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iknighton Elio Motors: $6800 car, 84 mpg

"Uncaught SecurityError: Blocked a frame with origin "http://www.youtube.com" from accessing a frame with origin "http://www.eliomotors.com". Protocols, domains, and ports must match."

looking for web development help?

iknighton Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views

so going to this link with ghostery enabled is a bad idea. the constant attempts to load resources that are blocked will crash chrome

iknighton Isla: a programming language for young children

Ha! I still have my Mindstorms set and I plan to knock the dust off of it in a few years when my son is old enough.

iknighton Are mobile web apps really slow?

To be fair, I'm not sure I would endeavor to make a mobile-only web app load 10000 elements to the DOM all at once. When I set to 2000, for instance, I can get below 200ms on Android 4.1.1 in chrome.

iknighton Are mobile web apps really slow?

Ran this on Android 4.1.1 in chrome and it was 913ms. Desktop was ~40ms on average.

iknighton Show HN: 7min Workout with Rdio

I don't get it.

iknighton 15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by the heat of your hand

It seems to work well for me. My son loves his. Granted I don't use it as a necessity.

iknighton Programmer Competency Matrix

i guess being able to keep a property up and running isn't one of them

iknighton AngularJS versus Ember

this just in: Ember.js Fanboi tries AngularJs-- says it sucks because it's not like Ember.js

iknighton In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things

Welcome to the corporate world, where the grass isn't always greener on the other side.

There is always being an intrapreneur. People are people and can be influenced. It isn't easy.

iknighton Ask HN: Raising my rates as an offshore dev

You've got to be wary of the cheapskate. In my experience, its traditional for american headquartered companies to view non-american workers as second class.

You are worth what someone is willing to pay and you will find someone whom is less ridiculous with a starting rate.

iknighton Report Shows Just How Wrong Silicon Valley Is About A Tech Worker Shortage

"If the people with the greatest innate love of and aptitude for programming are evenly distributed among the world's population, 95% of them are born outside the US."

care to back up that anecdote?

iknighton US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits

Co-Chaired by Jon Hunstman Jr. FTW!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Huntsman,_Jr.

iknighton US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits

Wow, "The National Bureau of Asian Research", really?

iknighton Chinese boy defaces ancient Egyptian sculpture, prompts online outrage

Because "human" defaces ancient Egyptian sculpture, prompts online outrage...

...doesn't sound the same.

iknighton Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write

Its Ed Bott. A part of the Microsoft spin machine. Come on.

iknighton Why JavaScript Is Doomed