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by bb101 11y ago
Good to know this is how Nest operates. I will be steering clear of their devices in the future.
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by bb101 11y ago
I don't get it. Cooper's stay of execution was granted in 2004, most probably due to facts that became known at the time. This article was published in 2016, and he is still in prison - for the same crime? Twelve years have passed
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BMW, Audi and Toyota cars can be unlocked and started with hacked radios(telegraph.co.uk)
154 points by bb101 11y ago|115 comments
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by bb101 11y ago
Interesting application of reputation to market-based economies. Doctorow's article won't be a surprise to anyone who lived behind the Iron Curtain during socialism. The State held information on every citizen, and all official tr
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by bb101 11y ago
Istanbul is as European as Shanghai is American. Turkey is not part of Europe. Whereas other metropolitan areas that are _very_ European are simply left out: Moscow, St Petersburg & Belgrade.
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by bb101 11y ago
The typeface is the voice of the text. It also marries the frivolous world of design with the serious world of content, lending design the validity it craves.
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by bb101 11y ago
Glad someone else noticed that they hobbled Pages '13. You used to be able to link text boxes in Pages '09 and they removed that feature, and countless others in order to "align" the functionality with their inferior iOS
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by bb101 11y ago
Pretty good. The only countries that seem to be doing the same today are North Korea and, to some extent, ISIS. Neither are from our culture so our ability to exert change is limited.
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by bb101 11y ago
I wear my grandfather's old watch back from the 1960s. The first thing I do when I get up is wind it up and put it on. Every two weeks or so I might adjust the minute hand back or forwards a few minutes to sync it with the real time. N
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by bb101 11y ago
Does anyone else get an icky feeling from looking at cartoons from a late-1940s German newspaper? Entertainment for people of a country that only 5 years ago at the time was ushering millions into forced labor and gas chambers.
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by bb101 11y ago
I think many people in the UK admire the Swiss and Norwegian models of participating in the "European project". The country retains sovereignty and only implements laws that suit its citizens. I have to say I am surprised by your
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by bb101 11y ago
Similar events happened in London in the mid-19th century. University College London (UCL), now one of the best colleges in the University of London, was founded to allow students entry through non-religious means. Consequently, it was the
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by bb101 11y ago
I've seen this a lot with our junior developers who are just out of college. My take on it is that the oversharing generation is encouraged to "put something out there" and make it sound authoritative. Then it is discussed an
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by bb101 11y ago
I disagree with doing away with the Warning log level. It's very useful for errors that don't negatively impair the function of a program, yet should be captured. For example, converting a user input to an integer. You can provide
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Luxury Bomb Shelters(vice.com)
13 points by bb101 11y ago|4 comments
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by bb101 11y ago
Well, except that most of England voted for the Conservatives in the election just a few months ago. They are hugely, yet quietly, supported and popular in any area of Britain that isn't deprived. Manchester, Bradford, Luton and their
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by bb101 11y ago
The irony is that in Conservative circles, the BBC is criticised for devoting too much airtime to Corbyn and his band of swampies, who are woefully unpopular outside the vegetarian dreadlocked middle-class Islington set. Seems like the BBC
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by bb101 11y ago
Thanks for clarifying. Happy to see SVG will be included, especially after so many years of IE8- not supporting it.
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by bb101 11y ago
The spec: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/spec/amp-h... SVG tags are banned. Isn't this taking the web a little backwards, seeing as interactive components like D3.js won&#x27
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by bb101 11y ago
When Blackberry 10 handsets boot up, they spend a few seconds verifying the security of the software. Since the handsets are practically impossible to root, I'm guessing any alterations would be flagged up.
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by bb101 11y ago
Amazon can probably control provisioning through their Amazon Appstore (which is Android-only).
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by bb101 11y ago
Externalizing the parking fines. Clever.
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by bb101 13y ago
I've had always had good experiences with Hetzner, a few times even speaking by phone to an English-speaking technician running around the data center. Which providers would you consider better whilst providing similar value?