Hacker News: starwed

New comment by starwed in "This Is the Gyro-Stabilized, Two-Wheeled Future of Transportation"

starwed — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:03:05 +0000

And it's not like it's illegal but folk do it anyway -- I have never, ever seen someone do that in my state.

New comment by starwed in "SLAC results disagree with the Standard Model"

starwed — Sun, 27 May 2012 18:53:42 +0000

To whomever changed the title to eliminate the phrase "new physics": that wasn't in any way sensational or editorial. This is a common phrase within the physics community. From the conclusions part of the paper:

>The results presented here disagree with the SM at the 3.4σ level. Together with the measurements by the Belle Collaboration, and the sizable difference between the measured and predicted branching fraction of B− → τ−ντ [35–39], this could be an indication of new physics processes affecting decays with a τ lepton in the final state.

New comment by starwed in "Mustafa's Space Drive: An Egyptian Student's Quantum Physics Invention"

starwed — Sun, 27 May 2012 02:35:48 +0000

And what is a virtual mirror, I ask?

New comment by starwed in "Yahoo to Launch "Chrome Killer" Tonight"

starwed — Wed, 23 May 2012 23:40:28 +0000

I don't see that Yahoo called it that.

New comment by starwed in "MIT’s Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing"

starwed — Wed, 23 May 2012 09:38:39 +0000

Ok, but why are you replying to me about this?

I was trying to address kondro's obvious confusion about mikeknoop's point, not pass judgement on anyone in the article.

New comment by starwed in "Kleiner Perkins Partner Ellen Pao Sues Firm for Gender Discrimination"

starwed — Wed, 23 May 2012 09:28:54 +0000

At this point you are so deliberately ignoring what the conversation is even about that I think you must be a troll.

Well, I hope you're a troll. The alternative is too depressing. :(

New comment by starwed in "MIT’s Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing"

starwed — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:48:20 +0000

The point of a patent is that you must disclose the method in return for a limited monopoly.

It's to encourage the sharing of techniques!

New comment by starwed in "Kleiner Perkins Partner Ellen Pao Sues Firm for Gender Discrimination"

starwed — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:37:17 +0000

What the fuck have people in this thread been drinking? It could be harassment if they'd had sex a hundred times, or no times, if they'd been married, or if they'd never met before. The sex isn't the issue here! Pause for a second, and think critically about the issue, rather than spewing crap onto the internet.

If you ask someone to stop such a pattern of behavior and they don't, that's harassment regardless of your personal history.

New comment by starwed in "Kleiner Perkins Partner Ellen Pao Sues Firm for Gender Discrimination"

starwed — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:30:00 +0000

To be blunt, you have no idea what you're talking about here.

New comment by starwed in "WebGL: 80,000 particles"

starwed — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:41:47 +0000

That would be a great game to port to the web.

New comment by starwed in "Microsoft opines: Vista was 'cheesy'; drops Aero"

starwed — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:04:21 +0000

> "[We are] flattening surfaces, removing reflections, and scaling back distracting gradients."

That sounds nice. I think the Mac OS is a little bit too shiny as well. And I never liked the fat+rounded style Ubuntu has. I don't use Windows, but if the theming is any good, hopefully other systems will take cues from it.

>"There is no evidence that people want to use [mice]" (John C. Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 1984).

I didn't realise this guy had been making terrible predictions for so long!

New comment by starwed in " Try PTMono, a beautiful monospace font that looks like serif "

starwed — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:14:59 +0000

I think Ubuntu's monospace font has true italic? (I'm not a font expert, though.)

http://font.ubuntu.com/#charset-mono-regular-italic

New comment by starwed in "Say hello to the real real-time Web"

starwed — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:20:09 +0000

The phrase "real-time" means something very different to most people. When you try to "correct" them by invoking a narrow definition only used within a particular domain, it just comes across as pointless pedantry.

New comment by starwed in "If you're seeing ads on Wikipedia, your computer probably has malware"

starwed — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:31:37 +0000

I'd be completely comfortable with calling that malware.

New comment by starwed in "Here’s why the Facebook iOS app is so bad (UIWebViews and no Nitro)"

starwed — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:19:41 +0000

It has to request it on install if it is ever going to use it at all.

New comment by starwed in "The Coming Meltdown In College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Soon"

starwed — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:36:38 +0000

>Doubtful. Not unless they're a STEM or Finance major.

You're just wrong about this. Introductory calc classes are some of the larger classes offered at a lot of universities.

New comment by starwed in "IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA"

starwed — Sat, 12 May 2012 00:41:46 +0000

I had this pop up today, the wording was pretty misleading.

In my case not activating Secure By Visa let me proceed with the transaction normally, but they certainly tried to imply it was necessary.

New comment by starwed in ""Adobe has released Adobe Photoshop CS6, which addresses these vulnerabilities""

starwed — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:30:23 +0000

That's odd, 2.8 was clearly available when I viewed that page. Maybe you just had an old version cached?

They only seem to offer links to 2.8 for Snow Leopard and Lion, so that could also be an issue.

New comment by starwed in "On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data"

starwed — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:53:14 +0000

They've discussed this from the very beginning of the project -- third party hosting.

The goal of diaspora is to make it so that you can run it on your own server, but they assume most folk won't want to do that.

New comment by starwed in ""Adobe has released Adobe Photoshop CS6, which addresses these vulnerabilities""

starwed — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:30:42 +0000

It is extremely meaningful if you, you know, actually consider the context of this thread -- which is not someone telling an artist to use GIMP, but a discussion of "fixing up" the program.