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by vermooten 12y ago
Holy fucking shit! I would have given my left nut for these in the 1970s.
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by vermooten 12y ago
Still searching for it :)
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by vermooten 12y ago
We tried the 'startup in a corporate' experiment, boy did it crash and burn. We did great things, quickly and beautifully. Sadly when it came to get the new things into Production, we crashed and burned. Exec sponsor got whacked f
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by vermooten 12y ago
I'm a development manager and so am obviously asked to give estimates all the time. I found many years ago that no-one reads the qualifications that go with estimates, they just want a date or a number of weeks' effort and assume
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by vermooten 12y ago
Incredible, great work!
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by vermooten 12y ago
The 3 videos they did with Minilogue took things to a new level. In one they had Minilogue describing their setup obviously with Live at the centre of things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baMs9P50J-w Then a video of them
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by vermooten 12y ago
One of Ableton's many great features is the integration with Max 4 Live which gives the user an insane amount of control. https://www.ableton.com/en/live/max-for-live/ You can create your own synths, eff
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by vermooten 12y ago
Not in the UK...
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by vermooten 12y ago
"32. Be able to get into an ER for under $100. It's ridicoulous that a mere 15 min consultation can cost somebody (the system) $1000+." You can. It's called 'living in Europe.'
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by vermooten 12y ago
I haven't got any friends :(
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by vermooten 12y ago
Similar story happened to a friend of mine, all of a sudden she starting seeing eastern-style patterns everywhere, on people like tattoos and so on. Too much pot.
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by vermooten 12y ago
Not in the UK of course, where Netflix's selection is like what you'd find in a box of VHS cassettes in a car boot sale.
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by vermooten 12y ago
I'm embarrassed on Microsoft's behalf for that video.
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by vermooten 12y ago
Even if I wanted to subscribe, I can't see anywhere obvious on the home page of how to do it.
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by vermooten 12y ago
Thing with Withings products is that that they get all your data. "For example, use of the online body scale leads to the collection of weight data and body mass indicators; use of the online blood pressure monitor sets off the collect
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by vermooten 12y ago
I wonder what it's Weissman score is :)
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by vermooten 12y ago
Also: why the hell do I need to see what the moon's gonna look like 6 days from now?
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by vermooten 12y ago
I don't want my heart rate and other health data getting uploaded to Apple and anyone else. Big blocker for me.
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Ask HN: How to manage legacy knowledge and experts
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by vermooten 12y ago
Netflix has little chance in the UK so long as they have such a dismal choice of content.
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by vermooten 12y ago
It's a very interesting concept too, I haven't played anything like it before.
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by vermooten 12y ago
Great, very nice idea. You should be proud and not pay much attention to the negative vibes that some people are putting out. They have their own issues to deal with.
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by vermooten 12y ago
A good read - I work with managers who don't like being 'held to ransom' by the senior experienced devs. One of the managers thinks that a pair of hands is a pair of hands - and prefers younger enthusiastic devs to 'fat
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by vermooten 12y ago
yeah right, I'm totally going to give you my credentials. You from Nigeria by any chance?
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by vermooten 12y ago
In USA only?
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by vermooten 12y ago
well duh
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by vermooten 13y ago
Please can yo make the type in your blog even less readable? I think knocking back the grey so that it matches the background should do it - you're almost there just needs a tad more.
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by vermooten 13y ago
A question I've been mulling about Airbnb since it started: who TF allows total strangers to stay at their home????
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by vermooten 13y ago
Everyone's predictions are wrong because no-one can see into the future. I know that, stated like this, it's a tautological statement. But hopefully you know what I mean. AND! the existence of different interpretations of history