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by maxmcd 12y ago
I don't see how that's even possible. A $3bil cash infusion is going to increase prices and create need for more product. The US can't just make a deal to buy opium at a fixed price every year. It sounds like a slightly more
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by maxmcd 12y ago
I feel like whenever I read discussions about this on HN it's all about the JS engine. Chrome was on webkit but used V8. And unless something has changed all non-safari browsers and webviews use an inferior JS engine. Edit: (Something
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by maxmcd 12y ago
http://jsfiddle.net/955x2w5a/embedded/result/
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by maxmcd 12y ago
Why would they do that? They have competition, even if it doesn't seem so obvious right now, and a larger percentage of nyc's cab market share seems much more valuable. Especially if it's so easy for them to raise money.
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by maxmcd 12y ago
Looks like this is the data source: http://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/3q43-55fe?$limit=10000 This map is great in terms of personal use. "Are there rat reports near where I live?". But would be great to s
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by maxmcd 12y ago
Ah, of course, understood.
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by maxmcd 12y ago
Lock the body of a site by default? I can see when I'm scrolling. Position fixed? What about when the modal content is longer than than the scroll area? There are animations for me on mobile. :)
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by maxmcd 12y ago
It "works" in firefox: https://gist.github.com/VictorBjelkholm/1d0f4ee6dc5ec0d6646e
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by maxmcd 12y ago
For all the usual discussion on HN about sample size, confirmation bias, FUD, survivorship bias, etc... I'm surprised to see so many personal experiences gaining upvotes. There are certainly quite a few linked studies and supported arg
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by maxmcd 12y ago
For #2. The dots are completely irrelevant, so you can actually add and remove. m.axm@gmail.com ma.xm@gmail.com m.ax.m@gmail.com m.a.x.m@gmail.com etc etc etc
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by maxmcd 12y ago
Why are new features and change inherently a good thing? In my experience building consumer products "feature creep", and "unnecessary complexity" are the enemy. Not lack of features and frequent updates.
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by maxmcd 12y ago
#3 is the biggest offender for me. The feeling of "well, I'm scrolling, but nothing's happening. Am I doing something wrong...oh there it is" can really throw off an otherwise positive content experience.
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by maxmcd 12y ago
They're likely not working with the R8 because their self-driving capabilities are a marketing tool to compete with the likes of the Mercedes S-Class. The R8 is also at the end of its product life-cycle so they're probably trying
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by maxmcd 12y ago
Partially addressing 1 and 2: As someone who has had Lyme and writes software I can't imagine how we would even get 10% of the way there on #1, and #2 just sounds like a recipe for disaster. Imagine if Reddit took on patient diagnosis.
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by maxmcd 12y ago
The zoomable-versions use leaflet, so this might be worth a look: https://github.com/mapbox/leaflet-image
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by maxmcd 12y ago
I'm sure w1ntermute knows this. The common complaint about apple is that they're not expanding/diversifying their business more with their available capital. Not that they're doing nothing with a literal pile of cash.
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by maxmcd 12y ago
Looks like HTML/Plaintext/JSON exporting options are currently supported.
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by maxmcd 12y ago
I'm always pretty skeptical of any new "organizational tool" but this really fits with my workflow. Currently porting over most of my todo lists/tasks. Would be nice to get access to a full API. If I could automatically
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by maxmcd 12y ago
http://chat.cc is mostly material design outside the signup page. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hk24p7rjillampz/Screenshot%202014-...
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by maxmcd 12y ago
Is there a reason they have white dots on the new prototype? Are they doing any kind of external tracking? Edit: Ah, yes that's apparently how they're doing 360° head tracking.
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by maxmcd 12y ago
Fishy? Their post generated a lot of attention and certainly attracted acquisition offers. This could have been intentional or not, but unless they have some hard-and-fast reason not to sell this doesn't seem like the most unlikely out
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by maxmcd 12y ago
We started out with no-login, but without the ability to save emails and have some kind of session persistence we ended up with a lot of abandoned conversations. It is pretty much no-login now, you can just send an email and go, even if you
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by maxmcd 12y ago
Max from chat.cc here. Yep, that's the exact issue we're currently thinking through. Our current mentality is that this is an "email app". Email conversations exist as they normally do, but with a voluntary chat layer re
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Show HN: Chat.cc – Turn your email conversations into a real-time chat(chat.cc)
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by maxmcd 12y ago
It's a b<>b play. They're not looking to sell to consumers, they sell to companies that need this map for reference.
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by maxmcd 12y ago
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator
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by maxmcd 12y ago
More inefficient than producing and maintaining paper currency? Than mining actual gold? They really are just throwing tons of electricity and hardware at "nothing", but if this kind of activity helps replace the current inefficie
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by maxmcd 12y ago
Might want to make that email input type="email" Either way, signed up.
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by maxmcd 12y ago
This is fascinating. Thank you.
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by maxmcd 12y ago
This might be an absurd question, but I can't think of a better place to ask it. In my mind there's a huge mental disconnect between computers (servers/personal computers) and infrastructure like this. Could someone provide i

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