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Good. Building up is the way to go. Here in Melbourne, >30-story apartment towers have become the norm, and it's succeeded in slowing the rise of housing prices in the inner city quite a bit. I also think it's helping to delay our transportation crisis.
Shorter ceilings are better for climate control, though. No need to heat up a bunch of air that just floats around over your head.
How do I make the dots on my "i"s into little love hearts to show how much I love the reader?
Re:It’s time for the Uber of air travel on Sunday August 02, 2015 @03:04AM (#9990032)
This is ridiculous, air travel is expensive because planes are giant expensive machines, consume a significant amount of rare fossil fuel to fly, and can only be safely flown by highly trained experts. No kind of app is going to solve any of those problems.
Re:Google’s Ad System Has Become Too Big to Control on Thursday July 09, 2015 @08:53AM (#9857523)
I use ad blockers for distracting image and popup ads, but I fairly frequently click on Google text ads in search results. When there's a product category that's very crowded, if a company is willing to pony up some money to get my attention, that's often one indicator that a particular product might be worth my time to investigate.
Seems like this article makes quite a leap from the study results to their suggestion that everyone reads paper books. Study results:

1. People reading on a screen are more likely to skim

2. Skimming reduces comprehension of the material

3. Reading on paper correlates with better reconstruction of plot

It seems like 1 and 2 taken together are as good an explanation as any for 3. Given that, I feel like it would be at least worth an experiment to see if making a conscious effort to avoid skimming would be just as effective as switching to reading on paper. If so, I think that would be a cheaper and easier solution to the issue.

Re:How I’d redesign piano sheet music on Saturday July 04, 2015 @08:59PM (#9832132)
The funny thing about talking of tabs for piano, is that sheet music is already that. By representing music on a diatonic staff, with a key signature, it's shown in a perfect format to translate it to keys on the piano, at the expense of some other kinds of instruments, vocals, and general understanding of the music, where it would be more helpful to see the music on a chromatic staff.
Re:Fly.js: New generation build system on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @08:49PM (#9809328)
"Fly is a build system for Node based in ES6 generators and promises that aims to be simple and elegant to write and extend"

If an objective is for it to be simple to write and extend, why use two shiny new features that most programmers will be unfamiliar or inexperienced with?

Re:Inverting Binary Trees Considered Harmful on Thursday June 11, 2015 @11:37PM (#9703880)
This method doesn't work well for hiring people that already have a full-time job elsewhere.
Re:Amazon launches same day delivery for Prime customers on Thursday May 28, 2015 @08:53PM (#9622111)
Now if only Australia could get same-month delivery.
Re:Firefox Hello on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @07:21PM (#8963531)
Mozilla are clearly becoming desperate to find any distinguishing factors to market Firefox. Sadly, this feels like the beginning of the end for this browser.
Re:Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX on Monday January 19, 2015 @09:04PM (#8915102)
I like the way they've written this article as if it's an extended tweet. Short and to the point.
Re:The drug revolution that no one can stop on Monday December 15, 2014 @06:50AM (#8751527)
Another good argument for focusing on harm minimization over prohibition.
What a scam. The airports should be providing car access as a service to their customers, not double dipping and charging drivers for the privilege of driving over their land.
Seems like a pretty good idea. It's kinda weird that no such technology exists for cars actually.
Re:Escher: A language for programming in metaphors on Saturday July 19, 2014 @11:46AM (#8057772)
I don't really know enough about the maths here to interpret the background to this project, but going on the way it's written, I'm concerned the author may be suffering from schizophrenia. I'd recommend seeking advice from a mental health professional.
Re:King.com, Maker of Candy Crush, files for IPO on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @10:54PM (#7261703)
"The company generates revenue by selling virtual items to a small fraction of its players who wish to enhance their playing experience" should read "The company generates revenue by psychologically manipulating players into spending money in order to progress through the game"
Re:Why you should move that button 3px to the left on Sunday February 16, 2014 @04:38PM (#7249439)
I think this is often a problem of dividing responsibilities.

In order to turn a design into correct CSS, the size and position of each element needs to be measured precisely. If the Photoshop-using designer can't or won't do this themselves, and send through clearly specified requirements, it falls to devs who probably aren't Photoshop experts, don't know what the designer was thinking, and might not even have Photoshop.

A nice side effect of having clear requirements is that everyone in the team can easily refer back to them to spot design bugs, not just the designer.

Re:Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles on Thursday November 28, 2013 @09:51PM (#6817640)
- My boss decided to add a new syntactic feature to PHP
Re:Do We Live in the Matrix? on Thursday November 28, 2013 @01:36AM (#6813353)
The problem with studying metaphysics is that it's quite hard to do experiments.
Re:Show HN: Google Glass + Tesla Model S = GlassTesla on Monday July 01, 2013 @06:42PM (#5974157)
If you have that much money, why not just get your butler to do it for you.
Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @06:15PM (#5715383)
So now Facebook chat, which partially supports XMPP, is the most open of the widely used IM networks. There's a thing.