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Good article. It reminds me of the stories Wozniak would tell about his chip reduction techniques back when microchips were really expensive.

I guess it depends on the game. Starcraft 1 "Broodwars" is pretty cheap, but only super-serious gamers play it.

Wow, that's already a huge endorsement.

Probably because it leverages the security built into bluetooth.

Heroku is great for clients though. When I was a freelancer, I built these apps for other companies that assumed that I would do the admin & hosting. Heroku is great way to just "t…

Paypal is ancient. It's likely they developed their web framework before any open source java web frameworks became popular. Paypal existed around 1998, Java Struts 1.0 came out in…

This reminds me of a blog post I wrote a year ago about proxy technology: http://www.deanmao.com/2012/08/28/modify-a-site-you-dont-own... I did it the same way -- parse & rewrite j…

The copenhagen wheel looks pretty cool. Too bad nobody can buy it. I guess those copenhagen people can put whatever they want on their press release since they will probably never …

Seems like it's a good pre-filter. The designers who do know Jekyll are likely to be pretty good and well rounded. If they only required HTML, you might end up with a bunch of guys…

Right, but libraries consist of many other things, including ORM or testing suites. There aren't many great ORM libraries written in C, and you need the test suite to work in lua b…

having written a fair amount of lua code, there aren't many libraries out there. Their npm equivalent is called 'luarocks'. To give you an idea of how old the libraries are: many o…

hopefully there is a documented process so that one doesn't have to make a blog article to post on HN to get this stuff resolved.

Similar experience here as well, but it's eons better than linux on laptops. Just getting linux to support your laptop's video card for multi-monitor displays is a complicated beas…

Nice. Can you send me $1 so I can be accelerated into the beta? :-)

If you want to extract the most out of your batteries, wouldn't you use a boosting reg so can extract every last bit? I think for most projects, the uC uses far less power than the…

I think the core argument of the blog post is to use a voltage regulator with a low quiescent current. It doesn't really matter what uC you're using since it's only turned on every…

is it a permanent install?

weren't some of the security holes found in the json & yaml libraries? Those weren't rails specific and could have just as easily happened in a Sinatra-like framework too.

The daughters spoke a language distorted by a lifetime of isolation. "When the sisters talked to each other, it sounded like a slow, blurred cooing." It's interesting how isolation…

It looks like it's trying to be a better datasheetarchive.com, which is definitely nice to have because those sites are utter crap. However, I guess these guys will have to play ca…

this was posted an hour ago, pg is probably in bed already.

did he have a history of depression? perhaps it was simply due to stress or pressure? The thought of spending the next 35 years in prison for downloading documents can be pretty pa…

This feels like spam, but anyway I actually have these. They don't work as advertised sadly. I put a temp sensor on the cup and the temperature curve didn't look any different than…