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by mbrookes 9y ago
Done!
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Ask HN: Can anyone make good use of currencycare.com domain?
3 points by mbrookes 9y ago|2 comments
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by mbrookes 9y ago
The "something went wrong" if you don't delete the empty fields is confusing...
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by mbrookes 9y ago
Why isn't Wipro on this list?
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by mbrookes 9y ago
That isn't true at all. Most US networks, and may others globally support VoLTE. The difference in sound quality is remarkable, to the point of being unnerving at first.
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by mbrookes 9y ago
What was the reason given?
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by mbrookes 9y ago
> How to Hack Your Way In To The Climate Change Revolution This is just a list of (mostly) ill-informed questions rather than "Thought-Provoking Climate Change 2.0 Ideas", and certainly don't answer acabal's question,
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by mbrookes 9y ago
I first came across that issue during one of the many Facebook privacy scandals. I'd found some juicy bits in (IIRC) a much earlier version of their privacy policy. But when I went back to it later, the robots.txt had been updated, and
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by mbrookes 9y ago
Ah, right, no. "i.e." is an abbreviation for the Latin "id est", meaning "that is". "For example" would be "e.g.", ("exempli gratia" in Latin.) "E.g." is illustrative, wh
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by mbrookes 9y ago
> Other chains (ie: Burger King) have had more significant problems with enforcing franchise standards. Why have Burger King in particular had this problem?
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by mbrookes 9y ago
> The Ouija board seems highly inappropriate, since I believe jurors are instructed to not use outside research Outside research? Do you genuinely believe they consulted the spirit world? At most this this would surface their collective
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by mbrookes 9y ago
> The Ouija board seems highly inappropriate, since I believe jurors are instructed to not use outside research Outside research? Do you genuinely believe they consulted the the spirit world? At most this this would surface their collect
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by mbrookes 9y ago
Yes. (That much I figured out). :-)
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by mbrookes 9y ago
By "substitute" (poor choice of words), I meant - can this be used to allow live editing of parts of page, with their layout and formatting intact? Thanks for clarifying the data model & serializers.
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by mbrookes 9y ago
Two probably dumb questions, but I can't tell from looking at the examples and a brief scan of the docs: 1) Can this be used as as content-editable substitute? 2) What format is the marked-up text stored in, and does it require Slate t
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by mbrookes 9y ago
The link from hackerfall to your page breaks due to the trailing slash. Probably something easily fixed on your server...
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by mbrookes 9y ago
> They are a Cleveland-based hardware startup > Disclaimer: I am the Director of Architecture at BluBoard Then you should probably say "we are" rather than "they are" so that it's clear from the outset. (PS. W
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by mbrookes 9y ago
Ironic then that this article is set in a hard-to-read typeface!
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Incorrect: https://community.tes.com/threads/the-micro-bit-school-regis...
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by mbrookes 10y ago
bigclivedotcom has done some positive teardowns of IKEA electronic products: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ikea+bigclivedo...
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by mbrookes 10y ago
In case anyone gets the impression that bluetooth is completely unavailable, you can use Espruino (JS) http://www.espruino.com/MicroBit , Microsoft's http://codethemicrobit.com (scratch-like drag and drop),
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Not every child - every Year-7 (11-12 year old) child, whose school had a teacher interested enough to apply for them. My child's DT teacher did, but they used it for one lesson, then were given it to bring home. It's now in a dra
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by mbrookes 10y ago
>people from other countries might enter it backwards without thinking about it people from other countries might enter it correctly without thinking about it
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Also not relational, but Meteor (MongoDB) with GroundDB for the client provides optimistic UI, offline persistence, and sync on reconnect. Unlike Couch / Puch, you can easily share a DB between users with authentication / authoriz
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by mbrookes 10y ago
> meaning it needs to ask for less from the taxpayer Or they could align their charges to their costs, and have the users pay for the service.
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by mbrookes 10y ago
It was pointed out the last time I posted this that the demo is "fake" at least in as much as the inserted words aren't being synthesized but rather copy-pasted with existing intonation intact.
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification "SASS-like mixins for CSS in JS" sums it up. I did look at the docs, but that doesn't have an explanation of what value this is trying to offer either. If designers are being asked to write CSS-IN
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by mbrookes 10y ago
> this seems to be a way to write the complete CSS in JS, and then to have it compiled into CSS. That isn't what this is although I also had to poke around the source code to figure out what it is exactly. It's a set of mixin
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by mbrookes 10y ago
"Hidden high security feature – a high security feature is built into the coin to protect it from counterfeiting in the future." So you never know - but how would that work inside a metal coin?
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by mbrookes 10y ago
Same. Something is broken. Also using FireFox...

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