theboos
Re:Log2 ( (distance to moon) / (thickness of paper) )
on Monday April 04, 2011 @03:57PM (#2408246)
... requiring about 4 trillion sheets:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+to+moon%2Fthic...
... or 2.586 trillion square feet of paper:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+to+moon%2Fthic...
... with a minimum price of $16 billion dollars, not including shipping and handling into space: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2+dollars+per+ream+*+1+..., http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/382045718/bulk_paper.html
Re:My Weekend Project: Moral Support - Your Own Personal Help Hotline
on Sunday March 06, 2011 @11:05PM (#2295941)
It's telling me something.
Re:The Game (mind game)
on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @10:32PM (#1814042)
Needless to say, I lost. But is this really even HN-worthy?
Re:Splendid Bacon: Simple Project Management for Hackers, built in 48 ...
on Sunday October 17, 2010 @10:37PM (#1802142)
"And it uses dark colors."
Much prefer white on black to vice versa. Great design and very usable!
Re:ZenDroid by Enso
on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @05:22PM (#1555728)
Enso has spent the last few months continually claiming to be shipping their products despite a disheartening lack of actual customers claiming to have received their preordered products. Their products are precariously balanced between scam and vaporware status. A quick search for "enso zenpad scam" and "zenpad review" will show what I mean.
Re:Ask HN: What to do with this meme?
on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @10:46AM (#1514697)
My results were actually consistent. I pasted in parts of an unfinished novel four paragraphs at a time and I got Dan Brown each time.
Re:Tell HN: My 3D terrain in Flash just went online
on Friday July 09, 2010 @10:43AM (#1500752)
I really like the control scheme: vertical drag to move, horizontal drag to change view heading. It was a bit confusing for the first few seconds but it feels much more intuitive than Google Earth, for example.
Re:Random Numbers
on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @12:30PM (#1414398)
Avast Personal also detects a bunch of javascript trojans.
Re:MIT Free Courses
on Monday June 07, 2010 @02:16PM (#1411266)
I really enjoyed the EECS courses available there.
Re:Latexlab: web based LaTeX editor
on Thursday May 06, 2010 @09:35PM (#1326408)
Good idea! The preview pane only worked the second time I compiled though. Exporting to pdf gave me a broken link however.
Re:You Should Waste 50% of Your Time
on Sunday January 03, 2010 @12:02PM (#1028679)
broken link?
Re:Ask HN: Review my idea (CCDB)
on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @09:30PM (#1000277)
Wow. I didn't see that. That is almost exactly what I want. It doesn't seem to do computer components specifically but it could definitely be adapted into one or have the capability added later.
Re:Ask HN: Review my idea (CCDB)
on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @09:29PM (#1000274)
As a hobby and a valuable tool for my "business" of custom builds. A Newegg partnership/acquisition/sponsorship would be nice though.
Ask HN: Review my idea (CCDB)
CCDB: Computer (or crowdsourced) Component DataBaseThe CCDB is a crowdsourced database of computer components, their specifications, reviews, and average price across retailers. Newegg, my favorite electronics/components retailer does not provide a good interface for searching for parts. Even their "Power Search" tool does not let me perform complex searches, such as this, which would have been...