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US drug company to cut 5,000% price rise after backlash
Steve Wozniak on Steve Jobs Movie
Re:Douglas Coupland: Moody
on Friday June 26, 2015 @08:52AM (#9783949)
Not everything, surely. Microserfs?
Re:Forcing a generation to code is unprecedented, says Codecademy chief
on Friday September 05, 2014 @08:54AM (#8273581)
I'm sure you're right but I also think there are many kids who have probably never even thought about the mechanics of what goes on behind the web sites they visit, the games they play (and everything else vaguely tech related they come into contact with on a daily basis). So maybe it will, at the very least, introduce more kids to the fun that can be had, and ultimately, to careers in the sector.
Forcing a generation to code is unprecedented, says Codecademy chief
EU ban on powerful vacuum cleaners prompts anger and legal challenge
Re:Backblaze is building a 270 TB storage pod
on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @02:08PM (#8169177)
Ugh, sorry. Not sure if that was always the case and I've mis-remembered or there's been a change but my NAS point remains. Personally, I'd rather not faff around with an external drive plugged directly into my laptop.
Edit: typo
Re:Backblaze is building a 270 TB storage pod
on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @12:41PM (#8168610)
Agreed on the awesome post front and one of the reasons I became a customer in the first place. I'm unlikely to renew my annual subscription this year, though, because they don't support external drives/NAS. I don't like cluttering up my laptop with photos so have to transfer everything I need backing up to my rarely used desktop PC, which is a pain. I can understand there's a risk people might abuse networked storage by backing up multiple devices but in my case I wouldn't mind paying more for that service or simply based on actual GBs stored.
Edit: They do support external drives but not NAS. My bad.
EU spending over $400m on secret drone project – Civil rights group
Coding for women: could I learn to program in a day?
Re:Blitz Games Studios shuts down
on Thursday September 12, 2013 @05:38PM (#6377133)
Other than the 175 jobs?
Re:Tesla Model S Outperforms Aston Martin
on Saturday September 07, 2013 @07:59AM (#6344798)
It's true that you don't tend to mill around town in first gear but the title of the post is 'Tesla Model S outperforms Aston' which implies to me that both cars were performing optimally. I bet most people hadn't picked up on the fact the Aston was in the wrong gear for a race. I hadn't until I read your comment.
Re:Site Search Should Be Sexy: How Swiftype Raised $1.7M
on Thursday August 15, 2013 @06:12PM (#6220925)
There's a recent interview with Swiftype founder Quin Hoxie up on Mixergy which is worth a watch. http://mixergy.com/quin-hoxie-swiftype-interview/
Chinese authorities shoot down world's first cake drones
UK earmarks £60m for super-fast space rocket engine
Owner of stolen laptop that sends spy photos from Iran regrets exposing users
Judge cuts Apple's $1bn Samsung patent award by $450m
German 'Google tax' to force search engines to pay for showing news extracts
Downtime on Codecademy
Re:Darpa shows off 1.8-gigapixel drone, can spot a person from 20K feet
on Monday January 28, 2013 @03:20PM (#5130418)
Roughly 30cm to the foot.
Google refuses to censor search results accusing police of covering up crime
Kim Dotcom: the Internet cult hero spoiling for a fight with US authorities
Re:xkcd: Instagram
on Friday December 21, 2012 @08:21AM (#4952557)
Surely it would have made a better analogy if Chad had ended up hiring out stuff stored rather than selling it.
Re:Engineering RC cars from Dyson's scrapheap
on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @01:18PM (#4943884)
I bought mine in '99 and replaced a burnt out motor last year but other than that and a split hose it's been fine.
Re:It will take a 'baby elephant' to knock over this bike [video]
on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @12:55PM (#4905700)
Yes, but you still run wide into oncoming traffic or into that tree. It's not the laying down/sliding that kills you, it's the sudden stop.
I think it's rather telling the video doesn't show it negotiating a corner at a lean angle. Presumably that's quite a problem.
Having said all that, whereas I doubt I'd buy one as a motorcyclist, I might be tempted as a commuter if the price was reasonable (which, to be honest, it isn't).
Re:2013 Automobile of the Year: Tesla Model S
on Thursday November 01, 2012 @07:11PM (#4730265)
There's something very odd about that video. It looks like the M5 is driven off the line from tickover which is not how you would launch it in practice. C.f. http://youtu.be/E-xVVPO8L8s
Re:A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post
on Friday September 07, 2012 @08:36AM (#4488728)
The only thing I would do with HN is to _force people to comment when they downvote_
How do you prevent a: 'Downvoted for being moronic->No, you are' kind of thread?
Re:The Tale of the $340 CPM
on Thursday June 07, 2012 @03:24PM (#4080863)
Yeah but CPM is also used to denote revenue. I notice Google now uses RPM in their Adsense reports which makes more sense but they used to (from memory) use the term eCPM.
Re:This Is the Gyro-Stabilized, Two-Wheeled Future of Transportation
on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @03:00PM (#4039114)
The vast majority of motorcycles are water cooled and have been for some time.
Incidentally, lane splitting isn't being abused when motorcyclists do it to go faster than cars; that's the whole point.