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   by nextstep 12y ago

   From the FAQ ( http://boostedboards.com/faq/ ): >BRAKING DOWNHILL ON A FULL BATTERY WILL CAUSE BOARD SHUTDOWN since the regen will overcharge the battery. To prevent this from happening, the remote will warn you by be
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   2015: The Year of Emoji Diversity(blog.emojipedia.org)

   42 points by nextstep 12y ago|25 comments
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   by nextstep 12y ago

   Completely agree. The article mentions how shitty it can be going from the West side to Silver Lake, possibly 3 hours with traffic. How would an uber make this any better? I guess you can spend those hours in the backseat instead of at t
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   by nextstep 12y ago

   Working for Google today is a lot like working for the Microsoft of ~15 years ago. Employees are well paid, benefits are good, it's comfortable. The quality of the hires are still pretty good, but definitely not what they were 5 years
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   by nextstep 12y ago

   Here are some good reasons why Scotland should not become independent: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/opinion/paul-krugman-scots...
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   by nextstep 12y ago

   That's why I imagine Apple will somehow market a trade-in program. As Gruber writes, the gold watches will retain a lot of their value just from the metals in the case and bracelet.
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   by nextstep 12y ago

   Thanks. Makes sense.
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   by nextstep 12y ago

   I'm not sure I understand Stripe's value proposition here. What is the benefit of using Stripe's library over using ApplePay (PassKit) directly? (Honest question)
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   by nextstep 12y ago

   Works fine in Mobile Safari.
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    They likely did that to make the increase seem more significant. A "6 percent increase" to 44.4 years is an increase of only 2.5 years.
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    >> For safety, Swift requires the variables to be initialized before being passed with &. This is because it cannot know whether the method being called tries to read from a pointer before writing to it. Isn't the 'maybe
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    Looks like a number of emoji will redirect you to the proper Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🐘 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🐕 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/💅
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    Chrome does its own text rendering and their font doesn't have characters for the emoji code points. There are a number of chrome extensions that add these characters. (Here's one: https://chrome.google.com/webst
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    This is a very thorough answer.
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    And once the US Dept. of State investigated, they discovered the 23 Americans claim to be false (but later one dual-national American was found to have boarded the flight): http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118762&#x2F
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    Yeah, those reports were wrong: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118762/false-report-23-am... .
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    I don't think any of the passengers were from the US.
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    If the Earth's magnetic field wasn't protecting the earth, even for a few minutes, tons of high energy particles from the sun would enter our atmosphere. That could be pretty shitty for life on Earth (even if it doesn't mass
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    They should have gone with Yotato. Clearly a better name.
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    Not surprising. Class extensions in Objective-C cannot add stored properties either; objc_setassociatedobject and objc_getassociatedobject are shitty hacks.
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    New York, LA, probably others all have very fast growing tech scenes. And the worse things get in SF, the less of a lead the Bay Area has over these other cities. It is more expensive to live in San Francisco than in a nice part of New Yo
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    You're correct about the $1 syntax representing parameters, but the parameter indices start at 0: sort(arr) { $0 > $1 }
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    I like the syntax of Swift
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    >> ...the price of rice skyrocketed from 4 to 36 cents per pound (a 900% increase). That's an 800% increase.
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    There are 299 places in Iran named "Mohammadabad".
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    Clearly I did not. Sorry.
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    Sweet pics of it charging! I wonder what it looks like being ridden.
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    60 to 600 is a 900% increase.
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    I refuse to use Dropbox after Condoleezza Rice was appointed to their board. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/protests-continue-a... I hope these protests hurt Dropbox's image and business and th
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    by nextstep 12y ago

    I'm glad tha Apple maps is steadily improving. There needs to be competition so that free services will compete for users by improving the user experience. I think iOS 8 will include major updates to Apple maps that will integrate tra