Recent comments

• Posted here by stak at 2007-05-31 19:00:28
  Yeah. According to [url=http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070530-what-lu...
• Posted here by varun at 2007-05-31 13:51:59
  It's been my impression (albeit as something of an outsider to programming in...
• Posted here by stak at 2007-05-21 20:03:28
  [url=http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9721429-7.html]Follow-up[/url]: apparen...
• Posted here by Dave Pritchard at 2007-05-12 23:46:38
  Ah I completely missed the incline part... I now see what you meant. It re...
• Posted here by stak at 2007-05-12 13:06:26
  Nice free-body diagram.. :) Two points: 1. Your free-body diagram assumes ...
• Posted here by Dave Pritchard at 2007-05-11 20:30:26
  I think my point remains valid (assuming it ever was, which I'm pretty sure o...
• Posted here by stak at 2007-05-10 11:29:22
  Maybe part of the problem was that I didn't make the pointy bits long enough ...
• Posted here by Dave Pritchard at 2007-05-09 19:23:26
  I have assumed the thing is rigid (hard), and I'm not exactly sure what it wo...
• Posted here by varun at 2007-05-09 18:23:22
  The confusion seems to be because I think Kats is assuming it's a hard wheel ...
• Posted here by Dave Pritchard at 2007-05-09 17:09:10
  But, [b]why[/b] does it roll forwards more easily? I can't think of any situa...
• Posted here by varun at 2007-05-09 12:13:16
  State of Fear was pretty cool. Next was not. It may have something to do with...
• Posted here by stak at 2007-05-09 12:03:00
  Well, for now anyway. [url=http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1875/125/]...
• Posted here by stak at 2007-05-09 11:59:46
  That's just it - a polygon won't roll forwards any more easily than it rolls ...
• Posted here by Dave Pritchard at 2007-05-09 03:44:04
  What's the difference between this design and a polygon? A polygon won't roll...
• Posted here by rohan at 2007-05-09 00:59:53
  that's funny. it's like a more extreme case of those companies that patent li...
• Posted here by varun at 2007-04-20 10:53:40
  Freakonomics was terrible, but not because of the font and spacing. It was te...
• Posted here by Eric at 2007-04-20 00:08:51
  I concur. When the book started with "I'm not that great at mathematics", I ...
• Posted here by GregT at 2007-04-19 23:59:00
  Freakonomics is great fun for what it is: pop-economics. Probably more eye-op...
• Posted here by stak at 2007-04-19 23:10:20
  Hm.. mine wasn't particularly large font-ed or wide-spaced. Are you sure you ...
• Posted here by rohan at 2007-04-19 20:06:27
  yes freakonomics was pretty bad. you can tell by the large font and spacing b...