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1. 1891.▲
   Solar Challenger (1980)(wikipedia.org)

   1 points by hyperpallium 12y ago|0 comments
2. 1892.▲
   by hyperpallium 12y ago

   converting to OP units: 1 hp is about .75 kW, so 3 hp is 2.25 kW, compared with the 231 kW used by the engine. 1/100. But apart from drones, perhaps a specifically designed aircraft to target this could help: lighter, smaller, larger s
3. 1893.▲
   by hyperpallium 12y ago

   IIRC it's a similar latency figure for VR headtracking (15ms), and also for touch screens (10ms).
4. 1894.▲
   by hyperpallium 12y ago

   Bit of a tangent, but I think most closed source products are pretty easy to copy. What can't be copied is the headstart. If they keep on advancing, they'll retain it. And if customers want those advances - not overshooting - th
5. 1895.▲
   by hyperpallium 12y ago

   Yeah, it has to be "OTG" (on the go), aka "usb host". Seems relatively uncommon. Beats a line printer! Can relate - I'm ecstatic that (70s era) unix utilities are blazing instant on a phone. I'm sure vim would
6. 1896.▲
   by hyperpallium 12y ago

   (I don't know but...) I like the idea of an e-ink terminal, however I fear the slow refresh rate would make editing difficult. I guess someone somewhere has tried it though... The specs of that particular one show no bluetooth (and no
7. 1897.▲
   by hyperpallium 12y ago

   Mainstream stuff isn't necessarily the best, but it's "good enough". The big benefit isn't the product itself, but a market effect: multiple third-party add-ons and service will be available. Bugs and gaps will have
8. 1898.▲
   by hyperpallium 12y ago

   Tidal friction from the moon (and to a lesser extent from the sun) would also have contributed.
9. 1899.▲
   by hyperpallium 12y ago

   Thanks!
10. 1900.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    Thanks! Renames make archeology difficult in git. I've become reluctant to change {file,directory} names, even when it's clearer... BTW: What are the benefits of versioning changesets themselves? Isn't it rare to only change
11. 1901.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    Wouldn't the standard open source-as-freemium work? i.e. a free open source version with enough cool features (e.g. nested respositories), but not efficient. It's free marketing to keep you on the radar, that targets the people wh
12. 1902.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    What I like about my favourite fiction (Douglas Adams, Larry Niven, Vernor Vinge) isn't the plot or characters but the insightful little observational asides and their apt expression. That paragraph, though short, has an awful lot of i
13. 1903.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    They were inspired by http://www.stupidhackathon.com/ If you can't wait for the results, have a look at that one.
14. 1904.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    Theatre Sports (competitive collaborative dramatic improvisation) has the concepts of offer , accept , and block . Accepting an offer means to build on it in some way, as a real part of the scene - in the way you mean. A block is w
15. 1905.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    To my eye, HN has rendered them identically. You can preserve literal whitespace on HN by indenting by two spaces (and a newline to separate the code formatting from ordinary text). it appears like this
16. 1906.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    That wiki's definition is simpler than I'd thought possible. But a "new market" includes a new group of people (doing the same old thing), and the same people doing the same thing in a new way (e.g. people with landline
17. 1907.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    The Haier 11.6"'s SoC seems pretty cool for a phone . Then again, phones are ridiculously overpowered these days. It supports 4K. http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockchip_RK3288
18. 1908.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    I agree Christensen often seems a bit post hoc , but I think at least trying to see if there's a new market can help (as opposed to attacking the fortified hill of an established market). One could argue the Nomad's market was mu
19. 1909.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    I think MS's reaction will be interesting. When linux netbooks came out, they aggressively discounted Windows for them, fending off the linux threat from below. MS/intel already have some incredibly cheap tablets (and Windows 8.1
20. 1910.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    The article's mention of carrier-subsidized iPhone price of $199 made me see something obvious: what if the Apple Watch was also subsidized? Since it's likely to increase network usage, it seems a reasonable bet for carriers. Mayb
21. 1911.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    Clever, he'd likely be skipping many 5's towards the end, but still compresses. Another scheme: chop it up into files of increasing length, the difference being 1..256, encoding a byte (ignore the last difference). EDIT more effic
22. 1912.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    The file ordering contains information (done with filenames, comp.$i , but could use other file metadata). Mike can escape his unthinking agreement to multiple files by the rules forbidding information in filenames.
23. 1913.▲
    JS 1K 2015 – entries close March 14(js1k.com)

    2 points by hyperpallium 12y ago|0 comments
24. 1914.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    400x400 for a circle? Looks like they're clipping the corners, so not actually 400x400 resolution.
25. 1915.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    They made something easier, in a growing market. Their big break was DOS. Getting offered to do an OS for the PC was luck, but they scrappily exploited it to the hilt: they didn't even have an OS; their license terms allowed them to
26. 1916.▲
    by hyperpallium 12y ago

    But weren't they the first to sell software for personal computers? (of course, DOS was their big break)