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by porsupah 12y ago
Have you tried UK farmhouse ciders? I'm curious how the general styles compare. Unfortunately, I don't know the NYC scene at all - I'm rather more familiar with San Francisco. (FWIW, I haven't tried the place yet, but h
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by porsupah 12y ago
I do hope so! It's hardly as if California's lacking in good apples, but there's still virtually no cider produced, as far as I'm aware. (I will be delightfully corrected!) ACE - ah, I'm okay with, but.. it's a
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by porsupah 12y ago
Here's a readily digestible summary of what's new in C11: http://blog.smartbear.com/codereviewer/c11-a-new-c-standard-...
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Possibly not significant, but I noticed the location's given as San Francisco - normally, Cupertino-based positions are tagged as "Santa Clara Valley".
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Indeed. I had an original iPad, and in Oct '13, went for an iPad Air. By that point, the improvements were great enough to make an argument, to me, for a replacement. But then, this is HN - we're not typical of the rest of the wor
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by porsupah 12y ago
If you're fine with downloading YouTube videos for playing locally, I've found 4K Video Downloader works well, at least under OS X. You'll wind up with plain H.264/AAC MPEG-4 files. https://www.4kdownload.com&
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by porsupah 12y ago
Likewise, in the UK, the dozens of Maplin stores remain places where it's possible to pick up components for electronics projects, alongside the kinds of other electronic products you mention. Evidently, there does remain a place in th
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by porsupah 12y ago
That said, Apple has demonstrated they're not averse to new product lines eating into other existing ones, as with the iPhone 6 taking some sales away from the iPad family, and in turn, the iPad mini away from the full-size iPads. I do
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by porsupah 12y ago
My late 2013 rMBP with the 1TB option sees sustained read and write speeds of around 900MB/s, indeed. Useful when dealing with uncompressed video.
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Of possible interest to HN readers is that the system and all the official games are public domain: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3117/a_history_of_gami... "After product rights reverted back to
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by porsupah 12y ago
I haven't verified the vulnerability locally, but as of OS X 10.10.1 (14B25), ntpd at least identifies itself as version 4.2.6, which is affected.
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by porsupah 12y ago
Back at Trilobyte, circa 1994-1997, everyone, without exception, had a NeXT (a NeXTstation or a Cube, depending on need). So everyone had email, fax, and so forth. The workload on the IT guys, as far as the NeXT kit went? Pretty much zero,
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by porsupah 12y ago
Indeed, there are quite a few similar examples. Remember CUSeeMe, an early VoIP app? Now all but forgotten outside the HN crowd, and yet Skype managed quite well several years later. One could argue the Newton falls into that category, comi
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by porsupah 12y ago
Apparently, Ocado did indeed finally turn a profit this year: http://www.theguardian.com/business/marketforceslive/2014/ju... A pity to see even they're running so lean on the profit margins - I've
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by porsupah 12y ago
I'd have to concur. The "Coast Starlight" route from Oakland to Los Angeles takes you through some stunning scenery, once you're past the Bay Area's industrial zones, winding up very close to the Pacific as you appr
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Local judge unseals hundreds of highly secret cell tracking court records(arstechnica.com)
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by porsupah 12y ago
I suppose it depends on how you'd even define something like that - headquarters, production, shooting, effects.. it's all so distributed now. Consider SohoNet's reach, as a network provider that specialises in high capacity
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by porsupah 12y ago
Perhaps Skylon is more to your liking?
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Olfactory cell transplant sees paralysed man walk again(theguardian.com)
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by porsupah 12y ago
It's a frustrating practice, and indeed, not limited to the Simpsons - even Doctor Who has suffered from cuts, on BBC America, of all places. SNPP, perhaps not surprisingly, has a catalog of Simpsons syndication cuts, arranged by seaso
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by porsupah 12y ago
I love the turn of phrase, but given this new display manages to improve on energy efficiency, I'm suspecting another, more mundane consideration: the Dread Marketeer. As is, the Pro line has the retina displays, whilst the Air doesn&#
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by porsupah 12y ago
Actually, according to this worldwide map of card and terminal EMV deployment, Africa/ME had chip & pin tech, as of Q4 2013, in 38.9% of cards and 86.3% of terminals. http://www.emvco.com/images/EMVCo_WorldMap-
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by porsupah 12y ago
Thanks for that. With the vulnerability of R&D, I'd feared the group may have been sidelined. I noticed they're claiming to be preparing to ship memristor DIMMs in 2016 - hopefully that's a genuinely commercial roadmap, r
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by porsupah 12y ago
Might you know what HP's current stance on memristor research is, by any chance? It's one of those technologies we've all seen simmering away hopefully, and HP's been (or, perhaps, was?) one of the few large SV corporati
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by porsupah 12y ago
For anyone curious, the package installer will refuse to run on Yosemite, declaring it requires OS X 10.9. (Of peripheral interest, whilst checking in the iOS Dev Center, I noticed there's a beta of iOS 8.1)
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I'd be interested to find out if Sandwich are sufficiently confident to offer contracts based on some measurable outcome metric. Such a "no risk" contingency would be valuable for very small business owners, beyond the likely
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Apparently, the orientation of the display will be a matter of setup configurability: http://www.slashgear.com/wheres-our-left-handed-apple-watch-... "So, it turns out the Apple Watch really works TWO ways. Apple tells
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And, apparently, at "card present" transaction rates, which I imagine took some degree of negotiation on Apple's part. http://bankinnovation.net/2014/09/apple-said-to-negotiate-de...
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The style of visualisation is indeed configurable within their app, as noted in Wired's review: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/a-review-of-the-iphone-infrared... There are, apparently, also third-party apps ava
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by porsupah 12y ago
There's very good coverage of the hearing over on Falkvinge's site, including a full translation of the arguments presented by the defense and prosecution, as it happened: http://falkvinge.net/2014/07/16&

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