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brownBananason Show HN: Tonic – A data visualizing REPL for Node.js

The stylesheets aren't loading for me. Let me know where I can send you information to help you reproduce this.

brownBananason Nod - Touchless Interaction

Looks good! It would be nice to get more information about the OpenSpatial framework.

Agreed. Especially since University of Waterloo seems to be churning out more talent than ever.

A little more info for those interested:

University of Waterloo has the generic Computer Science program as part of the Math faculty, as well as an another Software Engineering program as a joint program between the Math and Engineering faculties. Both programs offer co-op all year around. For more information, check out: https://uwaterloo.ca/jobmine/employers

brownBananason Amazon Prime Air

Hold on a second, what happens when some birds, winds, or malicious citizens damage the drones? Does Amazon keep sending new ones?

How do the drones deliver to apartment buildings or any address that does not have a lawn?

Would return service work the same way?

I love the product, but a little disappointed by the limited FAQ section.

brownBananason Show HN: Ubiq - Extend your app across multiple devices

+1 for conference rooms. Need more demos of what else can be done with this! Signed up for now to get more updates.

brownBananason Don't write code first

Are you sure?

brownBananason Don't write code first

No, I don't think it's backwards thinking to me, but I do agree with you. People loving hacking because it's a fun thing to do. And most of the times, building a business isn't even the point of it all.

The problem I have with this article and your comment, is the generalization of the term "hackers". Is anyone that codes in their free time, a "hacker"? Is a software engineer that works full time at a company, a "hacker"? What about UI designers that write CSS? What about business guys who throw something together in HTML and jQuery? Are they hackers as well? Different people have different goals for what they are building or hacking on. I really don't understand how we are still throwing such vague terms around like we all fit in this one category of people, and we all want to achieve the same things.

brownBananason World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency

> Back in May 2013, the German-French team of Fraunhofer ISE, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin had already announced a solar cell with 43.6% efficiency.

brownBananason World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency

Probably just a benchmark. Goal # 1: "At least get half the way there".

brownBananason World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency

Is the composition of this one solar cell from 4 subcells of any significance? Is it just 4 for a reason?

brownBananason Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

http://sivers.org/zipit

Also a TED Talk by the same guy: http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_you...

brownBananason Editr v2 - Host your HTML, CSS, JS demos on your server

Nice logo animation, the site looks great, but I have trouble figuring out why I would want to edit just a few files via a web browser.

Read-ony makes sense, and something like Cloud9 makes sense. But just editing a few files? You might have to help me out here. Genuinely requesting.

brownBananason Cmd.fm

Good stuff! I personally don't have a use for it, but I think other's need to see this.

If anyone is looking for a front-end job, look in the right place. Look in the source.

brownBananason I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

People declaring their cynicism about humanity (or trite variations like "faith restored") make me cynical about humanity.

This is very intriguing. Although I have some idea of what you mean, I would love it if you could elaborate on this.

brownBananason Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox

Seamless in which sense? Across different devices, mail services, accounts, etc?

brownBananason Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox

Not OP, but to answer your question - yes, the original emails are preserved. More info: https://trysignal.com/using-signal/

brownBananason Watch how fast people are upgrading to iOS 7

Where is this data coming from?

brownBananason EmberJS SEO

Few questions for you, hope you don't mind filling me in:

* Which web[sites/apps/companies] still value SEO so much?

* Out of those, how many absolutely require a JavaScript Framework that generates majority of the "content" on the page?

* Doesn't Google (perhaps other engines as well) crawl and store dynamically generated content anyways?

* Is there really any optimization needed?

brownBananason Show HN:San Francisco JavaScript API

Cool. Any possibility of putting the source code on Github?

brownBananason RedScript – like CoffeeScript, in Ruby

You should write a new language called Rucoffee. It's CoffeeScript that looks like Ruby. Will definitely give you 100+ stars on Github.

brownBananason Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being

Not going to lie, I read the first two lines, stopped, opened a new tab, and searched for Calico. Then came back and read the rest of the post.

brownBananason Preventing Cheating at Hackathons

Great article! I would like to add something to the source code solution:

* Create private repos for all the participants well in advanced, and ask them to commit their changes to their designated repo.

* At the time of the deadline, all pushes will be blocked, and/or the current version will be pulled down to a "demo" machine.

* Participants must provide a make file (or something similar) to automate the building on all projects.

* When their time for demo comes, they will only get to demo whatever that has been compiled on the "demo" machine.

* The "demo" machine would be hooked up to the projector, and will be the only machine used for demo-ing purposes. This also saves the time spent in hooking up their laptops to the projector.

That's all. Sounds academical, but it's a really good way of monitoring cheating (provided you have an audit team as well).

brownBananason No more CSS and HTML, just JS

How is that different than another framework such as Angular JS, or something like web components perhaps? Each view, or directory or component can have it's own CSS file with existing solutions too.

What we are seeing here is an attempt to solve the same problem, but by doing all the work by using JavaScript. Cool. But not impressed.

brownBananason No more CSS and HTML, just JS

My thoughts exactly, word for word. If you have ever built a UI heavy app, you would know how important it is to have the separation between html, css and js. It's not just about putting them in different files, it's about the context. It's separation of duties.

brownBananason No more CSS and HTML, just JS

How so?

brownBananason No more CSS and HTML, just JS

You are right, it doesn't have to. But there are a lot of newcomers to front-end web app development (either moving from other technologies, or new to dev altogether) that might think this library is fit for all sorts of projects and businesses.

That being said, this library does try to solve a problem, it's not useless. In my opinion, it's just not the right tool.. yet.

brownBananason No more CSS and HTML, just JS

I am sorry, you make a good point, but it's for "better way of doing things". Such comment is so far deep into the common sense territory that there is hardly any reason to mention it explicitly. This discussion is happening with exactly that in mind.

Other folks here have mention the separation of concerns. Is there something that you can say related to that? Loved your summary of benefits and trade-offs, but can you please address MarkHarmon's comments? Thanks.

brownBananason Luma (YC W12) acquired by Facebook and integrated into Instagram video

This is amazing! When I first saw Luma, I thought it was technology too early for common person/user. But integrating it with Instagram's existing user base, everyone can start reaping the benefits. Good job guys!

brownBananason Apple announces iPad Mini with a 7.9-inch, 1,024 x 768 display - $329

I don't know how they are going to compete with Microsoft Surface(1366 x 768) with this Mini(1,024 x 768) without Retina Display.

Edit: Price difference - I see.

brownBananason Vimium: Vim Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Chrome

It should allow you to upload your own .vimrc, and map these keyboard shortcuts to the one you have specified.