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beltexon Roadster 3.0

"Should mention that a battery pack upgrade is not coming soon for the Model S, but it obviously will happen long-term."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/548269323681529856

beltexon DuetDisplay and Unattributed Open-Source

https://github.com/rsms/peertalk/commit/5973b1722d3330340c08...

PeerTalk's README was just updated with a note about DuetDisplay.

beltexon Battery Swap Pilot Program

"At least initially, battery swap will be available by appointment and will cost slightly less than a full tank of gasoline for a premium sedan."

Assuming there is demand for battery swaps, as the install base grows, this will almost certainly drop.

beltexon Battery Swap Pilot Program

"It’s actually funny, because before we were able to get the Roadster out, they would say, “Well you couldn’t possibly make that car work”. Then when we made the car work, then they’d say, “Well nobody’s going to buy it”. Then people bought it. Then we announced the Model S and so many people called bullshit on that it was ridiculous, and yet we were able to bring it to market, and when we brought it to market they said, “Well you’d never be able to produce it at volume”, and then we did that. Then they said, “You will never be able to make a profit”, then we did that in Q1. So I’m hopeful that people will observe that theres a trend here."

- Elon Musk

http://youtu.be/QUiWPZQiy64?t=43s

beltexon Apple goes to war with the BBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVaTl2kW6YU

The full documentary by BBC.

beltexon Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go

"Apple views itself as a software company."

- Steve Jobs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeyaAUCyZs

beltexon OS X 10.10 – Source Code

https://github.com/ksm/SwiftInFlux#open-source-possibility

beltexon Introducing Phoenix, Swift set free

"Guys, feel free to make up your own dragons if you want, but your speculation is just that: speculation. We literally have not even discussed this yet, because we have a ton of work to do to respond to the huge volume of feedback we're getting, and have to get a huge number of things (e.g. access control!) done before the 1.0 release this fall. You can imagine that many of us want it to be open source and part of llvm, but the discussion hasn't happened yet, and won't for some time.
Sorry to leave you all hanging, but there is just far too much to deal with right now.

-Chris"

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-June/073698....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lattner

beltexon A Raw Deal in Michigan

Winter driving in Norway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxR99bGYEAQ

beltexon Tesla to unveil D and other product on October 9th

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/18/6446245/musk-says-fully-se...

beltexon Tesla to unveil D and other product on October 9th

The Model X is dual motor all wheel drive. So maybe it's being ported over to the Model S. Musk speaking about it below.

http://youtu.be/2cpe0stVtLA?t=3m25s

beltexon NASA to Make Major Announcement Today About Astronaut Transport to the ISS

Result:

"The partnership w/ @Boeing & @SpaceX promises to give more people the opportunity to experience the exhilaration of spaceflight"

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/511970135935295488

beltexon Ask HN: Would you like to see notifications in HackerNews?

https://github.com/HackerNews/HN

beltexon Apple releases Xcode6-Beta6

I can't seem to find it. Beta 5 still listed below.

https://developer.apple.com/swift/resources/

UPDATE: Turns out it was a bad build and so it was pulled.

https://devforums.apple.com/message/1025094#1025094

beltexon Interacting with C Pointers

Likewise, I'm running into UnsafePointers with IOKit.

beltexon Tesla Model III to challenge BMW 3 Series

FYI, the Model 3 images used by @AutoExpress were mock-ups based on their own speculation.

https://twitter.com/TeslaMotors/status/489200528908226561

beltexon Tesla Model III to challenge BMW 3 Series

Indeed. Dual motor all wheel drive. Musk speaking about it below.

http://youtu.be/2cpe0stVtLA?t=3m25s

beltexon Tesla Model III to challenge BMW 3 Series

Winter driving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxR99bGYEAQ

beltexon Tesla Model III to challenge BMW 3 Series

For reference and fun, Musk speaking about the trademark.

http://youtu.be/MBItc_QAUUM?t=38m30s

BTW, they have 'y' as well. :)

beltexon Apple and IBM Forge Global Partnership to Transform Enterprise Mobility

Interview with both CEOs.

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000292886

beltexon ITerm2 2.0

Awesome, congrats on the release!

Aside: Check For Update... still gives 1.0.0.20140629 as the latest version. Have to download a 2.0 build explicitly.

http://www.iterm2.com/downloads.html

beltexon A Supercharging Milestone

Also, battery swaps, which is faster than filling a tank of gas (though not free), will help. As Musk put it, when you'd come to a supercharger station, it be a decision between faster (battery swap) or free (supercharger).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY

beltexon Google.com/killer-robots.txt

https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/84

beltexon Google.com/killer-robots.txt

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7979909

beltexon Farewell Node.js

https://segment.io/team

Also listed on his GitHub - https://github.com/visionmedia

beltexon Farewell Node.js

"First, lets admit the facts: as of today, it is possible to produce a competitive Node application whose entire stack will comfortably rest on various frameworks, tools and libraries developed exclusively by TJ. If you are doing things with Node, you will not escape TJ. He is omnipresent."

http://www.quora.com/TJ-Holowaychuk-1/How-is-TJ-Holowaychuk-...

beltexon MacDown: Open-source Markdown editor for OS X

Nice work!

What about Atom's markdown preview though? I found myself switching over to that from Mou.

https://github.com/atom/markdown-preview

beltexon How To Marry The Right Girl: A Mathematical Solution

Also, a normal distribution would help, so you don't encounter values way off that would skew the results.

beltexon All Our Patent Are Belong To You

133 seems about right. 136 by my count of the Tesla patent wall via Steve Jurvetson.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/14405402742/