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badragon··on Google’s Self-Driving Cars Are Going to Change Everything
The laser guidance system costs $70K by itself. http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/consumer&i...

It makes sense on long haul trucking but it is going to have to get a LOT cheaper before it goes on passenger cars. 10+ yrs is my guess before you see it on luxury cars. Same as Tesla.

People who can afford a driver will replace them with Google Bots who won't sell their story to People.

badragon··on Show HN: Olympics Ranking Adjusted by Population (Evening Project)
china sent 380. GB is the host country. It gets automatic entries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics#Sorted_by_...
badragon··on Show HN: Olympics Ranking Adjusted by Population (Evening Project)
How about adjusting by the number of Olympians per country?
badragon··on Speak.js Demo
GPL V3 so I would not take a chance with it.
badragon··on Show HN: Your online WYSIWYG editor is broken
I have no problem paying for good software. The cost seems in the ballpark if it had all the features I need.

I would want the ability to add different classes other than just h1, h2.

Most of my projects will be using twitter bootstrap or jquery UI so it has to integrate well.

The link popup does not have the ability to add a target. For UGC, I would like the ability to force a target and add google analytics code.

badragon··on F1 - The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business
It would be nice to add this to App Engine so people outside Google could try it. There is an issue on Google Code for it.
badragon··on Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
I would buy a Ubuntu laptop. I feel like a fool that I spent money on a MacBook Pro. I was too lazy to get a Linux laptop working.
badragon··on Meteor meets NoGPL
Just give me a price. I don't want to discuss pricing.
badragon··on Javascript databases may not scale
Sounds like a simple scaling issue
badragon··on Why do programmers prefer Python over Ruby?
When I was starting learning Python, I considered Ruby. At the time, Ruby was Active Record only. Active Record does not let you use SQL procedures without defeating the whole purpose of Rails. For me, it meant that Rails was only good for toy CRUD apps.
badragon··on Stuck in snowdrift... what would you have done?
I would not have let my cellphone die. Charging it off the car should keep it alive for days.
badragon··on GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
Maybe somebody with TV talent should do a kickstarter?
badragon··on GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
We should go after Lamar Smith. How do I donate to an opponent or action committee that will run embarrassing ads questioning his intelligence?
badragon··on OnStar Begins Spying On Customers’ GPS Location For Profit
That is why I would never consider buying a GM car
badragon··on Ask HN: Best Python Framework for Google App Engine?
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