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by keville 10y ago
I fear that as devices shrink there's simply not enough room inside many of them for a workable compartment space that would allow for battery exchanges.
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by keville 10y ago
You're not the first to think this is a good idea. I can think of a few [1][2][3] examples just off the top of my head. [1] https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/ [2] https://www.jsdelivr.c
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by keville 10y ago
This reminded me of one of Björk's interview responses from nearly two decades ago [1]: "Yeah, we hold the world record for the population with the highest literacy rate. No art, no painting, no dance, no history of anything but l
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by keville 10y ago
To a machinist, a tenth of a millimeter is a yawning gulf.
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by keville 10y ago
It's not called out specifically in the prose of article, but I think the dimensions overlaid on the image show quite a bit of intentional space left for tolerance around the sides of the battery, and they mention the walls formed by t
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by keville 10y ago
This is awesome, and sad, just like the Valley.
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by keville 10y ago
https://github.com/chaijs/chai I am a (somewhat myopically) JavaScript-focused developer, so I admit my own domain-specific bias here, but `chaijs.com` is the first Google search result for both "chai code" a
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by keville 10y ago
This article was originally printed in 1970. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans/Teaching/MoreBikeFiles/...
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by keville 10y ago
I don't mean to antagonize, since any more detail would give away the answer -- but a qualified candidate should recognize various encoding outputs, even if they can't immediately identify the specific encoding scheme. "It&#x
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by keville 10y ago
Apple's iCloud Drive has a decent web interface for the non-Apple subset of "any device", and otherwise seems to offer what you want. Curious if you had other reasons it doesn't meet your needs.
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by keville 10y ago
Excellent narrative on top of an incredible project!
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by keville 10y ago
Thanks for this; am local and heard a bit about this tax yesterday but no news outlet seemed to think this detail was as relevant as we do.
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by keville 10y ago
One could also imagine an event where a small cluster of meteorites moving through the solar system did not get pulled into the asteroid belt, but instead showered the Earth for a few decades, or even a century, with a few impressive streak
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by keville 10y ago
I greatly enjoyed reading this article - the author comes with some excellent research and history behind his assertions. I'm surprised to see no mention of Hewlett-Packard's similar struggles with corporate structure as it shifte
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by keville 11y ago
> is a totally incorrect thing to do in practice Can you elaborate on this? I understand that there are many sources of entropy for random number generation, and it seems like this would be as good a way as any to store* a pool of some f
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by keville 11y ago
The talk linked from this post was pretty easy to digest, perhaps you should watch the whole thing before asking what it's about? The television-standards bit, while probably longer than necessary, was meant to drive home the point tha
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by keville 11y ago
> there seems to be no shortage of awesome websites that serve their purpose This is not an effort to defeat the web, just to provide a security-oriented application platform that sits alongside it. It appears Crockford's time at Pa
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by keville 11y ago
Everything 6 years old is new again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1241479
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by keville 11y ago
> How anyone saves for a deposit, while paying rent [...] is beyond me. I couldn't agree with this sentiment of confusion more -- especially living in San Francisco, even with a reasonably healthy wage.
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by keville 11y ago
This has been posted many, many times. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bup&sort=byPopularity&prefix&p...
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by keville 11y ago
Technical Mastery is not Art, it's Technical Mastery. There's nothing inherently creative in having mastered a craft. Technical Mastery is a comparative metric when a given output has been determined to be artistic. Producing a &q
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by keville 11y ago
Don't worry, it's got company down in the bin along with Separation Of Content And Presentation. I guess if you only make HTML email templates, this is the library for you!
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by keville 11y ago
Also came here to post this link. Ought to come with a warning label.
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by keville 11y ago
Good info, I missed that bit of news. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-15/xiaomi-bac...
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by keville 11y ago
I avoided mentioning it because I couldn't remember off the top of my head when writing the above comment, but Pinion also makes a gearbox that sits next to the crankset and offers up to 18 gearing choices!
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by keville 11y ago
In my opinion, this visualization is not particularly compelling if you don't already know what you're looking at, and I can relate to your sentiment of confusion. This is a tool for analyzing and comparing differences between dri
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by keville 11y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9458268
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by keville 11y ago
Goodness gracious, you'd think GOOG could have put that link in the video description. Thanks.
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by keville 11y ago
> Q: So why didn't it succeed? > A: Because the Challenger blew up in 1986. Holy Hell, this is the most interesting bit of the whole article. To think that a company like FedEx in its young prime could have an endeavour* like tha
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by keville 11y ago
In San Francisco, at least, the trucks' cargo areas are locked and reasonably well-secured when the vehicle is not attended, to reduce the opportunity for exactly this crime. I'm sure there are areas where sniping a few boxes from

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