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You mean a CarlyRaeJepsen monad? A "Call Me Maybe?"

HN user 'feadog' wonders if your username is a trad reference or an early music reference.

sidenote, sometimes this does happen, and it almost always is full of the most comically hateful people: see voat I'd feel much better if reddit and twitter were even handed with t…

great accommodations all over this heavily-touristed island for €35-55/night. Used to be about half that pre-Euro!

Staying in AirBnB I don't feel safe at all and 80% of the AirBnB's I stayed had one problem or the other. This is almost the direct opposite of my own experience.

web-scraping and the like always seemed like a problem that could be done fairly elegantly with distributed systems. Elaborate?

base 85 also has the interesting property that 4 original bytes fit in 5 encoded bytes. Still useful for Javascript, as the bit shift operators work on 32 bit "registers".

I wrote a base 92 encoder for the Javascript game I'm working on: http://www.emergencevector.com/ It's pretty easy to write the decode for the 0-91 integer in Javascript. if (ch ==…

I beg to differ. It's a very fun to drive retro stylish car! (I'm an owner.)

Hydrogen powered cargo ships have already been made as well. However, I'm not sure if hydrogen generation on board ships has been explored yet. Who knows... it may be possible for …

You can already buy a portable box that lets you combine the power from two different circuits that are out of phase with each other, to get twice the power. I saw a post by a Tesl…

Practically everyone can plug in their car at night, and with nothing more sophisticated than a $10 outlet timer, fuel up the fleet no problem. Even that expense should disappear. …

Something that's a standing desk/tilted drafting desk form factor combined with good palm/elbow/forearm recognition would immediately address the "gorilla arm" problem with such in…

Anyone in the East Bay?

Some folks at Microsoft were trying to circumvent this with Singularity OS being based on something like CLR. Then everything could dynamically interoperate with everything on a pr…

I've been looking for something like the game that is described in the post for awhile. The kind of complexity that comes out of having N different damage types and M arbitrary, in…

So they could implement SpaceWar on the PDP-11.

I think there are cynical claims of police overreach and actual police overreach in Oakland, CA. I think cameras would help with both of these.