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by zelos 10y ago
Can anyone see what changed with the iPhone SE? They seem to have updated it as the store now says "place your order starting 3/24", but all the specs look identical to me.
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by zelos 10y ago
And announcing a reasonably priced mini-tower with a decent GPU and expansion slots. What? I'm allowed to dream, right?
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by zelos 10y ago
I remember being at my most productive on a similar setup - ratpoison on a SparcStation 5. No distractions, no notifications and paging the web browser back in took about a minute, so no quickly checking Slashdot.
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by zelos 10y ago
Self-driving cars as in with no driver at all, even as a backup? Surely being allowed to run a fleet of self-driving taxis is 10+ years away from being legal?
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by zelos 10y ago
Assuming that the UK does end up with tighter immigration controls from the EU, getting staff in future is going to be harder, even if those already here aren't forced to leave. Whether those controls will actually make any difference
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by zelos 10y ago
Google[1], Apple[2] and Dyson[3] (ok, not quite London) are making quite big noises about big new offices, so I guess things can't be that bad? Possibly they're betting on picking up lots of tech staff cheap if the banks start lea
607.
by zelos 10y ago
Indeed. In the UK, the drip feed of fake news over the last decade from the traditional print press must have contributed to the Brexit victory. The Daily Mail is still running stories about straight cucumbers now.
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by zelos 10y ago
"See it, say it, sorted" is the current British Transport Police campaign: http://www.btp.police.uk/latest_news/see_it_say_it_sorted_ne...
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by zelos 10y ago
We've long thought of weight loss in simple "calories in, calories out" terms...Today, researchers view this rule as overly simplistic. They now think of human energy balance as "a dynamic and adaptable system,"
610.
by zelos 10y ago
So The Thick of It is more accurate than House of Cards ?
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by zelos 10y ago
Presumably the market for renting out rooms started out virtually completely free and over the years regulations have been voted in due to problems caused by that free market. That's not to say that those regulations are all necessary
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by zelos 10y ago
Even if it's slower for the transaction itself, the fact that they generally replace 1 human cashier with 2-3 automated checkouts mean that waiting times are much shorter in my experience.
613.
by zelos 10y ago
Demanding a decent user experience is shallow now?
614.
by zelos 10y ago
Strange that iTunes was one of the reasons I switched from Linux to OSX a decade ago and now it's first on the list of applications I'd like a decent alternative to.
615.
by zelos 10y ago
Apparently they can make a decent amount of money, roughly 50% profit: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/07/train-statio...
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by zelos 10y ago
Gambling is a pretty highly regulated industry in most jurisdictions because it exploits psychological flaws in humans. We're not perfectly logical decision making machines.
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by zelos 10y ago
static const string kNaverUrl = "www.naver.com"; That's such a common junior developer mistake. I see it a lot - constants called ONE_SECOND or COMMA.
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by zelos 10y ago
Working from home, presenting in meetings, working in a different office, impromptu group coding sessions. I guess you could have desktop and a laptop, but that seems like overkill and you just know you'd forget to git push something
619.
by zelos 10y ago
I've read that many people consider the "both sides have few nukes" dangerous. One side may think they can strike first, either conventionally or with some of their own nukes and disable their opponent's ability to retal
620.
by zelos 10y ago
Exactly. These kind of comments always make me think of that infamous HackerNews comment on the Dropbox launch announcement thread.
621.
by zelos 10y ago
The Qt based stack they had working when I was developing for the N900 was actually pretty nice. The platform-specific documentation was generally horrible, and queries to Nokia tended to be answered with "it's on the wiki somewhe
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by zelos 10y ago
The TomTom Bandit is an attempt to do that. The editing app is pretty decent, and it uses motion sensors and GPS on the camera to auto-detect interesting highlights in the video. (disclaimer: I do work there, but not on that team)
623.
by zelos 10y ago
I love the fact that no one seems to know why we say "sent to Coventry" as well.
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by zelos 10y ago
Not that I'd hold the UK up as a good example of democracy, but here there is a unique ID on each ballot paper that is noted down on a list next to your name when you vote. The ID/name list is kept securely, but can be used to fin
625.
by zelos 10y ago
Or remap Caps Lock as Escape with Seil (which I just discovered)
626.
by zelos 10y ago
That's likely to be self-selecting, isn't it? I know as a 37 year old engineer with 2 kids I value stability and a reliable salary over excitement/'changing the world'/foosball tables etc.
627.
by zelos 10y ago
First hit on Google: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility Graph down the bottom.
628.
by zelos 10y ago
Their idea was to overturn the way children were taught in public schools by integrating technology into the classroom. Although inspirational, the idea entailed competing with a series of multibillion-dollar global leaders in educational
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by zelos 10y ago
It probably helps congestion at the bottom of the escalator where people wanting to stand cross from left to right and vice versa as well.
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by zelos 10y ago
I notice that whenever I visit Amsterdam. I love cycling in the Netherlands, but the cyclists are awful.

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