jharohit

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by jharohit 11y ago
Its pretty much just theming of various google sites. The subtlty of some it is cool. Like the volume control on the Youtube videos plays the light saber sounds whenever you try to change volume.
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by jharohit 11y ago
well I could only find another listing of these postcards from 3 years ago - don't think that counts as "every couple of months"
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There is a similar themed set of illustrations which are targeted towards Fashion trends in the future http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/fashions-of-the-fu...
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by jharohit 11y ago
Found another link with a few more of these illustrations http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year...
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by jharohit 11y ago
And they have an accompanying chrome extension which loads a Star Wars wallpaper when you open a new tab! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/awaken-the-force-w...
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by jharohit 11y ago
I tried hunting down the source of it - seems like this book called "Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000" is the source material for all these posts and has scans of the original postcards released at the Pari
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19th century art depicting life in the year 2000(hexapolis.com)
1 points by jharohit 11y ago|6 comments
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Google Awakens to the Force(google.com)
9 points by jharohit 11y ago|7 comments
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Stargate in No Man's Sky?
1 points by jharohit 11y ago|0 comments
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by jharohit 11y ago
For the YC fund it will be interesting to know how much of the new influx of funds will be diverted to the YC Research Lab initiative, which I suspect might have a lot of upfront costs (and possibly require continuous future injection as we
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by jharohit 11y ago
Seems like ESA has put its money on MicroPython https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9699798
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by jharohit 11y ago
well it does mention how they had 'political pressures' to move to C++. I believe C++ is great when you are talking about performance, something which is absolutely critical when you are talking about calculating minute adjustment
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by jharohit 11y ago
I have found that the International Space Station Flight Software Guidance, Navigation, and Control uses 'Ada' http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html
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Ask HN: Ideal language for running the systems of an Orion class spaceship?
1 points by jharohit 11y ago|4 comments
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by jharohit 11y ago
tried using on my LG G3. it's "runs" for now. But very slow and laggy at the moment,low res, etc.
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by jharohit 11y ago
Yes absolutely. Agree on Tesla being one of the industry leaders driving the innovation on bringing down battery pack prices BUT my point was what you have re-iterated in your last line - prices are falling on an average industry wide and t
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by jharohit 11y ago
Considering DB was one of the inv. banks involved in the IPO, I would most likely take what they say with a pinch of salt. A little more research into the price difference "claimed" between Tesla and other industry competitors sho
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by jharohit 12y ago
Agreed. Most recent example being talks of them buying Foursquare. I mean c'mon you have some really good tech and guys in your "arsenal". Focus on what you have a.k.a. get you sh*t together! Yahoo Finance was an industry lea
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Why Yahoo Needs to Re-Invent? (Part 1)(medium.com)
3 points by jharohit 12y ago|2 comments
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by jharohit 12y ago
drawback: fair bit of static maps are coming up as oceans/seas - will be fixing that
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Map Guru (Google Maps Based Game)(github.com)
2 points by jharohit 12y ago|1 comments