Enjoyed playing with blocksim. Have you considered aiming for a different market than matlab/simulink? One thing that simulink cannot do well is dynamic, reconfigurable networks of components (for example, UAVs or autonomous vehicles, but also game sprites). For this purpose, some smart people (not me) at UC Berkeley developed a language called SHIFT and applied it to platoons of automated cars and trucks back in the mid 1990s. I rewrote it as a ruby DSL that generates C code: https://github.com/vjoel/redshift. It would be fun to have something like that in a browser, with animations.

Thanks. It sounds very interesting. From the little I've seen, seems like it could be used to simulate systems in a "smart cities" context. I will detinitely take a closer look.

> A programming news aggregator with better categorization than HN and less noise/navigation effort than the myriad subreddits would be a great tool.

lobste.rs has tags and high signal/noise; but it's very quiet.

Love zim wiki, use it every day, but: it still doesn't detect file change on disk. So after (1) edit on host A, (2) sync with git (or rsync or btsync...), (3) go to already open edit window on host B, you can end up editing a stale buffer, and then you have to merge manually.

Still better than the alternatives.

What about a bonus for up-voting a story that eventually receives a high score? Or is that what you meant?

This is how I interpreted it.

Yup. Utilite: http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-specifications. Dual GbE, though one is limited to around 470Mbps because of a limitation of the board.

I have one. Great specs, but I am not totally happy with the ubuntu 12.04 that comes with it. GCC is broken, for one thing: http://www.utilite-computer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=1.... Hoping this gets fixed soon.

Where's Datomic? Maybe it's excluded because it relies on other databases as storage services?

Took me a long time to notice that my cursor movements were injecting disturbances into the fluid. What physical laws govern these points, and how is the cursor perturbing them?

Also, why is there a bias towards clockwise orbits in the first few seconds? Is there some asymmetry in the physics?

Citation needed. The Rolling Stones started in '62. Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" is from '65.

Wikipedia attribute the band's name to the Muddy Waters song, "Rollin' Stone".

I didn't say Dylan's version of the song was original, just that the Rolling Stones are named after it.

>> The Rolling Stones (which named themselves after this song)

> Citation needed.

Sure. Here are two, from the wikipedia article you just read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones#CITEREFNelso...

- Jagger, Mick; Richards, Keith; Watts, Charlie; Wood, Ronnie (2003). According to the Rolling Stones. San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books. ISBN 9780811840606. p42

- Nelson, Murray N. (2010). The Rolling Stones: A Musical Biography. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood. ISBN 9780313380341. p3.

Like A Rolling Stone is most definitely an original Bob Dylan song. Dylan may have been inspired by Muddy Waters at best.

Fascinating. Is it possible to reduce the cpu utilization when idle?

Probably a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivac.