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what is the deal with western cultures hating on dragons?
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Comment · 12 years ago
Uncommon as they may be, I imagine getting a divorce is currently a complicated, expensive process, even if the couple are in agreement about terms. Sounds like a good pain point to solve, though I have reservations about trying to automate complex legal, financial and emotional decisions like this.
Comment · 12 years ago
`:;' is not the best string to use to identify shellshock exploit attempts, as the contents of the function are ignored and can change.

Searching for `() {' _should_ (and I'm happy to be corrected here) find most attempts at exploiting, since that's the key sequence that triggers bash's "parse this environment variable as a function" behaviour.

Comment · 12 years ago
Some digging reveals Surrey NanoSystems as the claimed creators.

Their website: http://www.surreynanosystems.com/

Press release for VantaBlack: http://www.surreynanosystems.com/news/19/

Mid-2013 press releases [1][2] talk about using "vertically-aligned carbon nanotube (VANTA) arrays" and cite similar absorption rates as the linked article.

Okay, now I'm interested.

1: http://www.surreynanosystems.com/news/17/

2: http://www.surreynanosystems.com/news/16/

Comment · 12 years ago
> The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face

> Posted: November 22, 2011

> The Woman Behind Apple's First Icons

> Apr 3, 2014

Not sure how a 2011 article can be a copy of a 2014 article.

Edit: especially since the 2014 article links back to this one in the paragraph:

> Within 10 minutes of seeing Xerox’s GUI advancement, Steve Jobs proclaimed that “all computers would work like this someday.” In exchange for a pre-IPO purchase of Apple stock, Xerox allowed Jobs and his engineering team three days’ access to PARC to scope out the Alto and its development tools.

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