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ukandy··on France to pave 1,000km of road with solar panels
Sheltered cycleways would be the most green idea.
ukandy··on France to pave 1,000km of road with solar panels
Why would you put them in the car park and not on the roof where they can be angled and unobstructed, with no new engineering challenges.

Sheep can still graze under the panels on farmland. Not that I'm advocating, farming sheep or using green fields for solar panels!

ukandy··on France to pave 1,000km of road with solar panels
> About 80% of this commercial space is parking lots. It's wasted space. Why not use it to produce power?

You didn't get my point obviously. Parking spaces are to park on. When a car is on a parking space, it's blocking the light from tiles under it and also casting a shadow.

> Why use additional fertile or constructible terrain to add solar tiles?

Because they won't have cars park on them. They will also be at an optimal angle and cleaner.

ukandy··on France to pave 1,000km of road with solar panels
> The tiles will be mostly installed on parking space near commercial centers..

What would possible block the sun from reaching these solar cells...

> I find it actually a great idea, especially with more electrical cars looking for plugs at those locations.

Oh yeah.

ukandy··on France to pave 1,000km of road with solar panels
Wouldn't it be simpler to dictate that if you own a commercial warehouse over xxxx sqm you must install solar panels, or allow them to be installed.

Give large incentives, better rates, it's not like the nuclear industry don't get a helping hand.

ukandy··on France to pave 1,000km of road with solar panels
You still need to build a normal road under the solar panels. They aren't going to be laying solar panels on dirt.
ukandy··on Ask HN: Where would you incorporate your European startup?
Your accountant will also be working to make the business look as bad as possible on paper to save you tax. With that caveat, it's a tool I've used to investigate markets to see how big they are.
ukandy··on Show HN: LoginBox – Authentication, payments and memberships from a single box
Running a payment gateway and authentication services is like painting a massive target on your back. The security must be impeccable, one mistake would be a monumental score on the part of a cracker.

A VPS introduces many layers of possible weakness, that could be used a entry points for an attack.

PHP just isn't the right tool for the job. I agree with you, that at this point in time it's secure. I trust that other languages, with smaller, simpler code bases will be more secure over time.

ukandy··on Show HN: LoginBox – Authentication, payments and memberships from a single box
I have huge respect for PHP, and many years of PHP development under my belt. I wouldn't dream of using it for something pretty heavy weight such a this. Certainly a factor that would come into play for some prospective users.
ukandy··on Show HN: LoginBox – Authentication, payments and memberships from a single box
Genuinely like the idea, but wouldn't trust a service that uses PHP on a VPS without SSL. I'm sure you will fix the SSL when you launch, and I'm just a snob with regards to PHP.
ukandy··on Distances you can travel on a European train in less than a day
A local branch line (UK) has been testing battery powered trains this year, to save the expensive of electrifying the line. They charge the batteries on the electrified main line. Hopefully this will take off on other branch lines.
ukandy··on Distances you can travel on a European train in less than a day
A great benefit is you end up in the heart of a city, not at airfield 80 miles away. Lock your bag up in the station and explore.

If you like your long railway journeys, Olso to Bergen is beautiful 7 hour trip.

ukandy··on Show HN: Bananalert
Here I am developing a BLE ethylene monitoring device. Arg, your implementation is so simple. My kickstarter is doomed to failure.
ukandy··on Frankencamera
Google "silicon film" & "digipod" for a couple of attempts at exactly this.
ukandy··on Disassembling the Amazon Dash
Irresponsible product design. Unnecessary and throwaway.
ukandy··on Payments – Why we make you type "$0"
"You built an entire operating system."

It's Ubuntu (under the hood), marketed at people that wouldn't consider using a *nix OS.

ukandy··on Output of Dutch solar bike lane exceeds expectations
Why anyone would pursue such a suboptimal installations is beyond me. Researchers finding ways to waste grant money I guess..
ukandy··on How a Russian Syndicate Scammed Us for $25K
"Because we helped with the website migration, we also had one of his passwords. As it turns out, he likes to use this password for his email address and other accounts as well.

We ended up with access to multiple private email accounts, one of his registrar accounts (NameCheap), his eBay account, SitePoint account and more."

That's as sketchy as it gets.

Go clean out your support tickets with customers passwords in now.

ukandy··on Worldwide DNS Performance
Not forgetting cache, and the fact that slower response times aren't horrendous in the scheme of things.
ukandy··on Virtual DNS: DDoS Mitigation and Global Distribution for DNS Traffic
As honourable as you guys are, if your network is compromised it doesn't matter.
ukandy··on Zend PHP JIT open sourced
Zend Engine has been under it's own Zend license for 15 years I reckon. The web would probably look very different without Zend.
ukandy··on Show HN: Advertising-Free Search-Engine
It does reduce your view of what's out there to some extent, giving seemingly undue bias to certain services or opinions.
ukandy··on Routing on OpenStreetMap.org
Great to see public rights of way being included in the walking directions.
ukandy··on OpenBSD Mail Server Intro
Not what you are asking for, but possibly another approach to consider - https://bitbucket.org/chrj/smtpd.
ukandy··on Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go
"Disclaimer: This is my first time using Go."

"Hello World" wasn't challenging enough for you then!

Nice work.

ukandy··on Jobber: A replacement for cron, with status-reporting and error-handling
Recovery of third party software seems to be the USP here (logging and reporting aren't hard to achieve normally).

I think I would have made a script to sit in-between, standard cron and third party software to solve the recovery problem where needed.

ukandy··on Show HN: Mediapig – Simple, affordable VPS hosting
Site looks good, but you need your business details on the site for people to take you seriously. I wouldn't deal with an unknown entity, hosting in an unknown location
ukandy··on World’s First Connected Bike Grips
I'm surprised they are using smrtgrips.bike when they own smrtgrips.com.
ukandy··on Kill Me Softly – Kill processes in a reliable manner
Sure they could, but then you would need different compiled versions for different architectures, and this is kind of OTT for the task it accomplishes as it is!
ukandy··on Kill Me Softly – Kill processes in a reliable manner
Is the functionality even needed? Doesn't take much to type..

ksm `pidof cupsd`

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