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by kken 13y ago
Interesting. But if I understand correctly, this will not retain images sharpness? It's not easy to see with just a 2x increase.
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by kken 13y ago
But without any impact on the western world.
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by kken 13y ago
Nikolaus Otto and Rudolf Diesel who invented the four stroke internal combustion engine and the diesel engine.
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by kken 13y ago
Do not forget Julius Edgar Lilienfeld who invented and patented the much more relevant field effect transistor more than 20 years earlier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Lilienfeld
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by kken 13y ago
The article is a bit confusing as the author may have missed that many of the current smartphones already come with MEMS barometric altitude sensors. Well, but he was nice enough to link the original article, unfortunately it is paywalled.
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by kken 13y ago
What a stupid article. Public Wifi is slow? Really? Don't block seats/aisles? Don't violate peoples personal space? Don't present with a hangover? This is rather a list of common human courtesy instead of anything that i
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by kken 13y ago
That is a pretty cool website. As a European, I think they show way too many highways. Especially considering the claim that Atlanta has more trees than any other city.
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by kken 13y ago
Funny how the first comment of that article links to an older HN submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636047
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by kken 13y ago
What is the reason? Can't find any news.
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by kken 13y ago
>First of all, there isn't even a remote threat to their retail empire. How about Alibaba? They already have more revenue than Amazon and eBay combined.
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by kken 13y ago
Make that a <$10 SDR: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&_sop=15&_n...
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by kken 13y ago
Although not completely related to the article - the headline triggered a reaction in me: Why do we need a less risky approach to entrepreneurship in software development? I believe that of all start-up opportunities, software development i
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by kken 13y ago
Solar power has something that has been proven to be an universial law for all manufacturing: The manufacturing cost decreases is a power function of cumulative production, also known as wright's law. This is a very interesting paper a
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by kken 13y ago
19:23 UTC. kken synchs the initial commit for his new repository. ooops?
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by kken 13y ago
Spelling...
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by kken 13y ago
Remember when desktop PC where made from interchangeable components? How many people actually upgraded them instead of buying a new, boxed one?
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by kken 13y ago
This is a link to a 4 year old blog entry that contains a broken link to the article in reference. An interesting form of blog-spam...
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by kken 13y ago
You know, HR people are not that primitive. More often than not they'll sense you are a bad fit for the job, not because you are "not good enough", but because of other reasons. - You may be overqualified - You may be a very
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by kken 13y ago
I designed a very similar board. It's currently on order from OSH park. I'll see how it turns out. http://oshpark.com/shared_projects/ltCSLIIB
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by kken 13y ago
It's very similar to the digispark and is riding on the tails of it. The only major difference is in the pinout. www.digistump.com
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by kken 13y ago
This is a nice one that still behaves like a bike and does not look like it was made for the elderly. http://www.electrolyte.cc/de/technik/einarmiger-bandit/ But seriously, there are many many contenders. It&
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by kken 13y ago
It almost crashed my firefox. wtf.
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by kken 13y ago
There are already plenty of media downloaders that provide their own file space and integrated playback ability. For example put.io. Loading large files to Dropbox, where you cannot stream them, seems like a step back. Besides, the site is
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by kken 13y ago
I am not sure what to make of that list * It mostly lists generic software (Google-docs?) * It's extremely MAC centric
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by kken 13y ago
Interesting article, but is it just me or did the narrative jump and loop several times?
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by kken 13y ago
Oops, sorry, looks like I slipped again. Reminder: Don't talk about Ultramarsnet.
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by kken 13y ago
>I think that this article does discredit how much smartphones have accomplished. Now anybody with a modern smartphone has a decent camera. Anybody has access to full Google search results in their pocket. It's possible that soon yo
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by kken 13y ago
>In a perfect market the company's new valuation is obviously 1.1 million dollars. Why? It is still 1 million dollars. The only difference is that the owner now owns 0.9M$ worth of company shares and 0.1M$ cash.
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by kken 13y ago
I am very impressed with the website design and the well thought through and fast user interface. It seemed to be able to gain around 5% in average. This is not useful for me personally, but I guess it can lead to significant savings if you
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by kken 13y ago
It may not be as much fun as you're used to with ping times of 2-5 minutes...

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