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by leonroy 9y ago
No one in the West (that I’ve ever met) literally throws away old iPhones. They either get handed down to a kid (merits of which are for another thread) or a friend or relative. Some folk do trade in their old phone and a lot flip them on t
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by leonroy 9y ago
Besides voting? Money. Anyone in a well paid profession who asks ‘what can I do’ the answer invariably is to donate and fund the action groups and parties who best represent your views. Donating time is a wonderful thing but unless you’re c
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by leonroy 9y ago
Employer's can take out life insurance on an employee (provided consent is given). Wondering if there are exceptions to this rule?
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by leonroy 9y ago
The #iamroot bug was actually filed mid November with product-security@apple.com according to this weeks ATP - A couple of weeks before it all blew up on Twitter. I think the cause is more pertinent than the symptom here - Apple don't
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by leonroy 9y ago
I've been/seen both sides of the coin. It's not quite that black and white in most of the organizations I've seen. Sales is pretty rough, it's a lot of slog through lead after lead. There's a fair bit of creati
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by leonroy 9y ago
There's a concept called first mover disadvantage. Whilst it might be laudable for a CEO to stand up for principle if the costs outweight the rewards they'll find themselves out of a job. Especially so if a competitor proves that
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by leonroy 9y ago
Mavericks was a big one for extending battery life. It came quite a bit after Snow LeopRd and introduced timer coalescing which significantly improved battery life across the board for all MacBooks: https://m.imore.com/maver
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by leonroy 9y ago
Typeform is fine. I don't think it's your problem here. I'd simplify the signup form to just take the absolute MINIMUM you need which is just: 1. Email 2. Password If a user's willing to give that they're probably w
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by leonroy 9y ago
Solo founder here. I found the first few months of my startup so tough that I must've googled Successful solo founders? a half dozen times. I'm sure you've done the same and there's a lot of stuff out there from PG, Al
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by leonroy 9y ago
Yeah, it's great for setting stuff like printing defaults so you don't have to set the print quality or page size over and over again (unless I'm missing an obvious way to do it in System Preferences?).
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by leonroy 9y ago
heheh, that was well worth watching! There was an awful case about three years ago where some guy hacked into a baby video monitor and started yelling at the 10 month old child: http://time.com/79170/stranger-hacks-into
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Apple trailing Amazon and Google as America's favorite tech company(theverge.com)
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by leonroy 9y ago
As a company director since the age of 15 I’ve had my personal address publicly listed for quite a while now. Prior to that there were phone books and whilst you could choose to be delisted clearly a lot of people didn’t since the books wer
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by leonroy 9y ago
I attended Twilio’s Signal conference and they had Twilio Quest running at their hackathon. As the head of my little startup I was supposed to schmooze and attend all the biz type talks - what did I do instead for the entire morning? I spen
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by leonroy 9y ago
OEM variants without the media and box are £25 on Amazon. Worked fine for us. Came as a license key from a VAT registered reseller and activated just fine.
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by leonroy 9y ago
I used to practise IF regularly and anecdotally found fasting really killed my ability to focus, make decisions and code until I get past that 12 hour hump of ravenous hunger. It became disruptive enough that I gave up IF on work days and n
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by leonroy 9y ago
Devialet are a recent one. Very, very impressive engineering indeed and all designed and made in France: https://www.devialet.com/
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by leonroy 9y ago
A lot of HiFi kit is designed and made in the UK from Meridian, KEF, Naim, Linn, Bower & Wilkins, Chord and a bunch of others I’m doubtless forgetting. All world class stuff and at a range of prices from expensive to eye watering. Video
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by leonroy 9y ago
He recently said (paraphrasing) that it wasn’t particularly productive investing in Fusion when there’s a giant, very efficient fusion reactor in the sky. We’d be better off improving solar panel efficiency and energy storage solutions.
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by leonroy 9y ago
My goodness, you’re getting downvotes for recommending a Java app. As a Java dev, seeing that level of animosity certainly gives me some serious food for thought!
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by leonroy 9y ago
Cannot upvote this highly enough. For old tech stacks we've had to maintain meticulous notes with setup and maintenance steps. They're very error prone and require constant upkeep to keep our build notes up to date. With our new t
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by leonroy 9y ago
> This is why I don't donate to charities. I believe for every dollar I would donate perhaps $0.1 would actually reach the destination and be spent on helping people. I'd rather donate directly to people in need after I meet th
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by leonroy 9y ago
DDG is a bit US centric but despite that I use it for nearly everything. On the rare occassion it's not returning good enough results (images or certain UK specific stuff) I just use the aforementioned suffix g! . Give it a go, takes
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by leonroy 9y ago
Yep, although they don't use Btrfs RAID but instead run it on top of LVM which provides the necessary RAID functionality.
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by leonroy 9y ago
I also found meditation to be incredibly useful. Far more than it first seemed. Meditation seems to take the edge off the highs and lows of the day so you're just a little more even keel. I'd recommend the Headspace app to start w
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by leonroy 9y ago
Cannot agree more. As a major gamer in my teens and early twenties I stopped for 10 years and only just resumed. I found my hand and eye coordination for titles like Batman Arkham Knight and Spelunky were surprisingly bad and this is despit
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by leonroy 9y ago
Yeah it's pretty shocking how much CPU and memory Electron apps use. Used to be Java chat apps and IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ) were considered slow and bloated. They're practically fleet footed compared to the new breed of web apps.
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by leonroy 9y ago
Not supported on iOS true but is definitely supported on macOS.
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by leonroy 9y ago
That was pretty eye opening indeed. I feel that companies as well as schools should be attempting to instill more conscious and empathetic behaviour in their execs and employees. After all - as Foster states education never really ends - co
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by leonroy 9y ago
It's probably one of the highest quality emulators out there. For example it is fully compatible with the Gamecube and Wii controllers using your computer's Bluetooth. They've reached a level where the console can even access

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