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by leonroy 10y ago
I have a DC02 (1995) and that's still working. Only thing that ever broke was the handle which cracked with time, Dyson sent us a replacement for about £15. Also have a DC25 (2009) and that's been great too. Nothing broken or crac
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by leonroy 10y ago
> - The Uber app Yes! Fast, intuitive, responsive and rock solid. Uber might be a very, very sketchy company but man have they engineered and designed a great UX - I can't think of any other iPhone app with the same level of '
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by leonroy 10y ago
* Blendtec Blender - blew my first pay cheque on one nearly 10 years ago and it still looks and works good as new. Absolutely superb design and construction. * AGA Oven - I don't own one, but my parents do and growing up this thing was
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by leonroy 10y ago
I think the issue might more be related to yields and distribution. Even when AMD were outpacing Intel (many years back) they struggled to meet demand and manufacture enough chips. There was a great article back then too about why Apple and
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by leonroy 10y ago
Having done a lot of work with financial firms in the past, I found that they're incredibly wary of any agency having access to any of their data. As a consequence any telephony or messaging product we built had to have a self host
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by leonroy 10y ago
I'm actually inclined to take this fairly seriously. I personally run a 36U rack of servers in my basement for learning and hosting for my business. It gets toasty enough that the basement temperature hovers around 30-35C. On cold days
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by leonroy 10y ago
Heheh, amen. Between Nigel Farage and Donald Trump's bloody tweets getting front page coverage in the papers it's becoming increasingly hard to detox from Twitter!
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by leonroy 10y ago
ServeTheHome surveyed a bunch of affected vendors to get some more information on the issue: https://www.servethehome.com/intel-atom-c2000-series-bug-qui... And some technical specifics behind the problem: https:/&#x2
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by leonroy 10y ago
sigh The perils of maintaining my own data center in the basement for 'fun' are coming to haunt me. I have 2x C2758 Supermicro boxes running core routing services and a Synology RS2416+ for storage - all on the affected CPU list
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by leonroy 10y ago
Wondering the same thing myself. In the U.K. I can attest to the quality of The Guardian although it does get a little emotionally charged - particularly its editorials - excellent paper otherwise. The Financial Times is another excellent p
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by leonroy 10y ago
I remember the furore when Intel introduced a unique CPU identifier in the Pentium 3. Now they have a microprocessor and OS running as a computer subsystem on every Intel server and laptop which is able to do pretty much what it likes with
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by leonroy 10y ago
XMPP is still pretty relevant in the server to server space and in large companies requiring a scalable API which offers async, full duplex comms over a single socket connection and offers libraries and message brokers in pretty much every
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by leonroy 10y ago
Finding different batches can be difficult, especially if like most companies you buy your kit from one or two approved vendors. You often hear the trope 'don't mix different disk brands in RAID' wondering if anyone knows if
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by leonroy 10y ago
Probably would be comparable to an AppleTV if Apple did indeed make such a thing.
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by leonroy 10y ago
Whilst this was a big blunder, the Apple Maps project was an absolutely enormous undertaking. The Google Maps app itself had an almost 10 years head start, beginning life in 2003 at a startup which Google purchased. I think it's impres
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by leonroy 10y ago
To be fair Jobs seemed to be a big fan of skeumorphism too - the leather stitching on the Calendar.app was supposedly modelled on Jobs's Learjet so it can't all be attributed to Forstall.
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by leonroy 10y ago
I've been a team lead and head geek for a small software company for a good number of years. I'd say that these questions matter a lot more than you'd think. Using the wrong data structure or a data structure in the wrong sce
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by leonroy 10y ago
> those who...deliver a great product versus those whose primary motivation is publishing Interesting quote. Federighi seems a tad condescending - in that producing great products and producing publications are mutually exclusive. Whilst
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by leonroy 10y ago
Looking at my old receipts the discount for college students in the UK at least was approx 14% on Macs.
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by leonroy 10y ago
Seems a logical step for SpaceX. One of the biggest challenges facing Mars colonization would be internet connectivity over such tremendous distances. A super cheap (relatively) satellite mesh network would be just the thing to handle Earth
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by leonroy 10y ago
Folks felt much the same in the CompuServe, AOL and MSN days where the aforementioned big wigs had a complete monopoly on what most people saw online. In fact during the 90s it really felt like there was no technological future possible bey
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by leonroy 10y ago
Not hugely true. Blair's government improved the NHS and vastly improved the mess with Railtrack and decades of Tory underfunding of the railways. They were more right wing than the proceeding labor administration which was what 1979?
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by leonroy 10y ago
John Oliver clearly has a political leaning but I don't believe he states anything untrue as fact.
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by leonroy 10y ago
Whilst the Magsafe port has saved my bacon when tripping on a power cord its second variant Magsafe 2 has proved to be a tremendous headache. On my 2015 Macbook Pro the port seems pretty finicky and requires fiddling with to get it to light
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by leonroy 10y ago
There's an old story in Venice of a famous biscotti which the Venetians perfected. It was nutritious, would last for years (handy for those long voyages at sea) and was reputedly very tasty. The recipe was jealously guarded by a single
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by leonroy 10y ago
These photographs appear in an outstanding book 'Lost London, 1870-1945' by Philip Davies. I bought a copy the week it came out at RRP of $50 odd. It's since dropped to less than $20 on Amazon US and UK. Well worth it up if y
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by leonroy 10y ago
> So, it's not a surprise that our needs are cast aside in the grander business scheme of capturing wider audience by casting a wider net. They just canned their cheapest notebook, the Macbook Air 11" and bumped the price on th
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by leonroy 10y ago
This'll sound like a cop out but it really depends. Are you going into academia? If so it takes years of specialization to get good enough to make a meaningful contribution in the form of innovative and good quality research. Are you p
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by leonroy 10y ago
> The problem is that it's not really that big a market. I considered that too, that the market might be too small. Dell tried themselves to crack this market with some exquisite kit a few years back (see my links below). Sadly they
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by leonroy 10y ago
> I remember vividly the nights I spent with his book on the left side and English dictionary on the right one. Underlining and writing words and page numbers of words I coulnd't find just to return to them later when context would

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