ⓞnor

This puzzle was amazing! - Larry Hosken

wow, so this is the sort of lolcat that amuses ⓞnor - j1m

all lolcats amuse ⓞnor! - ⓞnor

lol - j1m

kitteh is the only one *not* amused. - Franc, a rememberer

fml:mlia :: ichc:averagecats. - ⓞnor

Like 60+% of USA households, I do not have a cat. My lack of cat is average. Or median-ical. Or something. - Larry Hosken

not a cat or dog person yes I said it..........I do love my birds though - VALZONE#SCREWED

You really otter look at these! - Jim Norris

Can't... stand... such cuteness... My eyes are saturating! - Iván Rivera

So Cute! - Kong Yee Peng KMN

cut kids - Xitong Liu

"The Cavern of Doom is resolutely single-threaded, with a spine of near-universally travelled choices seen in the thick arcs moving left to right. Notably there is only a single choice (both in this view and in the entire book) that goes back to an earlier page. This can be seen in the lone arc below the pages moving from right to left. It is either ironic or telling that this linear structure comes from the book written by a talented computer programmer. Perhaps knowing how to deal with the complicated makes you appreciate the simple." - ⓞnor

(googled) Ah, it's actually the Grailquest series. The player character was called Pip. - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

oh, dang, I should have posted from here #robsc - Rob Schonberger

Someone was saying that hashtags aren't recognized by Twitter when they're in FF comments, only FF posts. #lairofevil #robsc - Daniel Dulitz

"…a keyboard controlled (modal vim-like bindings, or with modifier keys) browser based on Webkit. very minimal interface. No unnecessary interface elements. controllable through a FIFO and with external scripts. what is not browsing, is not in uzbl. Things like url changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history,.. are handled through external scripts that you write" - ⓞnor

"...we could do without gtk. But Webkit needs a widget toolkit to create widgets (think javascript popups, html forms etc)" If they really wanted to go all the way, shouldn't each <form> element just turn into a named pipe? - Laurence Gonsalves

"Contrast the experience of being a middle manager. This is a stock figure of ridicule, but the sociologist Robert Jackall spent years inhabiting the world of corporate managers, conducting interviews, and he poignantly describes the “moral maze” they feel trapped in. Like the mechanic, the manager faces the possibility of disaster at any time. But in his case these disasters feel arbitrary; they are typically a result of corporate restructurings, not of physics. A manager has to make many decisions for which he is accountable. Unlike an entrepreneur with his own business, however, his decisions can be reversed at any time by someone higher up the food chain (and there is always someone higher up the food chain). It’s important for your career that these reversals not look like defeats, and more generally you have to spend a lot of time managing what others think of you. Survival depends on a crucial insight: you can’t back down from an argument that you initially made in straightforward language, with moral conviction, without seeming to lose your integrity. So managers learn the art of provisional thinking and feeling, expressed in corporate doublespeak, and cultivate a lack of commitment to their own actions. Nothing is set in concrete the way it is when you are, for example, pouring concrete." - ⓞnor

In other words, managers become politicians. :) - Ray Cromwell

Not every decision really needs moral conviction behind it, even in an ideal, no-office-politics world. - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

"A calling card with working planetary gears. Astound your friends, frustrate your nemisii." - ⓞnor

Do you have nemesii? - Daniel Dulitz

The same dude, who appears to be obsessed with planetary gears in unlikely places, made probably the nerdiest Mother's Day gift ever: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5.... (I'm not sure if I have even a single nemesis, much less plural nemesii, but I'm open to applicants.) - ⓞnor

Wouldn't nemesii be the plural of nemesius? I'm pretty sure the plural of nemesis is nemeses. - Gabe

"Optional Frostruder Kit expands your Maker Bot to extrude frosting in any shape you imagine. Automated cupcake frosting? Yeah, we got that." - ⓞnor

Please don't? [Sorry, I'll give you some slack]. - coldbrew

cool, was going to say, "that reminds me of reprap", but then came across http://blog.reprap.org/2009.... it seems makerbot is kinda like the redhat of reprap - Karl Rosaen

That's a good way to put it. I hope they're equally successful. There are a few interesting models posted on thingiverse -- parametrized lego bricks (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5...), a camera of sorts (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5...), a board game proof of concept (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5...)... - ⓞnor

Hey, the symbol from "Threshold"! I drifted away from that show by midseason. - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

From the same supplier: http://www.amazon.com/Images-... - ⓞnor

I will hold out for a radio link to KITT. (and yes, I know about the KITT-voiced GPS.) - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

The customer reviews are funny though. - Morton Fox

Have you already got a flux capacitor? - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

http://www.theonion.com/content... - Ana

"Ok for cleaning teeth, not so great for killing ants" - Lolz! - Ken Morley

It kinda sounds like a faster interpreter would be an easier/better approach than a good, optimized compiler... - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

Yeah, they discuss a number of runtime models in the forum thread where Catalina was announced: http://forums.parallax.com/forums.... At one point the Catalina author says: "I did indeed look at using LCC to generate bytecodes and then write a bytecode interpreter for the propeller - but I wasn't sure I could fit everything into a single cog (which was one of my design goals). Also, I really wanted "native" floating point support (another of my design goals) which reduces the space available even further. Also keep in mind that there is already a darn good bytecode interpreter available for the propeller - the built-in SPIN interpreter - and it would be relatively simple to have LCC generate the same bytecodes as SPIN (but again this would lack floating point!). I finally decided that if I was going to implement a bytecode interpreter I would implement one for Java, not C (codenamed project 'Jupiter'). But the real reason is that I just think the LMM is way cool and I wanted to play with it." - ⓞnor

gave me flashbacks from writing i/o controller assembly in college (also for a flying vehicle). - David Vasileff

lolhedgehogs are always the best - ⓞnor

Love the expression on its face :) - Hasitha

"Nutrimatic is a pattern-matching word-search tool designed for puzzle solving and construction, based on a dictionary of words and phrases that commonly occur in Wikipedia, using a regular expression based pattern syntax." - ⓞnor

Great name! - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

"See those two screws at the bottom of the picture? If you connect those screws to a switch of some kind, and plug the whole thing into the USB port of a computer, the switch will act as a one-key keyboard. This one happens to be an Enter key." - ⓞnor

The impressive part about those devices seems to be the reprogramming of the device ROM via USB directly from this web page http://shinydevices.com/setting... (check the source) - Thomas Amberg

"What we're trying to do is search a space of game rules for rule sets that constitute fun games. This immediately raises two questions: how do you define and search a space of game rules, and how can you measure whether a game is fun?" (via joshua) - ⓞnor

I wonder if the second question couldn't be more fruitfully answered by quantifying the amount of chaos the rules allow, like what Wolfram did for CAs. - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

On the other hand, an automated system for tuning rules would certainly be very interesting. I suspect it might need to be built with a lot of special purpose stuff - response times/delays like what people have, intuitive senses of what inertia and gravity do, and so forth, depending on the complexity of the space of rules. - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

"Each cell ends with a tab character. A column block is a run of uninterrupted vertically adjacent cells. A column block is as wide as the widest piece of text in the cells it contains or a minimum width (plus padding). Text outside column blocks is ignored." The page includes a Java applet demo of a simple editor which uses this concept. This actually looks pretty sweet. - ⓞnor

@Jonas: Agreed. - Ihab Awad

"The basic idea - from Buro Vormkrijgers - is genius: each minute the right side scores a point, and each hour the left side scores a point. The effect is that the score is the time." - ⓞnor

want - j1m

A dude at work is trying to build his own version. He thinks he can do it smaller and lighter, mostly because the parts have gotten better. - ⓞnor

"The AN/FPQ-6 is a Missile Precision Instrumentation Radar (MIPIR) class monopulse tracking radar used to provide position data on aircraft, missiles, space boosters, and orbiting bodies. The site can track in either skin mode or in conjunction with vehicle-borne transponders. The radar's large antenna and high power coherent transmitter make the site's data quality very high." - ⓞnor

I wonder if virtualglobetrotting's data is available for tools like wikitude to use. They seem to have a lot of touristy landmarks and curiosity objects, which is what you'd want for something like that. - ⓞnor

(just for the picture) - ⓞnor

Direct link to img: http://i163.photobucket.com/albums... - Michael Leggett

Are you pulling a D.B. Cooper out of Torque's airplane? - Larry Hosken

Here: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Paul Buchheit

Yeah, sadly we couldn't find a vantage point on the actual quarry. And I wasn't about to go to Long Beach to continue the Torque Re-creation Tour... - ⓞnor