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Almost this exact situation happened to author Ray Bradbury in Los Angeles, where he lived without a car. He wrote several short stories memorializing the incident, including a scene in Fahrenheit 451.

In this case, the digitized font is taken not from the metal types themselves, but from specimens printed on paper. The paper was less uniform and smooth than modern paper, and there was a noticable amount of ink bleed. Since OP is interested in the "character" given to the letterforms by this era of printing technology, it makes sense to suggest some way of simulating this uneven bleed and spread.

man comes from Unix, info comes from Emacs and maybe the OSes it was developed on. The GNU project also comes from that ecosystem, so even their drop-in replacements for the original Unix tools have info pages.

iOS and Android are neck and neck in the US. There was a report about iOS passing Android just days ago, so they have similar market share. I can readily believe that at certain workplaces, almost everyone has an iPhone, but this isn't true generally.

+/- doesn't fail in a language where + is addition modulo n.

Read crntaylor's explanation of this via group theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5278915

So this is awesome insofar as you find things like group theory awesome (I did). But like he says, if you find this awesome to use in production code, that's a horse of another color.

Even the nautilus shell, which this article says follows the golden ratio, doesn't. Proof: m_for_monkey's link: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

"is expected to unveil its new, more colorful logo"

Picture of logo already available in the article.

Limited indeed. Comic Sans was one of the ~11 web-safe typefaces that you could count on pretty much everyone to have. Now that there's a bunch of good-looking embeddable typefaces, people don't face as much temptation to use shitty Comic Sans.

That's not an 'except', grandparent never implied otherwise.

The evaluations are on "how well algorithms submitted by professional data scientists and amateur statistics wizards could predict the scores assigned by human graders." As long as some humans are always included as a control, this shouldn't be too big of a problem.

I see that philosophy and math aren't the only fields where someone's work is more praiseworthy for being less practical!

Surely that's not the best we can hope for—or work for. It is not out of the realm of possibility that distributed social networks, like email or Diaspora, can gain popularity. But I don't know how to make that appealing to average people.

Zawinski's law? http://catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

It's just Zawinski's law in a cycle. “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

Sounds like Stockholm syndrome.

Here's some info about CoreBreach's Linux port being enabled by these changes: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxN...

If GPS failed before 100,000 ft (and it looks like any commercial GPS would), what about the altitude charts on the project's homepage?[0] How were they generated? Can that data-gathering method qualify it for the Carmack challenge?

0: http://ddeville.com/derek/Qu8k.html

Alt-F2 works for me. What's Gnome (now not so) classic? Gnome 3?

I keep hearing that computers are diverging from the kind of architecture C maps to, though. What of that?

Sure, Python is even more popular today, but it showed up frequently in /. "what language should I learn programming with" threads in at least as far back as 2005. I seem to remember much earlier.

Bills Gates never actually said 640k should be enough for anyone. Also, some of the quotes ("I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers") make more sense in context.

I don't know about that. Neither old books I've seen nor TeX do that.

A critical thinker would try to find a sentence that sounds best in the active voice, then try to find one that works best in the passive voice. Succeeding both times, he would then conclude that both are useful.

Specifically, the passive voice allows you to mention the action while omitting the actor. This is sometimes useful, other times harmful.

You have a [1] but forgot to include the footnote.

WTF? In the Mirah examples, I see a bunch of

  i = 0
  while i < 10
    ...code...
    i += 1
  end

There's no for loop? I couldn't confirm because I didn't find a manual.

You're only counting his Unix stuff. He's credited on the chine nual[0], he wrote bit-twiddling hacks, he published an AI paper with Sussman, etc. His WP page mentions a bunch of stuff.

[0]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/two_pi_r/264672507/

Probably not to conserve space, since who needs the extra 30px on most titlebars? It's just that GNOME like to eliminate everything they possibly can, to look minimalist.

RTFA, Google sends a code to your phone.

By hand brakes, you mean rim brakes. Disc brakes are operated by hand, and they work. The only brake I can think of that's not a hand brake is a coaster brake.