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nja··on Programming in D
Do you think you can go into more detail on what you've found to be better in D vs Rust?
nja··on Twenty dollars in an envelope
Not to mention the fear of anger from free software advocates...
nja··on Google’s New Office In Dublin
That's interesting -- I've always heard that higher ceilings can promote creativity. Is there an optimal middle-ground between intimate low ceilings and creative high ceilings?
nja··on Bill Budge posts Pinball Construction Set source code on GitHub
I totally agree! I'd love to see the source code for the original Rollercoaster Tycoon, for example. From what I understand, it's 99% assembly with a few parts in C to handle media. It would be awesome to try to grok that!
nja··on Federal Agency wants black boxes in every new car by September 2014
There's a good summary of what this means, what the implications are, and who has rights over what here: http://jalopnik.com/5966628/everything-you-need-to-know-abou...
nja··on Moj.io: Connect your car to the world around you
That would be a pretty cool idea. The only thing that Moj.io has over what you're proposing is the ability to be always-on, even when a phone is not in the car (hence the touted ability to detect hit & runs and towing). It would be interesting to maybe have a system that uses and assists apps on the phone but can switch over to its own connection when in a parked car.
nja··on Moj.io: Connect your car to the world around you
In the mobile space, I believe there are some connectors for vehicle monitoring tools and the like -- for tracking performance data on the track or to provide supplementary info to dashcam programs. I don't know of anything standalone like this.
nja··on How to Get Startup Ideas
RelayRides comes to mind.
nja··on Motor Trend Car of the Year: Tesla Model S
Well, Porsche recently developed the 918 Spyder[1], which is a plug-in hybrid. Pretty expensive, though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_918#Spyder

nja··on Ask HN: Your best passive income sources?
I've been hearing more and more that B2B is the way to go. Sounds like it has worked well for you.
nja··on Ask HN: Your best passive income sources?
That's pretty cool, actually. I would never have thought of selling an app for that, as most everybody I know uses Advanced REST Client ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-rest-clie... ). It must be really neat to know people are choosing to pay you for your product over using a similar free app.
nja··on Android users outraged over Motorola's broken promise
It seems like this happens a lot in the Android world. HTC/Verizon recently postponed plans to upgrade the Thunderbolt to ICS: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/09/26/htc-thunderbolt-ice-...
nja··on Show HN: Webapp to determine who owes you for pizza
Neat. Back when I had roommates, we used a spreadsheet similar to this to split our expenses. Nice to see a stab at a webapp to make it easier.
nja··on How we handle deploys and failover without disrupting user experience
Thanks for the Gunicorn hot-reloading tip. I've been using Gunicorn with Supervisor, and I wish I'd known about the SIGHUP trick earlier.
nja··on WebGL Car Viewer
Wow, color me incredibly impressed.
nja··on WebGL Car Viewer
It's interesting that it's listed as an SLR in the "Credits" but as an SLK500 in the car list.
nja··on Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities and Stack Them Sideways
I agree. It would be pretty interesting.
nja··on Introducing the Command Bar
Well, I can't speak for burke, but I use GitHub Enterprise at work. Once this trickles down to GH:E, I'll probably use it very regularly.
nja··on Mapmaker, Artist, or Programmer?
Like many things, including works of art. But that doesn't mean it's worthless, and we shouldn't treat it as such.
nja··on Live air traffic of the world
That makes sense. Thanks!
nja··on Live air traffic of the world
Interesting...does JetBlue use two types of radar? I'm often seeing two icons for one flight: http://imgur.com/a/kENc0
nja··on Live air traffic of the world
I've visited that site for a while, but I think this is a little more exciting...planes tend to move faster than boats :)

Also, of course, the cockpit view is amazing.

nja··on Live air traffic of the world
This is crazy cool. I love the cockpit view!
nja··on Github: Notifications & Stars
I was reminded more of Dug: http://youtu.be/ui9Mm63zpfE?hd=1
nja··on Show HN: Hasher - Developer's toolbox for Chrome
Maybe so that it's always at your fingertips, figuratively speaking? I like that now I won't have to open a new tab and search for an online base64 converter, for example.
nja··on Sendicate - Simply send beautiful emails to people that matter.
One thing you might want to look at: slight font issues on Windows. http://i.imgur.com/JukcS.png

(Win7, Chrome)

nja··on HN's Daeken will expose security flaw in 4m hotel room keycard locks
Neat. I've often wondered about the port on the bottom of the lock. Thanks for clarifying.
nja··on HN's Daeken will expose security flaw in 4m hotel room keycard locks
My university uses Onity locks for universal access with ID cards. This means our campus (and residences) are vulnerable, too, right? Are you aware of many universities that use similar systems?
nja··on Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012
Well, it isn't quite as long, but http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/ was pretty good in terms of quality.
nja··on Introducing Word Lens, for Android
Most of the time, in my experience, goggles fails to even recognize it as text to translate, because it tries to identify objects, too.
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