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Deadly 13th-Century Volcano Eruption: Mystery Solved?(news.nationalgeographic.com)
2 points by tomsaffell 13y ago|0 comments
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
we should form a support group -- i too feel guilty about our lack of test coverage. but honestly, i dont think its much of a problem. we know from user feedback that none of our big issues are bugs in our Angular code.
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
Yes, the NPR article is alarmist, verging on irresponsible. A few facts, with sources: - The water coming out of Hetchy Hetchy is still well within the 'usable' range [1] - The total loss of power is 293 MW (Holm and Kirkwood), wh
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
Yes, I'd agree that both solve the "large dev teams looking to build native browser-based apps". But I think the difference is that Flex was reasonably good at it, but was very effectively sold into the enterprise by Adob
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
Have you built anything with AngularJS? I've built apps in both Flex and AngularJS, and to me AngularJS is a very different beast, and a much better beast. Unlike Flex, AngularJS: does not provide a UI component library, has a first-cl
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
>I'm looking at you BBC/PBS-Masterpiece joints. What shows are you referring to? (Downton Abbey is not BBC, its aried on ITV in the UK.)
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
Yup, I do exactly what you describe, for the exact reason you describe. I believe that if everyone did it then it would have an impact.
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
Seconded. As a Brit living in the US I often find US waitstaff's behavior intrusive. In particular, the 'is everything OK?' asked five minutes after the main course is served always bemuses me, especially when it interrupts s
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Why I willingly handed over my credit card and PIN to a fraudster(newstatesman.com)
206 points by tomsaffell 13y ago|131 comments
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
Maybe you could partner with just one small government to start. Of all the municipalities in the world, you'd think at-least one would be open to the idea, even if in tandem. Maybe it could be started by a person who works (or worked)
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
>There are years of ... Yes, First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Sorry, I know it's trite, but there's some truth there. Being ignored for years is not necessarily a reason not to d
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
>no-holds-barred sharing of intelligence and spying Citation needed, except that by definition there can't be one, because if there were such a public claim, and an un-shared piece of intel existed (that in theory would refute it),
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
Good question! I'm sufficiently interested in technology for its own sake that I keep abreast of developments in the PC industry, so I already knew about Chromebooks, and that they would be a good fit for her. My wife does not keep abr
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
>so getting computer-illiterate people onto a "web-only" device is great. I recently replaced my wife's aging MacBook Air with the Samsung/ARM Chromebook - she much prefers it. It doesn't overheat, nor require fr
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
There was a time when HN was populated by founders/tech geeks, and didn't have the problems that you're describing. That suggests to me that the presence of founders/tech geeks is not the proximate cause.
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TouchCast Aims To Reinvent Online Video With Interactive Apps(techcrunch.com)
2 points by tomsaffell 13y ago|0 comments
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
I can offer some advice on swift-water river safety. 1. avoid swimming in moving water unless you know it and everything downstream of it very well 2. if you're boating (canoe, tube, etc) on swift moving water always wear a personal
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
Agree on minimizing pre-planning, and that 90L seems quite big. 40L is probably a good size for basic ho(s)teling gear. Personally, I prefer to travel with 65L, so I can add: light tent, sleep pad, sleeping bag, micro stove, 1 pan, water st
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
The customer decides the length. Nearly all of them are between 30 seconds and 5 minutes. The majority are between 1 and 3 minutes. We recommend that customers keep them short, to keep their viewers happy :)
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
Thanks (founder here). No trivializing intended! We have a lot of very talented editors on Videopixie, and we're constantly impressed by their work. We frequently get their input on pricing, and we adjust. Being a marketplace, the theo
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
Thanks Erik. You're right, and we'll be in touch :)
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
Thanks Ethan - founder here. You're pretty close to the mark. As we were building out SellStage we had office hours with PG where we said (paraphrasing) "retailers have all these different video related problems, we're not su
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Videopixie (YC S11) Launches To Create A Marketplace For Video Editors(techcrunch.com)
61 points by tomsaffell 13y ago|17 comments
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
Certain traffic lights in the UK have something like that. If you flash your lights (at night) as you approach they will change. It's sometimes used where a minor road crosses a major one. At night the lights are configured to stay green fo
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
..which is interesting when you consider the uproar in Cyprus over the taxing of savings accounts. "Taxing savings" sounds so much worse than "printing money", but in fact it was better in some ways, because the tax could be applied progres
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by tomsaffell 13y ago
There seems to be some debate about whether particulate matter has a net-warming or net-cooling effect. It's difficult to estimate empirically, because there are so many uncontrolled variables. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
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by tomsaffell 14y ago
Yup, cleaning up HP will be expensive. But isn't that a perfect case for an economic stimulus project? Invest now to create an asset that will improve economic productivity for the following century. The fact is that HP will one day be a
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by tomsaffell 14y ago
Agreed on TL, Bayview, HP. For those unfamiliar with SF: Tenderloin is in the heart of SF (walking to Union Square shopping, Financial District) and where you go if you want to score drugs, offload stolen good, pick-up, or feel scared at ni
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by tomsaffell 14y ago
Right, the low end of the range should be much lower. Right now, my money is on a units error.
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by tomsaffell 14y ago
Thanks for pulling those numbers. But something doesn't quite add up.. The first linked report says: Samples of rice products from the US, South America, Asia, and Europe were purchased from local supermarkets and analyzed using XRF and GF

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