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by frankus 15y ago
I hadn't thought of that. I've only recently gotten a 3G-capable iPad, and I did manage to rack up 121MB in a few hours of browsing.
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by frankus 15y ago
My pet peeve is deep links that get redirected to the mobile home page. That and sites that open in "mobile mode" on a tablet. 10x7 should be plenty of pixels for your normal site.
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by frankus 15y ago
"Not sure what happens if you don't have the app installed - does it ask you to download the app instead?" FWIW Apple handles this by preinstalling and not allowing you to remove the YouTube app. For other use cases there are a couple of ad
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by frankus 15y ago
The whole Address Book framework on iOS seems to have gotten the shit end of the doody stick when they were handing out skilled programmer-hours at Apple. For example it's inexplicably implemented as a bunch of low-level Core Foundation cal
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by frankus 15y ago
It's definitely fun to use, but since it's gotten such glowing press, I'll be a negative nancy and point out the flaws :). The biggest one is that it's hard or impossible to do a few important things with the same hand that's holding the ph
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by frankus 15y ago
Good point. Most homes around here are wired with 200A, 240V power, so a 20kW charger would eat up about half of that. So a 7.2kW charger is about 2500 times slower than a fast gas pump. Even slow gas pump (say 10MW), used with a convention
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by frankus 15y ago
Petroleum is really frickin' energy-dense (leaving aside the fact that unless you're heating something only a small fraction can be turned into useful work). A mid-range home EV charger peaks out at about 20kW. By contrast, the energy flux
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by frankus 15y ago
With a few caveats, I agree: I believe that drunk drivers should not (in the typical case) lose their driving privileges when convicted of driving while intoxicated. After all, they're not bad drivers (when sober), they're bad drinkers. Tha
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by frankus 15y ago
What you've just described is known in the planning field as suburban sprawl, and is not without traffic problems of its own. If you start with an assumption of auto-dependence, then your conclusion follows, but the article is really arguin
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by frankus 15y ago
It's been proposed that municipalities that want to increase density in a particular district convert their property taxes to land taxes in a revenue-neutral way. That makes it much more painful to leave real-estate in a less-than-maximally
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Are iBooks the New Apps?(franking.tumblr.com)
1 points by frankus 15y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 15y ago
That's good to hear. I remember starting to go through the signup process about a year and a half ago and by the third screen they wanted to know the contact information for my legal counsel. I may have to revisit my project in light of you
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by frankus 15y ago
I highly doubt that Bluetooth 4.0 is going to remove the biggest obstacle to these sorts of applications on the iPhone, which is Apple's review process. Right now if your Bluetooth device corresponds to one of the handful of profiles with b
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by frankus 15y ago
So what is the functional difference between a shared-ownership, driverless car, and a standard human-driven taxi? Don't underestimate the price difference. It's one of those things where a large enough quantitative difference becomes a q
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by frankus 15y ago
You're right, instead of "would" I should've said "might". I was taking the parent's assumption as a given for argument's sake.
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by frankus 15y ago
When I was young and naive I used to dream about how a Personal Rapid Transit system that would whisk people around in private little pods along elevated monorail tracks could work. Clearly the answer is "it couldn't", not so much technica
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by frankus 15y ago
I think you're spot on. But I think the removable trunk will be combined with a passenger-less unit that carries the trunk back to your house and drops it off. Sort of a tiny version of container shipping.
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by frankus 15y ago
I want one and I have money - when they're available, why wouldn't I be able to buy one? I think you would, but the conventional wisdom around owning your own car would along the lines of the current CW surrounding owning your own aircraf
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by frankus 15y ago
If cars are getting 20 times more use they will wear out much more quickly than they do now. Existing cars, if driven 20 times as much, would wear out 20 times more quickly, like taxicabs do now. But it's also possible that cars would sim
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by frankus 15y ago
On the West Coast nearly all residential buildings have a wood frame with plywood on the outside and drywall (gypsum sandwiched between two layers of paper) on the inside. The decorative/weatherproof finish outside of the plywood is increas
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by frankus 15y ago
Love how the page reloads halfway through the video (no doubt in a lame attempt to get more ad impressions), and how I then get to sit through another 30 second ad before watching a two -minute news clip.
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by frankus 15y ago
Note: voted twice for two different exits. Fortunately for the poll they had different outcomes :)
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by frankus 15y ago
I'm not much of an entrepreneur, but I'm planning to move just across the border to Vancouver so I can live with the Canadian I've been dating for eight and a half years (it's not totally impossible for us to live together down here but it'
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by frankus 15y ago
Obscure Objective-C aside that you should never actually take advantage of: You don't actually need anything between colons in a method signature. for instance, you could write: doStuff:arg1 :arg2 :arg3 The method signature would be somethi
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by frankus 15y ago
I actually find the built-in Xcode documentation (⌘⌥?) reasonably snappy (and I'm on a pretty slow Core i3 box whose only redeeming feature is 16GB of RAM). I would definitely choose Google (or your app -- it's pretty slick) over the curren
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by frankus 15y ago
The had me until that sentence. Actually increased hemoglobin levels in smokers wouldn't be surprising. The problem is that all of the increase (and then some, most likely) is bound to carbon monoxide and effectively inert.
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In Microsoft's Shadow, Seattle's Tech Scene Surges(reuters.com)
65 points by frankus 15y ago|31 comments
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Tell HN: Free to Good Home: YakRazor.com
1 points by frankus 15y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 15y ago
Reminds me of a quote from the always incisive Karl Pilkington (to keep this family friendly, google "asimo karl pilkington").
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by frankus 15y ago
(Not sure if this is a troll or not, but I'll bite) "Is the app store really going to debug apps for everyone?" No, but obvious problems will be detected, and sandboxing will significantly control the damage a poorly-debugged app can do. "H

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