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by simonsquiff 13y ago
We also make software for healthcare customers, and asked the same question re: IE7 support internally. Sadly our stats show that IE7 usage for our clients is at 59%! Down from a peak at 81% but still crazily high. We're hoping the Ap
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by simonsquiff 13y ago
Reminds me of Shanks law: "Because people understand by finding in their memories the closest possible match to what they are hearing and use that match as the basis of comprehension, any new idea will be treated as a variant of someth
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by simonsquiff 13y ago
Cruise ships are also an amazing alternative to nursing homes. I did some work for p&o cruises, on a ship that focused on round the world trips. These was one old lady there in her 80s who had swapped a nursing home for the ship - and h
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by simonsquiff 13y ago
It saddens me that this is the current top comment (to me it's a good example of what PG was complaining about) - this video is a comment on VCs, not on Tesla. Tesla is just the straight man. But the top comment is nit picking on how Tesla
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by simonsquiff 13y ago
Yes you are right. I was really just qualifying the original post about her getting rich. On reflection we're all making the same point that she's getting recognition and the programme is getting financial signalling of a job well done, whi
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by simonsquiff 13y ago
Yes but she said in that article that the money will go towards expanding the programme: 'The recognition and financial support will enable us to expand our vital research work and protect many more rural farming families from elephant inva
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by simonsquiff 13y ago
If you have an iPad I highly recommend getting LiquidSketch. It's a great puzzler about getting pools of liquid into the right place, and the liquid effect is stunning. It moves exactly as expected, has surface tension, splits and recombi
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by simonsquiff 13y ago
Yes, but there was general outrage at the terrible queues at Heathrow - e.g. see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18672286 it was raised in Parliament even, everyone said it was unacceptable and it was then fixed. Is the poor service in the
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by simonsquiff 14y ago
There are already quite a few products that do exactly that. I work for one of those companies - we specialise in nurse scheduling (though also cover doctors and other healthcare staff), and have systems that both manage the hospital's dem
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by simonsquiff 14y ago
Tesla, who presumably know a fair bit about this, say that battery energy density has been improving at a rate of 7-8% a year. http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4370061/World-on-cus...
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by simonsquiff 14y ago
This reminds me of how my visual psychology professor was attempting to help those with poor vision 15 years ago, but didn't appear to get anywhere with at the time. The idea was a simple (but clever) one - use virtual reality to segment th
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by simonsquiff 14y ago
Reminds me of this very interesting article saying that we're wasting our resources buying stuff that simply ends up in landfill http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/10/on-12th-...
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by simonsquiff 14y ago
One of Kurzweil's arguments in his response is "...the design of the brain (like the rest of the body) is contained in the genome. And while the translation of the genome into a brain is not straightforward, the brain cannot have more desig
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by simonsquiff 14y ago
Yes - this genuinely is excellent. I've already bought two albums (first I've got for years) and am really enjoying stepping through the results. Great stuff!
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by simonsquiff 14y ago
I hit the same problem, then fired up IE to try to get around it. Didn't work there either...unless you double click. I'd have given up if I'd not seen this comment! The other thing that is rather confusing is that having selected the fil
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by simonsquiff 14y ago
He's amazing. I absolutely devoured his book 'Almost Everything There is to Know' as a kid, which was the collection of all his cartoons from decades at the Observer. It's now online http://www.timhunkin.com/40_rudiments_book.htm but I
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by simonsquiff 14y ago
Thank you for the link. I've just finished it and it was utterly enthralling. If you were interested in this article then please do listen to this - exceptionally well researched, beautifully put together and genuinely enlightening.
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by simonsquiff 14y ago
I'm not saying this is the only reason for the lack of warm up (especially today), but it was a significant part of the perceived reduction from old diesels. It's also why if you put petrol in the car by mistake, you can still ruin the eng
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by simonsquiff 14y ago
One similar anecdote I really like is what happened with diesel cars. You used to have to wait when starting the engine for it to ‘warm up’ and drivers obviously didn’t like that. Now you don’t have the wait. They actually hadn’t reduce
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by simonsquiff 15y ago
To be clear - I work for a software company that sells to enterprise (government) customers. So we can't fix their IE6 problem. We have one product that requires IE7 and have had some major push back with that in some places (for example,
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by simonsquiff 15y ago
Government unfortunately - they are still very slow moving. And those that have moved have just moved to IE7..which doesn't help that much.
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by simonsquiff 15y ago
The real challenge is with enterprise applications that need a rich UI - this is where Flex was a good solution. Saying "just use HTML5" is fine when you serve the consumer space; it's not if you serve enterprises. HTML5 is just not a go-e
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by simonsquiff 15y ago
Um, point 15 has 'Don't tell me there's a problem without offering a solution. '
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by simonsquiff 15y ago
He's not 'mocking' the predictions, he's providing a compelling, well thought out argument as a counter to a prediction, particularly interesting due to his neuro background.
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by simonsquiff 15y ago
With icloud, I'm really hoping for shared saves on games between devices. Ie I play a game on my iPad; then when I grab my iPhone I can pick up the same game where I left off.
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by simonsquiff 15y ago
Agreed - I'm voting less. Voting seems to have less 'point'. Previously it would feel like voting was (in a minor way) helping the community, by helping to point out to others comments that deserve reading. Now only the comment writers see
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by simonsquiff 15y ago
It's like removing karma on articles, and saying 'if you don't have time to read the articles and evaluate for yourself which ones are good or bad why are you even here'? For me there are a number of answers to your question: - I love HN be
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by simonsquiff 15y ago
Personally I'm really missing seeing the karma on comments. Fundamentally, removing them has changed the balance of what karma is all about. Karma previously had a function for the reader. It highlighted and bubbled up the good. It showed w
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by simonsquiff 15y ago
Not just moving your head...you'll also get the effect from moving just the iPad. Will be interesting how much of the effect holds up from just subtle movement of either.
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by simonsquiff 16y ago
I work for a company that specialises in scheduling software - our main market is healthcare, where this 'do we have the right staff?' question is key. It's a completely different ball game from simple 'this person is doing this' scheduling

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