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It is indeed interesting, but IIRC most of the funding for satellite launches (R&D for III-V semiconductors) came from intelligence, not NASA.

So, um, thank you, NSA! :P


I thought it was the NRO? http://www.nro.gov/about/


What with their love for predictability, it's no wonder they're strong supporters of the sun.


I would rather dump trillions of dollars into NASA and their tech :D.


Probably: our relatives ate them all! There's basically no corner of our planet, from the hottest volcanic ocean vent to the coldest ice at the poles, to the highest clouds in the air, where our relatives don't live.

Of course, it has taken us about 1/4 the lifetime of the entire universe to get this far, so YMMV. :D


The reason I don't buy that line of reasoning is: The Lions eat the Gazelles, yet there are still Gazelles out there. Also, Gazelles and Zebras share the same land, and one hasn't starved the other of resources. And I don't think that is is just because they came from the same single-celled ancestors that make them able to share the same space. In the same way, I would expect other independent biogenesis lifeforms to still be represented (or new ones popping up periodically).


Iff you were rich and white protestant.

My grandma remembered the Great Depression as a time when life improved.


That's interesting. How did it improve for her?


Oftentimes the reason someone loses their shirt is cuz someone now got two two shirts.


I vividly remember reading that several years ago when it was first put online someplace. o_O


"without the JVM" ... "Once the JVM compiler is up"

Does not compute! :P


Can't quite tell if you're serious or joking. In case it's the former: the ClojureScript compiler is implemented in Clojure, which runs on the JVM. The compiled code is Javascript, which doesn't require the JVM. There have been some discussions about making the compiler hostable from Javascript as well, but it's not possible just yet.


> but the JVM kept me at bay

> ClojureScript compiler is implemented in Clojure, which runs on the JVM


Am I the only one pained that none of the favicon, the "KNOOP" title, the links on the right, or the article's hyperlinks matched #FF4A00, or even eachother, even before I saw it? :D :D


Nice eye. I think over time the color got subtly shifted by a few percentage points here and there. Nonetheless, the color you see today is directly influenced by that early random decision.


No, bugged me too. In fact, nothing on the entire page is actually #FF4A00. The big logo down the bottom is the more muted #ff6122, for example...


A similar thing was done at Iowa State when I was there.


Seems like app.net is worth another look... https://join.app.net/


Why? It's not open source and is vulnerable to the same issues, i.e. a single point of failure should some large entity deem a message undesirable.

It'd be better to take a look at things like status.net, or more low level solutions such as http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/25/anOpenTwitterlikeEco....


We need LINT! (LINT Is Not Twitter) Any other resource recommendations besides the Winer article?


Anyone hated by lots of murderous psycho control-freak business owners is probably doing some good in the world.


Also: get an SSL certificate.


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