sources I skimmed mentioned commercially sourced culinary "sea water", I would expect some amount of filtering and heat treatment.<p>[1]<a href="https://www.chowhound.com/post/cooking-seawater-785862" rel="nofollow">https://www.chowhound.com/post/cooking-seawater-785862</a><p>[2]<a href="https://www.quora.com/Could-seawater-be-used-for-cooking-e-g-potatoes-vegetables-rice-etc-or-is-it-too-salty" rel="nofollow">https://www.quora.com/Could-seawater-be-used-for-cooking-e-g...</a><p><a href="https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/51729/can-i-use-ocean-water-to-cook-my-pasta" rel="nofollow">https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/51729/can-i-use-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2017 21:05:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15682628</link><dc:creator>AndrewNCarr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15682628</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15682628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndrewNCarr in "What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack Overflow? (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The next worst is when there are only a handful of search results and the top one is a forum post with replies saying the answer is easily available, and the OP should have used Google first.<p>The remaining results being archives of that first one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2017 15:24:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14342285</link><dc:creator>AndrewNCarr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14342285</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14342285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndrewNCarr in "Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (2008)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Varasano also rejects the "special water" claim. I think the historically poor quality of pizza in rural areas is due to the "trade secret" recipe factors (which Varasano identifies) not being widely shared.<p>I've been to small towns with a "House of Pizza" that made an awful flavorless and bready crust, and the locals loved it because they had no reference for anything better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 15:57:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14292723</link><dc:creator>AndrewNCarr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14292723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14292723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndrewNCarr in "An experienced Javascript developer’s account of learning React"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>className is a small inconvenience when porting over an existing app to react (e.g. pasting in existing html), as is the requirement for style parameters to be objects. className is a quick find replace, but style is a more lengthy transpose process.<p>These are small frictions, but in the same way that every ounce/gram counts to a hiker, minimizing process frictions makes a big difference in productivity during times you already have a high cognitive load.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2017 17:57:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14173721</link><dc:creator>AndrewNCarr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14173721</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14173721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndrewNCarr in "What cats can teach us about how to live"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You basically just described Cat Programming 101.</p>
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<p>Consider Phlebas is one of the few books I have read more than once.  The Culture series is unparalleled.  Surface Detail is probably my pick for #1, as Consider Phlebas isn't really set within the Culture proper, so stands in its own category in a sense.</p>
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<p>Apple could shrink the touchbar enough to have space for the esc key.  They could have also included a single classic USB type A receptacle and kept the magsafe power connector... so who knows.</p>
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<p>Agreed, "mayonnaise man" sounds like an internet legend in the making. To claim it is not beautiful without a link, but give such a fascinating description...</p>
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<p>I would like to find a laptop with a touchpad as good as a 2010 MacBook Pro.<p>I'm not aware of any, and this article seems to confirm it:
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/macbook-touchpad-better-than-windows-10-touchpads-2015-8" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessinsider.com/macbook-touchpad-better-than-...</a></p>
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<p>If you like AvE, check out This Old Tony. He is more machining focused, but he did do a clever multimeter 4/1 video.</p>
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<p>He is referring to traditional chaining of programs through STDOUT and STDIN.  For example, a "program" that counts number of occurrences of foo in a file:
cat file.txt | grep "foo" | wc -w</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:00:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11098960</link><dc:creator>AndrewNCarr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11098960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11098960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndrewNCarr in "What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The missing link between the new Pepsi logo and TimeCube!<p>Saddest thing is I can see a board room eating this up.  Remember when Marissa Mayer redesigned the Yahoo logo with a small team over a weekend? "no straight lines in nature"  she said.  Sounds good, except it is wrong.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:17:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8153547</link><dc:creator>AndrewNCarr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8153547</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8153547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndrewNCarr in "Leading Neuroscientist Says Kurzweil Singularity Prediction A “Bunch Of Hot Air”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That has always been my response to John Searle's Chinese Room [1] thought experiment.  The argument boils down to the human consciousness either being magic or not.  Magic being something beyond physics.<p>1: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:26:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5353809</link><dc:creator>AndrewNCarr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5353809</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5353809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndrewNCarr in "Someone lucky got id Software's original NeXT hardware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="http://www.idsoftware.com/business/history" rel="nofollow">http://www.idsoftware.com/business/history</a><p>"Taking its name from Freud's primal, instinct-driven face of the human psyche, id Software is, by general acknowledgement, the coolest game shop in the world."</p>
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<p>It is "id" software, no caps, no periods.  It is named for this concept: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego</a><p>I used to make similar mistakes years ago, for a long time thinking it was "Eye Dee Software", so I'm posting this to enlighten others, rather than being a grammar commie.<p>Interestingly, there was a game called iD published in 1986: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID_%28video_game%29" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID_%28video_game%29</a></p>
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<p>Reminds me of this: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk</a> (A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work)<p>Not that I disagree, it is just fun to think about possible unintended consequences of dependency on AI for every day tasks.  I am sure there are some short stories that deal with people in an advanced civilization losing their automation, but I can't seem to track any down on Google at the moment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:34:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4960171</link><dc:creator>AndrewNCarr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4960171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4960171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndrewNCarr in "Cargo-culting to success and understanding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My observation of HN is that any link title mentioning cargo cult or skeuomorphism is upvoted into orbit.<p>It is worth reading the wikipedia article on the subject: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult</a><p>I've always thought the idea was linked to the concept of the Outside Context Problem, as a temporary case (the US service personnel eventually left, giving rise to the cult).  Iain Banks purportedly coined this term and uses this as the basis of his novel Excession: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outside_Context_Problem#Outside_Context_Problem" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outside_Context_Problem#Outsid...</a><p>Amusingly, Banks also had a ship named Cargo Cult in another Culture novel (The Player of Games).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948265</link><dc:creator>AndrewNCarr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948265</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndrewNCarr in "40,000 NYU students realize they can 'reply all' to everyone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When the blog post author (Larry Osterman) states that a quarter of 100,000 is 13,000, and that 10% of 13,000 is 130... I start to question if anything the author writes is in any way reflective of what actually occurred.</p>
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