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by lerouxb 6d ago
It is pretty obvious to me that our industry will become regulated where you have to have a formal education, a multi-year internship and then certification that has legal requirements to keep and that it will be pushed for by our peers. TH
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by lerouxb 10y ago
100% free: sure. 1000% more powerful: debatable at best.
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by lerouxb 11y ago
You stole my idea for "solving" the middle east!
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by lerouxb 11y ago
^THIS The difference in user experience between HTML apps that don't even _try_ to cache anything locally vs mobile apps that sync in the background and cache things locally is night and day and it just gets bigger and bigger as your b
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by lerouxb 11y ago
I agree 100% with your general sentiment, but just to nitpick: You would have to really cherry pick the worst case possible scenario to be paying R1 per GB and even then R1024 is $82.44. Contracts come with data included, all the networks h
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by lerouxb 11y ago
I still really want to get a few bags full of Zimbabwean notes and use it to wallpaper a room one day. You'd think that would be easy living in a country right next to them..
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by lerouxb 11y ago
As opposed to 10*100GiB that can be uploaded over a 56.6K modem, right? ;)
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by lerouxb 11y ago
I'm pretty convinced that self driving cars can fix this. Reaction times will be much faster and they can network together to spread out the braking and acceleration. Possibly even merging at high speed.
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by lerouxb 11y ago
Feels like we're finally living in the future.
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by lerouxb 11y ago
Same thing applies to any content type. Images, CSS, video support, etc. Why pick on JS specifically?
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by lerouxb 11y ago
There is a LOT of lithium in the world and that's just near the surface - you can always dig down. But at that scale you don't have to use lithium anyway. When it comes to grid or off-grid storage, you don't need the best ene
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by lerouxb 11y ago
I think we're lucky in Cape Town, yes. "Maintenance festival" coming up, though! http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/79d21000481a5710803fc078423ca9a... I've actually been looking into playing with som
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by lerouxb 11y ago
I'm really interested in how much this will cost. In South Africa we're having rolling blackouts called "load shedding" because we don't have enough power. Exactly why is a long and obviously controversial story, bu
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by lerouxb 11y ago
The wikipedia article makes it look like the design was inherently flawed. Entirely possible that venture capital was (at least subjectively) allocated badly AND this project shouldn't have received more funding anyway.
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by lerouxb 11y ago
You mean there's a chance that this might render him immortal?
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by lerouxb 11y ago
Are we talking about water or costs?
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by lerouxb 11y ago
"The Tesla Gigafactory", "A battery factory".
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by lerouxb 11y ago
Solar is cheaper per watt in many parts of the world, assuming you don't care when you get those watts. You can build more solar capacity than what's needed during daylight hours in which case you can't sell the energy due to
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by lerouxb 11y ago
Maybe for base load, but desalination can run intermittently during sunlit hours only. You only have to stay ahead on average..
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by lerouxb 12y ago
Maybe consider a different currency? The USD is really strong at the moment, causing the price to be really expensive for most countries.
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by lerouxb 12y ago
It isn't a replacement for Grunt/Gulp. It is a replacement for browserify or perhaps require.js. It builds your javascript and css (and images!) into one or more bundles which does overlap with what people often use grunt for. In
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by lerouxb 12y ago
Looks like he just traded grunt/gulp for browserify which is also a build tool with lots and lots of configuration and plugins and I'd rather be using webpack in that category. Just switch to webpack and you don't have to ben
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by lerouxb 12y ago
If I could vote you up 10000 times, I would.
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by lerouxb 12y ago
Have you read anything about what's been happening at Microsoft? I don't think that private organisations are necessarily better.
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Show HN: A CSS font-feature-settings tester(thisarmy.github.com)
4 points by lerouxb 12y ago|0 comments
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by lerouxb 12y ago
Here's a direct link to the preview it kicks out: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/thisarmy/fo... The fonts link straight to Google's Specimen pages and the features link to Mic
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Supported variants and OpenType features for each Google Font(github.com)
3 points by lerouxb 12y ago|1 comments
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by lerouxb 12y ago
It can't really be even, though. Otherwise how did all the fossil fuels form? Over geological time periods the co2 and o2 levels vary greatly. Maybe if not for mankind the atmosphere would actually have eventually ended up co2-poor ove
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by lerouxb 12y ago
Also: where was all the carbon hundreds of millions of years ago before it was turned into fossil fuels? I guess "steady state" is a relative term when you get to long time periods. Your ever-growing compost pile might be analogou
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by lerouxb 12y ago
Hilarious local TV footage from 1996 about what these "hacker kids" are getting up to at night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzKHa3BYemI

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