sylvinus

41 ms·

391.
by sylvinus 15y ago
Actually much, much less than $180: that includes the cost of all the parts, many of which are not produced in China.
392.
by sylvinus 15y ago
yes to me this is the craziest part.
393.
by sylvinus 15y ago
I strongly considered stopping reading at "Uranium is the heaviest element on earth"...
394.
by sylvinus 15y ago
Gandi will also do it until Jan 15th: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3404854
395.
by sylvinus 15y ago
> We should be able to answer a lot of questions by raising small mammals on the ISS. I'm very curious on why this has not been done yet (or has it?)
396.
by sylvinus 15y ago
genius idea is genius.
397.
by sylvinus 15y ago
You're re-defining eCommerce? Sure.
398.
by sylvinus 15y ago
Seems like this kind of resolves the issue for the border property but is not suitable for others?
399.
by sylvinus 15y ago
Not to diminish substack's huge achievements, but we used dnode on a project and finally went back to just using socket.io as it worked way better. The latest socket.io releases have added a lot of features (node client, rooms, ...) that ma
400.
by sylvinus 15y ago
It's nice to see the ESA working to help the Russians, I guess they do it mostly for science's sake!
401.
by sylvinus 15y ago
Regarding the rendering technologies it was exactly the same, a big pile of JS that you need to render actual content. The main point of the author seems to be that G+ doesn't use progressive enhancement.
402.
by sylvinus 15y ago
http://fuckyeahinternetfridge.tumblr.com
403.
by sylvinus 15y ago
That sounded very wrong to me too. Rightfuly or not, I immediately got the image of Basho using their "secret" bugs to demo a MongoDB fail to a big potential customer.
404.
by sylvinus 15y ago
Sugata and Sal being two TEDsters, I'm sure they know each other.
405.
by sylvinus 15y ago
depends if it's pretty printed or not (like the example above)
406.
by sylvinus 15y ago
If somebody could explain why storing fuel in space is more efficient than just packing what's needed for each mission? :)
407.
NASA Considering Fuel Depots in Space(nytimes.com)
12 points by sylvinus 15y ago|11 comments
408.
by sylvinus 15y ago
He didn't recruit him but he got him out of the closet where he was hidden and put him in charge of the design team
409.
by sylvinus 15y ago
As Matt Ridley puts it in his TED talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.htm... ) : Nobody on earth knows how to build a computer mouse (all by himself).
410.
by sylvinus 15y ago
What are your plans for build.phonegap.com, regarding pricing, feature scope and API?
411.
by sylvinus 15y ago
as I wrote in the article, I also think Flash will have some valid use cases for the next few years. Games, like you mentioned, are definitely one of these. I agree with you on GIMP vs. Photoshop. It's not even close. But Flash vs. HTML5/JS
412.
The second day Flash died(sylvainzimmer.com)
14 points by sylvinus 15y ago|11 comments
413.
Mandelbrot set in 138 bytes of Javascript(jsfiddle.net)
2 points by sylvinus 15y ago|0 comments
414.
by sylvinus 15y ago
I think "High-Resolution" is a bit misleading when talking about a fractal :)
415.
by sylvinus 15y ago
This is indeed the coolest thing: The first English word in pi is... wait for it... PI, coming in at position 18. Now isn't that cute?
416.
by sylvinus 15y ago
awesome story ;-) Can't wait to see you there!
417.
by sylvinus 15y ago
Someone blogged about the first meetup here: http://blog.medusis.com/first-paris-hackers-meetup
418.
2nd HN meetup in Paris, October 5th(parishackers.org)
45 points by sylvinus 15y ago|8 comments
419.
by sylvinus 15y ago
There are no hard limits but I guess [1...4] is reasonable. Looking forward to seeing you there, feel free to ask more!
420.
by sylvinus 15y ago
Second the need for an API. I could see so many plugins for this (github being the first)

More ›