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by napoleond 10y ago
HVDC does have advantages in certain scenarios (very long transmission lines, for example) but parent is still correct--the majority of the grid makes way more sense with AC.
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by napoleond 10y ago
So you concede that you were being obtuse ;)
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by napoleond 10y ago
`tptacek is being obtuse, but it really is pretty straightforward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompiler
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by napoleond 10y ago
BTW, this might simplify the rollout of conversational UI: http://www.smsinbox.net I built it last year. It has basic white-label support, but I'd be happy to work with you guys to integrate the UI more closely with what yo
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by napoleond 10y ago
Awesome feedback!! Thank you.
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by napoleond 10y ago
How are you promoting your products? I am part marketer and part developer, but I am finding it difficult to market to developers :) I recently launched http://www.smsinbox.net for Twilio devs, and am slowly gaining some users
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Show HN: SMS Inbox is a drop-in messaging UI for Twilio apps(smsinbox.net)
2 points by napoleond 10y ago|0 comments
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by napoleond 10y ago
LMAO >> If you're not American, you're screwed because you can't get to America legally. > [proceed to list a bunch of American cities]
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by napoleond 10y ago
Yep, here's an Urban Dictionary entry from 2010: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cheese%20pizz...
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by napoleond 10y ago
> Corporate earnings are taxed. Your income is also taxed. That's double tax in my mind. No, you are incorrect. There are basically two ways to draw money from a corporation that you own in Canada: through payroll, or through divi
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by napoleond 10y ago
Ah come on, this is a dick comment. It's totally fair for you to criticize the content of the post, and even correlate that to the author's failed startup. But don't be so fucking smug about it. This is a community that celeb
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by napoleond 10y ago
Sure, and I suppose "barely profitable" could be interpreted as "producing a small amount of absolute profit", but I read it as "barely producing more revenue than expenses", which is obviously incorrect in thi
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by napoleond 10y ago
> barely profitable Patrick wrote "year in review" posts going back to 2006, and they include full numbers, so you can see for yourself. Profit margins in 2014 (the most recent review) were at a whopping 60% across all his
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by napoleond 10y ago
I assume the author is referring to the developer experience of their customers (it looks like they sell a developer tool of sorts) rather than their employees. i.e. developer experience is customer experience in this case, and "UX&q
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SMS Inbox: A Messaging UI for Your Twilio App(smsinbox.net)
3 points by napoleond 10y ago|1 comments
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by napoleond 10y ago
Both you and your parent commenter are sometimes correct, depending on the situation (believe it or not, laws vary from country to country, there are many different types of military groups in each, etc). Your point of view is not always
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by napoleond 10y ago
Is it possible that their target market is not current users of decentralized DBs? At first glance, it strikes me as a solution for people storing something like scientific data sets rather than application data. In which case, posting CS
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by napoleond 10y ago
I'm not the parent, but yes those people definitely exist. They enjoy improving human systems the same way hackers enjoy building things. And they get paid well for it.
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by napoleond 10y ago
Your account sounds different from what GP describes (ie. descending from full charge in a few minutes, without any activity). I live an a region that regularly stays below 0F for months on end and have never seen or experienced such extrem
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by napoleond 10y ago
Heater coil gives way worse battery life, but can still be useful to preserve other electronics in the cold.
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by napoleond 10y ago
> Take your iPhone out on a 20F day and see how long that 100% charge lasts! (Spoiler alert, likely a few minutes). It's true that Lithium Ion batteries lose their charge in cold temperatures, but not that quickly. An iPhone in 20
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by napoleond 10y ago
My comment was descriptive, not normative.
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by napoleond 10y ago
> Why doesn't FB just apply encryption on all messages? The same reason Gmail can't work with end-to-end encryption--they want to advertise at you based on message content. I highly doubt there is any government intervention in
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by napoleond 10y ago
Here's a secret for consultants: the attitude espoused in this blog post is losing you sales. Any decent client understands that you can't give them a fully spec'd estimate before you've even begun the engagement. But th
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by napoleond 10y ago
Eventually I think it could happen. It simply requires economies of scale--the hardware is not the expensive part of an automated gas pump.
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by napoleond 10y ago
I realize I'm being a stereotypical message board nerd about what was presumably a joke, but: I don't understand what you're proposing. Surely the extraneous frequencies could just be filtered out at playback? Or ignored enti
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by napoleond 10y ago
We don't have anyone like that right now, but we're open to it.
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by napoleond 10y ago
SiteDocs is hiring junior and senior programmers to join our REMOTE team (North American time zones), working on web and mobile applications for the construction industry. (SiteDocs headquarters are near Vancouver, but our dev team is sprea
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by napoleond 10y ago
I'm not the parent, but was curious and did some digging. So far I've found this Quora post with a few options: https://www.quora.com/What-tools-can-I-use-to-create-a-guide...
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This local paper's bet on micropayments will generate ~$100k this year(niemanlab.org)
2 points by napoleond 11y ago|1 comments

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