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Spines11··on Tesla Roadster reaches the end of the line
Tesla's next car, a sedan, will cost $58,000. What is it that makes electric cars so expensive? I don't know much about cars, but I thought electric cars had fewer parts than a gas car. Is it just that the parts for electric cars haven't reached economies of scale yet?
Spines11··on Show HN: My project PocketLoot (direct link)
I like the fact that I can start using it without having to sign up, and that you let me create an account later if I want to save my data.

I'm not entirely sure what I would use this for though. It seems like I have to constantly update your site with the amount of money I spend, and that is a lot of work just to be able to have a daily budget calculated for me.

I use mint.com, and I don't have to enter anything, everything is just automatically pulled from my credit cards and bank accounts. They let me set monthly budgets for different categories of spending, and let me see if I am on track for my budget or if I need to reduce my spending to meet the budget.

Spines11··on Phil Harrison: "Apple will be the games industry"
I think it's very possible that Apple could become the casual games industry. I don't think they will have as big of an impact on the hardcore gaming market though.
Spines11··on Show HN: Ducksboard, from nothing to private beta in four months
Looks good, how many people do you have working on it?
Spines11··on Java.next() - The Groovy Programming Language
I've been building the web app I'm working on completely in Groovy, and running it on Google App Engine. I'm quite happy with my choice to switch over to Groovy from Java. There are 3 main features of Groovy that greatly speed up my productivity as compared to coding with Java.

1. Closures - items.find { it.name == 'groovy' } is much easier than looping.

2. Language support for collections - Maps can be declared like: [key:'value'], and lists can be declared like: [1,2,3].

3. Easier handling of nulls - The "Elvis Operator" can be used to specify defaults like: (item ?: "defaultvalue") and the safe navigation operator will return null rather than throwing a NullPointerException when doing something like this: (item?.address?.street).

Spines11··on Ask HN: Looking for feedback on my spare time project, Booklends.com
In Chrome, on your sign up and log in pages, the https has a red slash through it warning that the page contains unencrypted resources.
Spines11··on Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas
The background image is causing scrolling lag in Chrome. I turned the background image off and it fixed the problem.
Spines11··on What if this is as good as it gets?
Hopefully, in time, people would end up just installing Firefox or Chrome.
Spines11··on Apple takes 30%, Amazon took 70%
Thirty percent may be okay for books, but companies selling music like Rhapsody probably don't even have profit margins of thirty percent.
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