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I've had to do the same this summer in the UK. It's the first time we've had weather hot enough to trigger a problem, but it has been CRAWLING. :(
I do fear that cars are going to have the opposite problem to phones... Where Apple sacrifices battery life for unnecessary thin-ness, I fear car companies will sacrifice it for unnecessary speed and size.

Edit: and who knows what'll happen if Apple gets into the electric car business!

Re:Ask Apple: Why Isn't Jony Ive the Face of the Company? on Thursday December 14, 2017 @05:47AM (#15921304)
Isn't the answer simply that he doesn't want to be?

I'm sure I've seen him answer this question in interviews in the past.

Re:Amazon delivery drivers complain about bad work conditions on Monday December 11, 2017 @04:50AM (#15896067)
It would prove tricky to do home deliveries at night when everyone's asleep...
Re:Android 8.1 Oreo on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @11:23AM (#15852716)
How do you go about doing such a thing? My Nexus 9 could do with a new lease of life...
Re:Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor on Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:00PM (#15193030)
Couldn't that be an opportunity though? Are you more likely to notice 'the new thing' from Atlassian, or when someone says "Woah, have you seen how much they've improved HipChat?"
Re:Leadership Lessons from a Former Navy SEAL on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @02:52PM (#15030092)
Ha - Sorry if I sounded confrontational... I was actually agreeing with you.

As it happens, another great place to learn these skills is by volunteering with youth military cadet forces (in the UK, the Army, Air or Sea cadets.) I'm not sure how prevalent these are in the US? (I guess this is an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Cadet_Alliance)

Re:Leadership Lessons from a Former Navy SEAL on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @09:32AM (#15018001)
Really, any branch of the military in any country in the world. They all teach the same.
Re:Larry Page Deposition in Uber vs. Waymo on Thursday August 03, 2017 @05:06AM (#14918047)
I got the impression that he was aware of it, but had no reason to remember the specifics of it. He knew it sounded about right, which is what I'd expect from a CEO months (or years) after the fact.
Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:58AM (#14307780)
Good news - The next Apple Watch will be thinner!

Oh, you didn't ask for it to be thinner?

Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:56AM (#14307770)
Do you never worry about missing a family emergency call? Like an accident or death or similar?

I don't accept general calls overnight, but I'd hate to miss the call.

Re:Monzo’s Response to Cloudbleed on Friday February 24, 2017 @11:11AM (#13724901)
The other comments don't mention this, but it's also a new UK bank. They're going through the official approval process right now to be able to offer current accounts, overdrafts and so on.
Re:Postmortem of database outage of January 31 on Monday February 13, 2017 @04:44AM (#13634175)
Can't help but notice that the new backup monitoring tool suggests that the latest PGSQL backup is almost six days old...

Is that correct? http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/backups?from=14859419...

Presumably this tool is not for Windows sysadmins, it's for Linux/Unix sysadmins who also have to manage some Windows machines...
Re:Netflix's gamble pays off as subscriptions soar on Thursday January 19, 2017 @06:25AM (#13434915)
We did this - Cancelled Sky in favour of Netflix + Now TV's Entertainment bundle.

Not looked back, despite the many, many calls from Sky.

Re:Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S. on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @04:09AM (#12908317)
In part at least, because two of those countries are NATO members and thus all other NATO members have a duty to protect them.
Re:Co-founder problem. Pls vote on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:49AM (#12803683)
I'd suggest you have a long, detailed, open and honest conversation with this person about the future of your company and your working relationship. Part of being a responsible co-founder is dealing with problems head on, and finding a way to work through them.

It strikes me that if you can't see a third option: Working with this co-founder to improve your collective situation, then the company has already failed and you may as well move on.

Re:Apple is killing the headphone jack on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @06:02AM (#12077851)
I've had no problems with USB-C on my Nexus 5x, personally. Certainly 100x better than Micro USB.

I don't think as a connector it has the polish of the lightning adapter, but I also don't think it would be a disaster if Apple switched to using it.

Re:Docker for Mac Beta Review on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @11:13AM (#11581103)
Docker ID: dancryer

I'd love to test this out as a replacement for the Vagrant + VirtualBox set up we use currently to manage the development of PHPCI. :)

Thanks!

Re:Bidding farewell to Google Code on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:44PM (#9193281)
I really love the branch-level access control on Bitbucket. Being able to say that developers A,B,C have access to the repo, but only A can push to master, is incredibly useful.
Re:Ban Internet Explorer (UK Petition) on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @11:05AM (#8521315)
A better petition would have been to ban <IE10 use within Government organisations.

There's no way in the world that the Govt. could ban IE outright.

Re:Ask HN: How do you like my PHP side projects? on Monday August 04, 2014 @01:35PM (#8132969)
Should have mentioned, we're on Github, of course: https://github.com/block8/phpci
Re:Ask HN: How do you like my PHP side projects? on Monday August 04, 2014 @01:34PM (#8132968)
Hey Aruggirello - I'm one of the core developers of PHPCI (https://www.phptesting.org)

I really like the sound of #1. Would you consider building a PHPCI plugin for it? I think it would be quite popular, especially the version targeting reporting.

Re:Why do managers prefer ONSITE developers? on Thursday July 10, 2014 @09:43AM (#8014910)
There's a big part of it that is based on the incorrect assumption that if someone is in the office 9-5, they are working 9-5. That and the ability to directly monitor people, interrupt them whenever you want to, and so on.

The other part of it is slightly more understandable, which is to enable you to collaborate better with the other members of the team. Developers are often more likely to turn to someone they are sat near and bounce an idea off them than they are to write a question in an email, IM or chat room.

Thanks dalke, that's really interesting...

I can only imagine the number of heated arguments this has caused internally for Amazon!

Ask HN: Why does Amazon allow multiple accounts with the same email address?

We noticed a few days ago that my girlfriend has two accounts on Amazon (UK - not sure if that makes a difference,) each of which can be logged into with the same email address. The only differentiator at login time is the different password used to log into each account.&lt;p&gt;If she enters one password, she logs into her older account with her old address. With a different password, she...

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The link is broken. :(
Re:Colorado Needs Developers on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @10:47AM (#7017863)
Why don't employers in Colorado consider offering more remote working positions? Employees that enjoy their Colorado-based job might be more inclined to consider relocating....
Re:Ask HN: is PHPstorm worth the price, over Aptana? on Monday September 30, 2013 @07:46AM (#6468967)
I would say yes. PHP Storm, if nothing else, is a lot more system friendly for me than any other IDE I have tried (incl. Aptana, Zend Studio, Netbeans, etc.)
Re:What's the deal with gmail's new favicon? on Monday September 16, 2013 @05:12AM (#6392310)
I noticed that on one of my accounts the other day... I thought it was just a quirk in Chrome on my machine.

No idea why the change. :s

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