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by jaakl 9y ago
Heat pump takes energy from two sources, power grid and outside environment: air, landmass or water (there are even air+land models etc). Their energy output is always less than sum of sources, so their efficency is never over 100%. But as
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by jaakl 9y ago
To make your experiment more interesting you could theoretically (to avoid torture) overpaint real living turtle. Who would be more wrong then? But this work gives bunch of hope for fooling future security check machines - these will see yo
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by jaakl 9y ago
It is Not US App in the Not US world
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by jaakl 10y ago
me too, but just use the developer console to see the same (horrifying) results as shown in the gif.
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by jaakl 10y ago
Can you be more specific? I live few kilometers from EU outer border with a hostile country, but have never seen or heard of such paneuropen guards. AFAIK paneuropean is only a law which requires every country to guard all their borders, an
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by jaakl 10y ago
I connected all the office coffee machines using a hot water tube, use just one to heat the water and distribute this to the others. Now I reduced energy consumption of almost all coffee machines 10,000 times, also I removed their water he
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by jaakl 10y ago
Yes, at surface it looks like re-inventing the web/html, but to use HTML for defining app you would need to add all the native elements as HTML tags to the vocabulary and that would be a lot. HTML was made to make hypertext with things
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by jaakl 10y ago
I know a startupper who struggled for almost 10 years, then started meditation and yoga practises and then in less than 1 year the startup growed significantly and eventually got sold successfully. That was me. Was it a coincidence ?
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by jaakl 10y ago
Time machine to 1999 with my first smartphone Ericsson R380. Then to first iPhone. All had browser only apps with the story like this. All not good enough for really useful things. Yes, for web browsing browser is good enough, but not for m
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by jaakl 10y ago
Every time you write an 'if' and do not stop for a moment to consider it, a kitten dies.
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by jaakl 10y ago
This problem could be resolved within coordinate systems adaptations. I don't know if WGS84, the datum used in GPS, does it, but for example European official datum is ETRS89 which is very similar to WGS84, but adjusts coordinates to t
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by jaakl 10y ago
Maps.me is owned by mail.ru, so guess who will have your location data from it.
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by jaakl 11y ago
For me the point would be to make reading main point of the text faster and more precise. Why not render based on meaning of the words, e.g. "love" and "sex" should be red, strong words in bold, weak in gray, "emoti
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by jaakl 11y ago
No, this is in their apps only. There are 3rd party map APIs which have offline capability: Nutiteq and Telenav for example
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by jaakl 11y ago
The HERE needs definitely backup. I have country maps downloaded there for travel, and phone is always offline, but often I see white map for the downloaded area. Initially it is always white. Sometimes it helps if you get online for a mome
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by jaakl 11y ago
Linux vs Windows result was that the whole question become pointless, desktop computing was replaced by cloud and mobiles. This will be eventually also fate of FaceBook - we might see no direct FB killer, but something completely different
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by jaakl 12y ago
TL;DR: is for more demanding app requirements. For end-user apps: offline maps support. Google Maps has it as app (and not everywhere), we provide SDK where it works globally. For more demanding needs you can add 3D objects to map, use it f
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by jaakl 12y ago
Sure, I'm daily OpenStreetMapper myself. The other map options can be added in project basis, as the geodata from any other sources tends to be extremely expensive for average end-user app developers. Of course it has to be attributed
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by jaakl 12y ago
Well, the start pages states "Vector maps from OpenStreetMap" 3 times. Technically it is up to app developer to add proper attribution, as our SDK can be used with other sources also. OSM is provided just for convenience. But poin
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by jaakl 12y ago
This has been asked quite a lot, but HTML5/WebGL approach would require another complete rewrite. One of our key advantages: showing maps without network would not really work there, but this could be resolved with a storage-enabled w
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by jaakl 12y ago
Android since API 9 (2.3) and iOS 7. Would you need more? iOS 6 can be added quite easily.
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Nutiteq offline maps SDK for iOS and Android(developer.nutiteq.com)
36 points by jaakl 12y ago|13 comments
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by jaakl 12y ago
From the personal experience (I was born in USSR in mid-70ies and have lived there since) 50% of the GDP should have been military expenses, including space program. Everyday life was more like to the poorest Latin America or African countr
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by jaakl 12y ago
When I will see "UK to ban manual driving on public roads"?
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by jaakl 13y ago
This site seems to be down for last weeks. Is there any other daily HN email service?
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Daily HN down?(dailyhn.com)
1 points by jaakl 13y ago|1 comments
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by jaakl 13y ago
The problem happens also with HN own search, tried to get comments for first entry of https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=openstreetmap
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by jaakl 13y ago
There are not that many countries/capitals where I've not been in Europe, so I think I can compare instead of pushing my hometown: My personal top of metropolis: 1. Berlin - great startup stuff, cheap (in context of west Europe&#x
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by jaakl 13y ago
Could you do nightly SCP backup of my entire user database to my own server?
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by jaakl 13y ago
This title is here more than 50% wrong. Microsoft bought Devices and Services business, and large portion of patents. This is about 50% of Nokia revenues, less than 50% of employees, and about 0% of the profits.

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