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At Apple, we were always asking, What else can we revolutionize? We looked at video cameras and remote controls. The craziest thing we talked about was something like Google Glass. We said, "What if we make visors, so it's like you're sitting in a theater?" I built a bunch of those prototypes. But we had such success with the things we were already doing that we didn't have time.

- Tony Fadell

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3016339/an-oral-history-of-apple...

beltexon Elon Musk: Gigafactory will take battery production 'to another level'

Some interesting snippets of info about batteries from Musk.

Battery form factor: http://youtu.be/pQupELupKWM?t=2m15s

Apple Engineer asking about Tesla battery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN5HT9mj_4M

beltexon Apple Close to Buying Beats Electronics for $3.2 Billion

Beats CEO Jimmy Iovine in Talks to Join Apple as 'Special Adviser'

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/05/08/beats-jimmy-iovine-join-...

beltexon Apple Said to Be in Talks to Buy Beats for $3.2 Billion

Interesting. Brunner tried to hire him several times apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqJVHe6LN4E

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

beltexon How many 32-bit RISC CPUs fit in an FPGA? Now vs. 1995?

Pretty much the same answer from a CPU researcher formerly at Intel, in a reddit AMA.

"I like FPGAs, but I doubt they will ever become widely deployed. They pay ~20x overhead, so any algorithm that is a good fit for them becomes a new instruction in the next CPU generation. The reprogrammability is only a feature in highly constrained (i.e. niche) environments."

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1yj77b/as_requested_i_...

beltexon Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused

Loved this post.

FYI, the Andrew Wiles quote is from the opening of an awesome BBC documentary about how he solved Fermat's Last Theorem - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FnXgprKgSE

beltexon Live updates about the ukrainian conflict

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1zct8q/mobilization_uk...

beltexon Lisp: A Language for Internet Scripting and Programming (1998) [pdf]

I believe the University of Waterloo is one of them.

beltexon How to Stop Giving a Fuck What People Think

The rest of the article aside, I really like the notion of travelling alone, at least once. It reminds me of a quote from one of my favourite movies, Into the Wild.

”The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now, I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head. “

Not that you have to hitchhike alone to the Alaskan wilderness! Thats extreme of course.

beltexon 500 days – the longest streak on GitHub?

Or commits to non master branch that don't later get merged - https://help.github.com/articles/why-are-my-contributions-no...

beltexon Atom

It's a fair point, but by this rationale no new DBs or PLs should be made. Most of these die off or become niche, the ones that really become fundamental are few and far between. This idea that we have to drop everything and go "learn" this new thing is bogus. Folks in tech often seem to buy into the hype of some new technology all too easily, riding the wave of excitement. So their shouldn't be any concerns, of "yet another editor”.

BTW, I'm not saying this won't be successful! It looks interesting and I am excited, GitHub does great work, but you keep it in perspective.

beltexon Tesla CEO Musk on Battery Factor, Model X, Apple [video]

Shortcut for comments regarding Apple - http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/19/tesla-ceo-acquisition-un...

beltexon Tesla Beats In Q4 With Adjusted Revenues Of $761M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FVbyyDLzvg

beltexon Tesla electric car catches fire in Toronto; company has not yet explained

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