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nsomething··on Heartbleed Alexa top 10000
my ASUS router uses the 1.0.0 branch so it shouldn't be vulnerable to this bug
nsomething··on Lithium Battery Pack Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard
If RC Monster trucks can have replaceable battery packs, I imagine board vibration more than moisture has to be pretty severe to warrant permanent connections.
nsomething··on On Hyperloop
If I recall correctly, Tesla had difficulty designing a transmission at first go and they are in the car business.

So I guess the point is, apparently persistence counts for something.

nsomething··on Running Lua in a browser via Emscripten
If this is the real deal, then why not ship common language VMs (in asm.js) with the browser? Then you don't need to worry about 200k at all and all code can run in the browser? I mean, if google is shipping NaCL and Dart VMs, why not? Updates could ship with browser updates, or you can still load your own rolled version if you like.
nsomething··on Driving students into science is a fool's errand
How about going into STEM to understand how the world works a little better?

Would you rather have a society full of too many engineers or that of too many lawyers?

nsomething··on Tesla Handles Better than a Corvette Z06
Isn't it the torque curve that's smooth for electric motors and not power?
nsomething··on The Meme Hustler - Tim O’Reilly’s crazy talk
That's funny, I said the exact opposite to my friends comparing this piece to Gladwell.
nsomething··on New $250 Chromebook
agreed. Totally misleading
nsomething··on Coco Controller (YC S12) Will Turn Your iPhone Into A Gaming Powerhouse
does 20 ms latency cut it?
nsomething··on Textmate2 Goes Open Source
Maybe now I can add my own "replace" button in the Find Dialog of TextMate 2. The only button there for me is "replace all"

Does anyone else have that issue?

nsomething··on Nokia sells Qt to Digia
Don't the the four voting members of the foundation have to vote to BSD license Qt? Its not auto kick-in right?

I think there are a ton of partiess that would be interested in developing a BSD modern GUI framework like Qt 5.

nsomething··on Show HN: Brandseen - A logo coloring game built in 24h
I thought the coca cola logo was white lettering on a red field. Batman logo coloring is dubious at best
nsomething··on Zero-day Exploit Price List
Perhaps the worst thing about this is that engineers at the browser makers are now incentivized to create Zero-days. $250k and rising for knowingly creating a backdoor? There's now a market for software engineer corruption. Maybe add in some middlemen...
nsomething··on The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable
I dislike propriety SDD connectors mainly. Full disk encryption and backup are even more musts.

I enjoyed migrating foolishly unbacked up data from a laptop with a dead [Insert failed component that's not the drive] by popping the 2.5" drive into an external enclosure. Now I have to give my drive to somebody else? Or use iCloud.

Tough sell to me

nsomething··on HP designjet 3D printer (German site) check the video
This is a rebranded Dimension/Stratasys product. The crescent wrench is the standard built-in test part for the Dimension line.

http://www.uprint3dprinting.com/

Also, who did the marketing video for this? Need to add them to my rolodex

nsomething··on The Dawn of Haiku OS
I was an occasional user of BeOS 4 and 5. Got the free upgrade to 5 in the mail.

It's anachronistic I know, but I think the biggest issue with the OS was timing. If the FOSS movement had as much commercial maturity as today, I think the story of BeOS would be way different. It was pretty well placed at the time in terms of offering a solid media experience coupled with a POSIX compliant environment. I'm pretty sure it would be used like OS X is today by many devs, but without the hardware lock-in.

It was super fun to use BeOS, I just didn't have a workflow that matched it at the time.

nsomething··on Github is making me feel stupid(er)
I spent a half an hour trying to figure out how to switch my dashboard to my organization and find the button to create a new repository for the organization. Who knew it was in the News Feed Tab. That needs to change. Clear links for organization management gotta be there.
nsomething··on Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
You also can develop just in QML, which is really nice.
nsomething··on Go is amazing, period.
Go needs Allman style. It's unnatural to me otherwise
nsomething··on A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work
What makes software patents so special? Whether an idea is novel seems relative to who you are talking to in my experience.
nsomething··on Advanced Data Structures MIT
Must be typeset in LaTeX? That seems ridiculous.