dcminter

Well put.

I too bought one as a gift for a friend and mentioned in the comment form how much I'd enjoyed The Cuckoo's Egg. The reply was effusive, and the overall "purchase experience" still…

Last time I encountered this issue (in LA) the attendant correctly advised me that 00000 would work instead. Worth a shot next time!

This is not super-relevant to the article, but I thought I would mention: It often strikes me that the opening line of Neuromancer, which is something like "The sky was the color of a TV tuned to…

A colleague at work tested two batteries by bouncing them in front of me. Had he merely told me about the bounce effect I would have been extremely skeptical, so I'm glad he didn't give me t…

The contrasting pictures of the garage and the 'bigger space' are delightful!

I found Scribus to be virtually unusable last time I tried it (early this year on Ubuntu and version 1.4.6 I think); it compared very badly to Microsoft Publisher in the pre-2000 era. It wasn't v…

In fairness I have this issue with a number of human intelligence based (allegedly) recruiters.

Answering my own question: apparently not per section E.

I was under the impression that bremsstrahlung losses were the main barrier to breakeven in fusor-like devices. Is this not susceptible to that?

As it's not obvious from the title: the article is by Randall Munroe of XKCD fame.

At university (a long time ago) on my first excursion with the Modula II compiler on the Vax, I accidentally inserted a # as the first character in a long source file. The compiler dutifully reported …

This - plus sometimes "clever" is not trying to be too clever. I take my hat off to the author both for their ingenuity and for correctly identifying it as HN-worthy despite (because of) its…

For those interested in the subject I can recommend the very readable "A Quarter Century of Unix" by Peter Salus.

For a similar approach during the 'golden age' of polar exploration, read the fascinating "Farthest North" by Fritjof Nansen. My review of it including Gutenberg links for their fr…

LSHTM is a medical research university (with an archaic name), so this is probably the right affiliation to cite but being general news content on the BBC I agree that they should have qualified that …

Although your point is perfectly valid, I don't think the tool is intended for anything other than fun.

By the by it's often worth skimming through the comment threads on those articles for entertaining posts by chemists reminiscing about their own near-misses!

Oh, absolutely - but I think Derek's point in the article is that many critics of "Big Bad Pharma" who see the profitable drugs making it to market are unaware of the expensive failures…

I realise this article's getting a bit long in the tooth, but I thought it was well written and it was an interesting read for me as a Java developer who barely dabbles in Rust. Does anyone have …