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olla | 8 years ago | on: Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent

Maybe they are probing the courts and setting up the price with 3 persons, with an intent to start pumping money if the case is successful. There are near 20 million Fb users in spain thus the math says there is 400k€ * 20M users = 8 000 000 000 000€ to be earned in their minds.

olla | 9 years ago | on: Is Elon Musk the next king of trucking?

Probably automated trucks will come soon, but I'd really like to see it as an intermediate step. What if we could have small private cargo modules (like Starship technologies is making), being able to hook together automatically, to make a big truck like thing, to save power when travelling long distances. This might really be the key for P2P cargo delivery.

olla | 11 years ago | on: Quantity Queries for CSS

Maybe the amount of such css trickery hints us that css is becoming outdated and is actually not exactly what we would like it to be. I might argue in this case that the result that is obtained is very much in the visuals and styling scope and has less to do with functionality (scripts). Though, the method how it is obtained, I agree, goes against good readability and is a bit hacky in concept.

olla | 11 years ago | on: Perfect colors, captured with one ultra-thin lens

From my own experience I can say it would be an enormous advantage when shooting in low light. At least for current sensors. Where I am living, for four months in winter have only limited hours of dim daylight and current phone sensors are pretty much useless. You are right about dust though and extra care has to be taken, but it seems as a small inconvenience to me compared to sub-acceptable noise levels.

olla | 11 years ago | on: Perfect colors, captured with one ultra-thin lens

Id rather say that this means the sensors can get bigger for compact cameras and phones. Currently the only thing that limits us making pocketable full frame cameras with zoomable optics is the size of optics, not the size of sensor or other electrical components. Flat optics might make full frame camera phones even possible.

olla | 11 years ago | on: New Tesla battery could power your home, and maybe the electric grid too

Yes, bulk is quite important factor too, especially on storing energy on large scale. Agreeing with the "can do a week of battery phone" on the other hand depends. The problem is that smart-phones have achieved lately their acceptable speeds with quad core (and up) processors. Resolution of screen makes less impact than the mere size of the area that has to be lit, but nobody wants to surf web through a peephole. E-ink would rescue if it could play videos and games fast. A lot of people want to do exactly that. And there are a lot of additional features we are used to keeping active (gps, wifi, ...). Turning these off will decrease the value of having a smartphone. Based on current battery sizes a week of battery would probably mean about 5 times the battery of phones now. That is not pocketable computer territory anymore.

In addition I would really like to have the phone component moved to watches (with at least 3 days battery) and leave all the rest for a pocketable computer to handle.

olla | 11 years ago | on: New Tesla battery could power your home, and maybe the electric grid too

The real blocker of going electric on everything is the capacity of rechargeable technologies and their lifetime, not some global conspiracy. Even the high price of batteries/capacitors might not be a problem if lifetime and capacity would be great. In that sense Musk might be onto something, but I think it takes a lot more than 20% improvement over current technologies for batteries to become feasible for storing electricity on large scale. If a smartphone could be done with a battery, that lasts a week and is not dead within a year in winter conditions, it probably would have been done allready.

olla | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Wrte.io – Charge for each email you get

If you have to pay for an email anyway, would You instead call or pick some other way of direct communication? Not quite sure that replacing the indirect communication, where You can procrastinate to some extent, with direct one will solve the issues it promises.

olla | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to kill all notifications in Mac OS X Yosemite?

Notifications can be silenced from System Preferences > Notifications by turning on Do Not Disturb. I have another problem with the notifications. They are displayed in the upper right corner where it constantly interferes with my actions. Does anybody know a way to move these to the lower right corner that I rarely use.

olla | 11 years ago | on: Programmer proverbs

Actually hoped to see more true, but satirical, statements like: "It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way." or "Debugging software is the practice of removing bugs. Programming is the art of putting them in." Currently seems more like criticising a lecture.

olla | 11 years ago | on: Ubuntu smartphone offers alternative to apps

That was actually the only thing i was really interested in. I guess if they would have done just that and added some text and data and image manipulation apps to the bunch that could downscale nicely to phone, it would have been a crowd magnet. I am not even expecting all features of apps to be present on mobile. Just preview would be often ok too.

olla | 11 years ago | on: One-electron universe

Ok, the time dilation makes actually sense now. So like chemical reactions depend on temperature and pressure, physical reactions (if they can be called this way) are dependant on gravity and velocity (dependance on the last I can not quite get still). By physical reactions I mean the transitions between the ground states that time is defined by.

olla | 11 years ago | on: One-electron universe

Isn't wavelength as such dependant on space? It all seems to come together as A is defined by B and B is defined by A.

olla | 11 years ago | on: One-electron universe

Every time some limit is reached in a physics equation, dilation, contraction or even moving in time is taken as a measure to rescue. It all sounds like a convenient method for explaining something we can not explain. It all comes from the fact that time is defined through speed and speed depends on space, thus time cannot describe dimensions not dependant of space.

olla | 11 years ago | on: Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke

I think we need a change in the way we look at open source software. It must not necessarily be free of charge. The real benefits of open source are often something other than being free of charge, like in this case. Maybe we need a new licence allowing charge for commercial use and giving benefits or discounts on the amount of contribution made to the project?

olla | 11 years ago | on: Dirty lens article

It proves again the basic rules for handling photo gear in hostile environment. Pick a lens that covers the needed focal distances and never change or clean it on the field, as you will risk damaging camera or decreasing the aftermarket value of your gear. If the dust on front element becomes visible on pictures, just open up the apperture.

olla | 11 years ago | on: Why are free proxies free? (2013)

Changing advertisements, to take credit for views and clicks, would be quite beneficial. This would could go un-noticed by the viewer for a long time too. I would not be surprised if a lot of these free proxy servers do just that.
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