McKayDavis

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by McKayDavis 12y ago
> I'm wondering if they are partnering with XMission. Very unlikely, as Pete Ashdown (founder/owner) was recently discussing XMission investigating rolling their own fiber until wind of Google Fiber came up: http://
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
There are various factors including the unpredictable nature of the flow as well as the cost and sheer effort involved. But, also very prominently is the cultural sensitivity to not disrupt the will of the volcano goddess Pele. http:/
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
In the US, Congress passed the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act in 2010 and the FCC began enforcement in 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudn...
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
Not directly related to the article, but this is a good opportunity to alert US HN readers that in a little more than two years time a total solar eclipse will cut across the entire conterminous United States on August 21st, 2017. Major cit
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
Are you familiar with the IEEE 754-2008 specification of decimal floating point format? From Wikipedia's entry on decimal64[1]: "It is intended for applications where it is necessary to emulate decimal rounding exactly, such as fi
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
Link to the paper [1] (with microscopy images) in the Journal of Applied Physics leads the 3rd paragraph of the article. [1] http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/117/3/10.10...
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
The third oldest living organism ever documented was a Bristlecone Pine dubbed "Prometheus" in Great Basin National Park (the same park as the story). It was at least 4862 years old before being cut down for study! [1] http:&#x2F
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
Can you elaborate a bit more on what you found bloated about Atom-Shell over Node-Webkit? I've been going down the AS route as I too found Node-Webkit was stale and AS was very active. I may switch to NW.JS if the reasons are compellin
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
Hmm... didn't work then started working for me. It appears re:splashed is just sourcing (i.e. hotlinking) from unsplash [1] anyways. Reusing the images is fine under CC0, but I'm not sure if unsplash cares if re:splashed is hotl
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
I hate to one-up -- but I stumbled (via startuptabs) across re:splashed [1] yesterday. It's a site with 563 free high res stock images, also with the same (CC0 1.0) license. [1] http://www.resplashed.com
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
The biggest advantage I see is HTML imports [1] finally providing a common bundling mechanism for HTML/CSS/JS. Custom elements can also finally get devs out of <div> hell. [1] http://www.html5rocks.com/en&#x
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
This and Web Components [1] in general are high on my list of technologies to learn. [1] http://webcomponents.org/
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
No doubt influenced by the MIT Bitcoin Project [1] that gave $100 in BTC to every MIT undergrad this fall. [1] http://mitbitcoinproject.org/
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
I was going to comment that this sounds like an opportunity to get mileage out of the huge amount of typeinfo already provided by DefinitelyTyped by building a tool to convert .d.ts into .d.flow files. After investigating this thought, it
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
> "But Wilson says the population has steadily grown, and he estimates between 30 and 50 wallabies live on Lambay today." There's also a small population of Brush Tailed Rock Wallabies living in Kalihi valley on the island
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
Thank you for pointing this out! For those wanting to avoid upgrading to a new boot2docker release you can patch the vulnerability with the following command from the boot2docker shell: sudo sed -i "s/DOCKER_TLS:=''&
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by McKayDavis 12y ago
And at the other end of the spectrum: the state of Hawaii has told UberX and Lyft to stop all airport service until they obtain permits and pay fees. http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/08/state-to-uberx-and-lyft-no-...