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by bvm 9y ago
I'd like to submit IBM Watson services. That was a waste of an afternoon. And then a morning. And then another afternoon.
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by bvm 10y ago
If you think about it, rapidly reusable suborbital rockets are like a physical version of the communication you describe here. It's plausible to physically be anywhere in the world (if you burn enough fuel) within 30 minutes. Ditto up
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by bvm 10y ago
That's a pretty extreme approach! It reminds me a little of my all time favourite musicians, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - who detail their process here: http://tapeop.com/interviews/85/gillian-welch-and-
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by bvm 10y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/5upft3/my_cad_...
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by bvm 10y ago
I think the term for this phenomenon is the 'normalisation of deviance'.
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by bvm 10y ago
Can you check your emails with 'OK Google'? I use my Android phone as a satnav, and it would be really helpful on the commute to get it to read me the at least the subject lines of my inbox, I can't seem to make it do anythin
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by bvm 10y ago
http://trendwave.com/asia/global-industry-4.0-will-lead-to-d... There are those that are seriously concerned about China's ability to compete, including the Chinese Government.
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by bvm 10y ago
...and cymbals? That's always my go-to tell.
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by bvm 10y ago
Have heard some arguments that the UK's (world's?) digital protocol, DAB is actually a worse experience for listeners than a decent FM station, but I'm not all that well informed on that. Quick clarification on digital versus
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by bvm 10y ago
> Traditionally, the “marketplace” has been radio, where a well-mastered song hits that sweet spot where you feel immersed in the music but not battered by it. If your song is poorly mastered, the logic goes, people won’t want to buy you
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by bvm 10y ago
Bloomberg has really gone off the deep end of the design pool. It seemed to start with those somewhat janky, but pretty nice zero-padded headline overlays on the pics, and culminated in this: http://www.bloomberg.com/feature
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by bvm 11y ago
i grew up in the UK on these. Springtime is just around the corner.
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by bvm 11y ago
The submitter's account has only submitted links from Craig Wright's blog and was created 36 days ago, but is an active participant in discussions about the recent revelations... https://news.ycombinator.com/user?i
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by bvm 11y ago
I have a touchscreen laptop, so the inertial scrolling often gets broken when sites scrolljack. That said, styling the default scrollbar (except in Firefox, where it can't be done) is a different behaviour, and whilst imho it should be
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Growing old the Silicon Valley way is a prescription for loneliness(theguardian.com)
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by bvm 11y ago
I heard a rumour they were forced into buying GNIP (which is a pretty unpleasant tech to work with) due to some uninvoiced bills on Twitter's side.
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by bvm 11y ago
Tagging on to this, I assume we can't use all of ES2015 classes with react and meteor, as the mongo bit requires mixins. Is there a fix in the works for this?
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by bvm 11y ago
so, Meteor?
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by bvm 11y ago
Spelunkers - is the reason he's not wearing a helmet down to the lack of available space?
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by bvm 11y ago
Test cricket (international matches played over five days) is a truly wonderful experience that I urge everyone to try and watch* at least once. When you try and explain that the most engaging of matches can end in a draw, after all that ti
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by bvm 11y ago
"you're looking for science -> disease -> treatment -> oncology, down the corridor"
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by bvm 11y ago
IIRC ZeroClipboard falls back to flash if you're not using a browser with the new clipboard APIs.
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by bvm 11y ago
Could someone explain or link me to how revision control worked in the very early days of the Linux kernel? I'm aware of BitKeeper, Git et al. but interested in how things worked at its outset.
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by bvm 11y ago
there's a guy in Highgate that cruises around on one of these with a mohawk and a duster billowing in the wind. He rides his in the road, a good thing too as I've seen him go at around 20mph.
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by bvm 11y ago
and Frasier...?
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by bvm 11y ago
http://www.getmdl.io/
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by bvm 11y ago
Cool idea and execution! Where are you getting the raw article data? Are you doing your own scraping or is it from a 3rd party provider? The couple of tests I did worked nicely, but it did give me stories that were a few months old, could w
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by bvm 11y ago
interesting view - what makes Bloomberg brilliant (aside from the support) is that i have, for example, an array of my portfolios that i can access from every function. So if you could create a service that took all of the information that
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by bvm 11y ago
seemed completely and utterly down in London across a good sample of clients.
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by bvm 11y ago
my mistake. apologies.

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