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skelsey··on Seriously, we don’t need smartphone-controlled candles
Oh cool, a remote igniter.
skelsey··on Plasma wings could change the way airplanes are designed and flown
Yes it is correct. Lift always creates drag. You can think of drag as the work necessary to gain lift. When lift is generated, it produced what is called induced drag[0]. Induced drag and parasitic drag, which is the drag generated from the aircraft structure itself, are where all the energy goes in unaccelerted flight.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-induced_drag

skelsey··on Hey Android, why no love for UTC?
Please don't let this be the reason you don't switch to Android. I think this is a stupid bug to exist, but it hardly affects most people.
skelsey··on The Life and Death of Amazon Is the Life and Death of Seattle
Not to mention every large tech company has a presence here.
skelsey··on IMAX’s absurd attempt to censor Ars
It's ironic that in an article documenting attempted censorship, I have to squint to read this legitimate comment because people think that disagreeing with someone gives them the right to censor them.
skelsey··on Show HN: Translate text through random languages, 35 times
Might be an interesting way to find errors in translation software.
skelsey··on Yahoo and Alibaba, Joined at the Balance Sheet
A buyback also raises the value of options, while a dividend is not paid to option holders.
skelsey··on 24-Bit vs. 16-Bit Audio Test – Part II: Results and Conclusions
Yeah, if you are going to spend money, spend it on the reproduction side. A nice set of speakers will make you feel like you've never heard a song before.
skelsey··on Gitignore.io – .gitignore templates for OSes, languages, and IDEs
What is with the trend to not check project files into source control? This project could be interesting, but garbage in, garbage out.

  ## File-based project format
  *.ipr
  *.iws
skelsey··on Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestion Myth
No one in the US wants to watch 480 video.
skelsey··on The Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing
I don't think these are intended for power-amplification purposes.
skelsey··on Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozilla
This is what tabs are for.
skelsey··on Bezier Curves and Type Design: A Tutorial
And please don't fck with my back shortcut.
skelsey··on When Hitting ‘Find My iPhone’ Takes You to a Thief’s Doorstep
And then you reported him to the local taxi commission, right?
skelsey··on Is the Toilet Free?
A queue would only work if everyone used this system. Unfortunately, you will always have visitors or people who don't want to participate.
skelsey··on How the Feds Can Take Even Legally Earned Bitcoins
Are you saying that a "former" regulator is capable of "looking the other way"?
skelsey··on Why I'm Done With Social Media Buttons
Doesn't Facebook timeline review prevent this?
skelsey··on Ask HN: Is this a stupid business idea?
Have you read REAMDE?
skelsey··on Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK
Your friends with Android phones can't cast to Airplay, but they can cast to Chromecast.
skelsey··on My Amazon interview experience
I can think of a likely potential scenario: There are some reservations, maybe they are first offering the position to someone else and are waiting to see if they accept, or they want to bring you back in for more interviews to make sure. They wait too long to talk to you, and now they feel guilty and awkward talking to you at all. So they just stop.
skelsey··on Fukushima radiation hits San Francisco (Dec 2013)
A better title would be "This thing I don't understand that measures stuff I also don't understand beeps at me when I am at the beach."
skelsey··on Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To Developers To Date
For various reasons, ads can not be easily cached.
skelsey··on 61.5% of Web Traffic Is Not Human
I'm pretty sure that is built into the price.
skelsey··on Paul Graham Shares Number of Y Combinator Companies Sold or Valued at Over $40M
The chart is in fact for the year of founding, not sale. For 2013 it would be companies founded and sold in the same year, and I would expect that to be rare.
skelsey··on Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame
http://imgur.com/Ttp553B
skelsey··on Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame
Go here: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/sim-card. Check your device, and once you know which SIM type you need, click the "Add to Cart" under "Phone".

I literally just did this, so the timing of this post is nice. Even more nice is that they are waiving the $10 SIM card fee right now.

You buy the actual plan after you get the SIM and activate it. I don't know what they charge for activation, if at all.

skelsey··on Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame
This is one reason I'm always surprised people buy anything other than a Nexus device. You have a new phone, and it's running an OS that's already a year old.
skelsey··on Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame
They don't need to. You can get an unlimited data + 100 minute no contract plan from t-mobile for $30/month.
skelsey··on IntelliJ IDEA 13 is Released
IMO, Android Studio is still far behind IDEA 12. There are some new features in AS, but IDEA is far more stable.
skelsey··on Is It O.K. to Kill Cyclists?
> I can't remember the last time a bicycle did it (and in the few cases I saw it...
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