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axelf··on Watch This Tesla Drive Itself at the Press of a Button [video]
Corvette Z06 can do 0-60 in ~3s for $80k
axelf··on Ask HN: Should I use Polymer for my next project?
I also had issues with it crashing safari on an ipad
axelf··on Apple begins rejecting apps that offer rewards for video views, social sharing
The inkling app lets you buy ebooks.

https://www.inkling.com/

axelf··on Disqus: It's Still About Realtime, But Go Demolishes Python
why were they using python for performance critical code in the first place? Go seems closer to java's niche to me.
axelf··on Test-induced design damage
wouldn't a single abstraction over postgres, filesystem, hadoop, etc be either really leaky or really inefficient? different datastores are better suited for certain kinds of queries. It seems like the programmer should be aware of what he/she is querying.
axelf··on Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js and Socket.io
I'm assuming that the Iteratee companion object uses implicits to get the client connection. I'd really prefer something more explicit like socket.io's approach.
axelf··on Rust is not fast
The special language syntax is being removed. Its now just a library.
axelf··on Groovy 2.2 released
It seems like most people are excited for kotlin, but no one is really talking about ceylon which recently 1.0. Im curious why that is, have you looked at ceylon?
axelf··on Portable Native Client
It seems like every time someone tries to replace javascript with a better solution someone has to bring up vendor lock-in. Are we supposed to just live with javascript for eternity? When javascript was introduced it only worked on netscape browsers than other browsers adopted it later. It wasn't made a spec until later.
axelf··on Portable Native Client
How is this proprietary? Isnt there an open spec?
axelf··on Web Framework Benchmarks Round 7
Then send a pull request
axelf··on Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone
I've heard this argument from people refusing to install packages that depend on haskell too. I don't get it, 294mb is a trivial amount of space nowadays.
axelf··on Multi-tenant Java 8 VM in beta
I think java 8 gets rid of permgen
axelf··on Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis
why even use EC2 then? It would be much cheaper to use any other hosting provider.
axelf··on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
not to mention loading up the OS with a ton of crapware and free trials.
axelf··on AMC is succeeding by breaking the rules of legacy television
you're not factoring in the advertising money they're missing out on with digital downloads.
axelf··on Hyperloop Alpha [pdf]
I have taken a 40min commuter bus everyday for nearly 2 years and I never had to get off early to use the bathroom.
axelf··on Will Ubuntu Edge commit to using only free software?
Not to mention binary blobs are at least slightly more free than having the firmware built in to the device, which the FSF doesn't object to.

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100614#feature

axelf··on How do I “think in AngularJS” if I have a jQuery background?
I consider Separation of Concerns, Dependency Injection, and TDD to be basic software engineering principles. Sure if you have a mostly static page with a few dynamic components jQuery will work fine, but with a larger project that you really need to consider a more maintainable architecture.
axelf··on Google Unveils The New Nexus 7 Android Tablet
I assumed they meant "WiFi only models"
axelf··on Impressions of Go
But since you have to use casts you are giving up some advantages of static typing, right?
axelf··on Stunned by Go
Does Go not provide method overloading? Couldn't they have 3 versions of the copy method?
axelf··on Live: Head of NSA meets with House Intelligence Committee
Yep, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Harman#AIPAC_controversy
axelf··on Larry Page addresses PRISM
unless you assume the NSA has the root SSL certs.
axelf··on Let people pay you. Make it easy
But then you have to pay stripe's transaction fee. Why not use something like venmo that is free when you use it with ACH?
axelf··on Using AngularJS at Localytics
The first one requires a global method. The angular one is a method that is tightly scoped and easy to test.
axelf··on Announcing the Netflix Cloud Prize
So if you're adding tests to an existing repo do you have to copy the whole repo first instead of doing a pull request?
axelf··on This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again
I don't see why this has to be perfect. I know a lot of people who live off of potato chips, cookies, and soda. Surely this diet would be better than that.
axelf··on This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again
I don't understand why everyone on this thread is making it seem like this impossible. I feed my dog the same food and portion every single day. He is lean, muscular, and full of energy all day. We're both mammals, how different could it be?