aaronmoodie

This is such great news. Instant upgrade.

Not only are older solar panels recyclable, but efficiency gains in panel construction mean that multiple newer panels can be created with the resources from older panels.

This is great. For me, visually representing this data always has more impact.

If you’ve not read it, I recommend Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. https://www.oliverburkeman.com/books

And I just listened to this episode of Hidden Brain the other day which has a similar theme. https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/the-best-years-of-your-life/

Really great keyboard, but I don't agree with the decision to replace San Fransisco with Roboto. The weight and position of the type is off on the keys, and it makes the keyboard feel less native than it should.

It's disappointing that desalinization has taken precedent over recycling water. There have been many developments in this area –including the one Bill Gates has been supporting [1] – yet despite being the more cost effective option, people can't get over the idea of drinking water that was poop.

[1] http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Omniprocessor-From-Poo...

"The truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense." ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

the Yify fork is gone as well. https://github.com/Yify/popcorn-app

Or any other new music startup for that matter. I agree, this is a little disconcerting.

>> "Overall I think they have two things up on everyone else: design and playlists. On Spotify and Rdio finding good playlists is difficult. Spotify has been getting better at this but it isn't great yet. Beats seems to have spent a lot of time crafting A LOT of really great playlists and they seem to be where I'm spending most of my time. The human curation thing seems to have worked."

Totally agree. Beats has taken the best of both of Rdio and Spotify, and along with the human curation, built a pretty solid product.

The web interface leaves a lot to be desired at this point, but looking forward to seeing what they come up with here.

I've been giving it a run through this morning. Haven't gotten too far in, but I'd already say Spotify and Rdio have some serious competition on their hands.

The curation is where this service really excels, also the UI is pretty tight.

I've heard bad things about the headphones, so never tried them.

Really great to see this finally available, not only for the streaming service, but because at this point Google seems to be the only one dealing with music lockers the right way.

I've been using Google Music as a backup of my library for quite some time, but recently have found using it as my primary player much more convenient that loading iTunes and dealing with iTunes Match, which IMO, is broken. (there is a side story her about moving countries, but that's for another time).

Would love to see a Rdio/Spotify-esque native application as well, but that might be asking a little too much.

EDIT: The lack of a online/offline music toggle is really disappointing.

Sketch has multiple pages support, and symbols/reusable elements are to be included in v3

I've been using Sketch exclusively for the better part of a year, and it's not just a better tool for designing web and mobile UIs, it's a real pleasure to use.

There are still quite a few bugs, but even with those, the Sketch workflow trumps Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks. Version 3 should also address most of these, and is supposed to include support for symbols as well.

I'd love an invite if you still have any.

Only someone with no idea of, or appreciation for the rapid rate of technological advancement would deem a 1GB connection unnecessary.

The sad thing is that this reflects the current thinking of politicians (Especially in Australia) I wouldn't actually be surprised if this was published in the SMH to help undermine public opinion of the national broadband network currently being rolled out here.

I'm not sure if this is by the same photographer, but the image used in the Sky Survey app is pretty incredible as well. http://skysurvey.org

I'm really looking forward to being able to combine detailed visuals like these with the rift 3d headset or like.

boom!

Bottle is great, not sure if this is really news though?

The amazing thing about the amount of discoveries to have been made with Kepler, is that our ability to observe the Universe is only limited by our technology. Imagining what we will be able to see and discover with the next generation of telescopes makes me giddy.

I think the quote is "good artists borrow, great artists steal".

Thanks for the list. A friend recently did one as well, which was a bit more general, though has some good tips.

http://makenosound.com/2012/01/06/podcasts-worth-my-time.htm...

A fellow Melbournite has done something similar with stellar.js http://markdalgleish.com/projects/stellar.js

The iOS demo is especially awesome.

"Having the Simpsons is a privilege, not a right"

A $120+ a month privilege? If I was paying that much for TV, I'd be expecting to watch what I want when I want.

This was party the reason for posting about it in the first place, but yes, I will be talking about what and why I'm doing this to my friends and peers. A recent study showed something like 70% of the Australian population have downloaded films and TV illegally, though I'd say that the majority of this is due to the fact that we get things, especially TV series, months after the US. So it's more from a lack of patience than not wanting to pay.

Thanks, I'll check this out.

Funding a film like a start-up is a good short term solution. Sure, PG asked for a model for the future, but that isn't going to happen overnight. Something like this actually could.

I did some work in 2011 with a number of local bands, one of which has quite a big international following. This band recorded and produced their latest album themselves, yet despite this, still went to the major labels to release the album. I asked why they would do this since they own the copyright to their work and have a large enough following to get the coverage? Because the major labels still have the promotional might to reach more people. This was pretty much the only reason.

It was really interesting having an insight to the process as the band went along. I think I was most shocked at just how behind and locked in tradition the major labels really are. This was most evident in the actual release of the album. As I've mentioned, this band had recorded, produced and had artwork done when talks began. Despite this, the labels wanted to wait 4 months, 4 MONTHS, before releasing the album. Obviously, you can imagined what happend. The album ended up on torrent sites 2 months before it was released.

It's exactly this sort of unwillingness to change and adapt that has been undoing the major labels. The whole point of a digital file is that is can be distributed the second is it ready. If a digital version of the album had have been made available immediately, I sure a lot of fans would have bought it straight out. Instead, they get impatient and use a torrent site resulting in a loss of sales.

The main thing I took away form the whole experience is where we need to focus in order to remove these fools from the game. The music industry no longer has room for three players. Where once it was the band, label and fans, now it's just the bands and the fans. Major labels are only still relevant because they can offer something that the current suite of online tools can't, publicity. Work out a way to crowd source that, and bands will have no desire, or need, to approach a major label.

Just as a farmers market fosters and nurtures the relationship between producer and consumer, so to does the music industry need such a 'market' to foster direct relations between band and fan.

I only have a couple of personal projects, which are still under way, and there is definitely room to add another one.

Thanks for the feedback though, I guess my hobby would be 'tinkering' so putting it that way, no I wouldn't feel bad enjoying my hobby instead of studying ... which is still tinkering in a way.

I think the alpha stage option is a good point. Get things moving asap with Google/Posterous Groups, and then turn some attention to a custom site including the desired features.

At this point, I'd agree with the 'off the shelf' solution that most are supporting here. Either starting with something like Reddit's code base, as suggested, or even the Google groups option could be a good start initially.

If the need/desire to roll your own becomes an issue, Kickstarter could be a good way to look at funding this, seeing as there are already 400+ people wanting to see this happen, who I'm sure would all happily pitch in.

Firebug was the only thing keeping me in Firefox for a while. The initial dev tools that Webkit came with were ok, but nothing on Firebug.

Chrome dev tools have come a long way though. I use Chrome as my main browser now for both surfing and dev, and although I miss the snappiness of Firebug, Chrome's dev tools are just as good, if not better.