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First thought: Why are there no references anywhere? Second thought: Must be because it's so difficult to put links in a webpage.

this was my first thought and it's driving me nuts. It's just a bunch of floating assertions.

USB was defacto standard for data transfer, especially on PCs, but the /connector/ on the phone side was not at all standards compliant or uniform across makes and models, and up u…

CANBUS +1. Would love to nudge the ardunio-ish end of the IoT community in that direction.

I find it notable that this article entirely ignores the EU's Common Electrical Power Supply law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_External_Power_Supply ), which effectively ma…

possible, I'm much less sure about my use of passed versus past here then the use of which instead of that in the title. That said, I had thought 'get' did not indicate motion acro…

I thought you were right for a second, but I'm fairly certain that 'passed' is what I meant. It's the past tense of pass, and thus the correct word. see http://www.grammar-monster.…

I cannot get passed the title. Unless the only cold emails the author sent were the ones that got the meetings, s/which/that. (Actually I did read the article, and in it she says "…

“The raw height data is stored in metres and must be scaled down to fit within the 256 block height limit in Minecraft. A maximum height of 2 500 metres was chosen, which means Ben…

I mean, this http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/the-re... was not comedy and it happend all of a few days ago.

tl;dr - nothing on the web is private.

It's perhaps worth mentioning that there's a pro-cyclist campaign around this issue that's been going for a few years (full disclosure, I have one of their jerseys) http://ipayroad…

I believe this headline is a very clear example of Betteridge's law of headlines[1], since the answer is 'No'. I'll also just add that road surface wear and tear is to a significan…

A bit of context, these bins tracked wifi enabled devices as they passed by for various targeted marketing things. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/londons-smart-bins-track-4m-...

duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5933422