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I recognise this from the university, most impressive & intriguing final project of the lot - it was praised heavily by the lecturer too.

Bravo on the work, I'll put it to use for sure this summer.

- 2nd year moving to 3rd

Re:Show HN: Stock Options Info and Visualizer on Thursday December 22, 2016 @07:49AM (#13236905)
Where does it source its data from?
Re:Show HN: Easy HttpStatus. Choosing an HTTP Status Made Easy on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:44AM (#12549239)
Very nice.

Have you considered displaying a growing log of each question answered & selected answer as the user progresses through the options?

Re:Ask HN: Strange bug workarounds? on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @04:39AM (#12486467)
Microsoft Excel 2003 (or at least the copy I was stuck with) had a weird bug where if the final column of a CSV spreadsheet with headers was empty (column header there but no data) then the outputted CSV file would only contain the correct amount of commas for affected rows up until the 16th line before it just started discounting the commas to indicate an empty field at the end of the table.

This would cause all sorts of errors with the program I had to upload the files to.

My only work around was a series of Regex based find and replaces in Notepad++, I could have perhaps scripted something automatic but I was on a very locked down machine at the time.

It was one of many weird MS Office bugs I had on a A3 sheet pinned to my cubicle wall.

Re:Throw – throwaway notes stored in the URL on Friday September 09, 2016 @11:12AM (#12462941)
What's the maximum note length if it's going to be stored in the URL?
Re:Show HN: Bottr – Bot Framework for Node.js on Friday September 09, 2016 @11:06AM (#12462880)
Is https://bottr.co/examples meant to be bare of a stylesheet?
Re:A pilot who stole a secret Soviet fighter jet on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:21AM (#12443598)
The accepted and very informed answer to to a similar question on StackOverflow concludes that it is unlikely.

http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2360/what-are-th...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-swept_wing#Return_of_t...

They do look incredibly cool though.

Re:A pilot who stole a secret Soviet fighter jet on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @09:13AM (#12443088)
Another very interesting aircraft is the experimental Su-47, with only one ever being built. Its forward-swept wing design make it a treat for the eye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-47

Re:Researchers Confront an Epidemic of Loneliness on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @11:25AM (#12436669)
A national study released this year showed Sixty-five to 79 is the happiest age group for adults in the UK. Though this declined in the over-80s.

So what happens around the age of 80?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35471624

Excellent, thanks.
Can you go anyway to expand on how I'd go about setting up my own server for this?

The FAQ is not clear to me.

Re:Public Transit Unions on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @06:16AM (#12350923)
The UK then.
(Early 20s, UK Citizen & Resident) Yes, some physical friends have been met though FB but mostly it's been hugely instrumental in developing existing relationships (99% by messaging). No job offers but I have personally provided job opportunities through it. The last 5 social events I've been to (party, festivals) have been arranged through group messaging on FB's Messenger.
Re:Show HN: I created HN profile widget on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @05:43AM (#12296382)
This is very nice! Can you make it so that the Top Submissions links go to the HN discussions?
Re:Cursory hack – Fake address bar interaction on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @09:16AM (#12261408)
On Chrome Windows 7 version I've got the window un-maximised and the pretend cursor escapes well onto the desktop and outside the bounds of the visible Chrome window itself.
Really nice application, very clear and easy to use. My only gripe is that the homepage is a little unpolished, the selections jig about on the page as I hover over the different choices.

Is there any chance we'd be able to get these maps to download as SVG?

Re:Company town on Thursday July 28, 2016 @06:59AM (#12179509)
Were the shops and local conveniences (pubs, bars etc) company owned & run or contacted out to other companies? How free was a private business able to establish a means of supplying services to those who lived and worked in the town?
Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @08:35AM (#12165139)
I've not had a yellow notebook for a long time, but in my view right now I have 5 stacks of yellow sticky-pads (aka post-it notes), some of which are A5, notebook sized.

When I buy cheap recycled-paper notebooks the paper is often off-white and has a yellow look to it. At least to me; yellow implies disposability or cheapness.

Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @07:24AM (#12164810)
For me the old yellow colour implies that the notes taken within the app are for easy disposal and will be poorly organised - just like how yellow paper is used primarily for quick throw-away notes and scribbles in reality (at least here in the UK).

The Notes app is far better than that, the white it uses now implies a more permanent organised feel which better reflects the app. The texts I store within it are important to me, they're not final documents but something I'd treat better than a disposable scribble on a yellow-pad. With the app's formatting, cloud and folder abilities this seems a good fit.

Are you able to provide screenshots? I'm reading this page but I can't get my head round what this actually does.
>Terrorists killed a handful of people

234 people dying from terror attacks in France in the last 18 months is not a handful. Don't just dismiss their deaths so heartlessly as a "handful".

Shame on you.

Re:Why Windows 10 Sucks on Friday July 15, 2016 @05:06AM (#12099691)
You got lucky getting by with only 2 issues, I've lost count and since abandoned the OS.

When I upgraded my 8GB RAM, i7 machine (what should be a decent bit of kit) I experienced continual problems.

Sound drivers would just stop working, the OS would completely forget that there were even speakers. The cause would always change and there would always be a different, stressful, time consuming fix. This was not an uncommon problem, I found myself in a large crowd with these faults.

Later I found myself joining plenty others in losing networking abilities after forced updates. My WiFi drivers would vanish and intermittently reappear, pretty much like the sound issue.

Every update MS pushed led to another time-sucking issue to patch up, I would dread the next update.

The continual problems caused by Windows 10 made me go out and buy a Mac. I don't want anything to do with Windows anymore. After suffering through the Windows Phone, Windows 8 and now Windows 10 I'm completely done with MS. It's so sad to see the company just turn itself to trash, I used to be a huge fan.

Re:Gimp 2.9.4 Released on Thursday July 14, 2016 @08:24AM (#12093132)
Those all could mean other things, Gimp afaik only has a "dirty" meaning. I've never liked mentioning it and always wondered why they'd stick with a name like that.
Re:Show HN: Verbatim – a simple pastebin on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @10:43AM (#12086491)
I loved it until I hit save and saw the monster of a URL it returned.

These URLs aren't something I'd be able to quickly tap in on another device to save messing about with accounts & logins. If the URLs became short and/or pronounceable I'd use this service daily.

There's a very clear hide link to click, there's no need to open Dev tools like the other comments are suggesting.
Re:Show HN: Half-Life 2 Deathmatch Mod Server on Saturday September 12, 2015 @04:20PM (#10209214)
Is the video of the play live?
What do you mean by your second paragraph? I can't figure what you're saying.
Re:Show HN: Greenlane.io – A scenic route mapping application on Thursday September 03, 2015 @05:40AM (#10164011)
Wow, really gorgeous app! Are you planning to expand it beyond Toronto at any point? (UK pretty please)
Re:The UK's First Christian Hackathon on Thursday September 03, 2015 @05:10AM (#10163944)
Care to expand?
Re:Dismaland – Bemusement Park on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @08:22AM (#10115905)
It should be noted (a lot of people have missed this) that not all the works there are from Banksy himself but rather a large range of artists.

    nearly 60 artists including Banksy are exhibiting work
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/21/banksy-d...

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