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Re:Vanmoof S3 E-bike Review on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @11:34AM (#22935833)
The "stolen" argument seems a bit odd. Sure, anything can be stolen.

When purchasing an e-bike a removable battery was a must have. The one I wound up purchasing has a pretty heavy duty locking mechanism for the battery so I never really have to worry about it being stolen.

Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox on Thursday May 30, 2019 @01:50PM (#20053985)
I'd use Safari over Chrome, but Safari has a couple of show-stopping bugs:

1. Swiping back on the trackpad to navigate backwards freezes the page for a couple of seconds. It then redraws the page with any updated elements (perhaps a refresh?).

2. The element CSS attributes in the dev tools often fail to update the DOM, duplicate with every keystroke, or revert what you have typed.

I got bit by this over this weekend, too. I received the initial email September 27 @ 1:35 AM local time. I called Rackspace to see if they would be sending out emails prior to each VPS being rebooted 30 minutes or so before just as a heads up for human monitoring purposes. The representative told me that it "was not feasible" for them to do that for every VPS. Instead... I've been camped by my computer all of today (Sunday) to monitor the reboots since I have servers at DFW & ORD and they have a 24 hour time window for those regions.

While their status page was somewhat helpful, I find it absolutely absurd that they can only update it once every 60 minutes to cue customers in. In addition, their Cloud Control Panel doesn't reflect the reboots. When a VPS goes down for a reboot... the CP shows the server as "Active - Online and functioning as properly". Thankfully great third party monitoring services (using Scout) exist so they can notify in-place of Rackspace's incompetency.

As someone who shells out a significant amount of money to them each month, this is pretty disheartening. That being said... I seem to have survived the Great Rackspace Reboot of 2014 and can only hope they handle the next event better.

Perhaps... but let's not forget about the "Poke" app which was their first run at a Snapchat clone. Anything FB puts out isn't an instant success.
Re:Follow up to the investigation results on Monday April 28, 2014 @06:58PM (#7663689)
She retracted and said she was actually contacted (later in the day): https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/453337287766450176.
GitHub employs a handful of women.[1] Have any others ever spoken out about sexism internally? Out of all these women why was Horvath singled out? Maybe I'm missing something but it really seems that this isn't adding up...

[1] https://github.com/about/team

Re:Happiness Hack โ€“ Remember what happened good today on Monday February 17, 2014 @01:11PM (#7253425)
Thanks for sharing these. The 'hacks' so far seem pretty beneficial and I'm planning on trying them.
Re:Redis 2.8.0 stable is out on Friday November 22, 2013 @08:50AM (#6780648)
Pretty much for anything that I want to store to a database but is too costly do to write every time I update. For example, I use Redis store counters for things and then batch process them storing to Postgres.
Certain shows from Showtime are streaming. For example, Netflix has all of 'Weeds' available for streaming.
Re:iMessage for Android on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @12:42AM (#6436027)
This is actually talking directly to the iMessage service. It's hitting https://service.ess.apple.com:443 (and https://service2.ess.apple.com:443 when authenticating) and not being proxied through any third-party servers. That being said, it does look like the app reports basic analytics but nothing sensitive.

This is truly impressive!

Re:A solar-powered Linux laptop is being designed on Friday August 09, 2013 @12:13PM (#6186493)
If they can get the price down, pairing this with the Google balloon WiFi would be awesome. Making it easier and cheaper for people in developing countries to get online would be great.
Re:Customizing Your Bash Prompt on Sunday August 04, 2013 @12:17PM (#6156019)
The working directory will be truncated with ellipses a specified length. The default is 40 but it, of course, can be changed. :)

https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline/blob/master/segments...

Re:Customizing Your Bash Prompt on Sunday August 04, 2013 @12:09PM (#6156009)
Wow, that's quite busy. Have you checked out `tmux-powerline`? I know it's deprecated but it still works very well.

Here's a screenshot of my setup for reference: http://cl.ly/image/3m2k1p1T2S2Y

Re:Moto X phone specifications on Thursday August 01, 2013 @06:36PM (#6144059)
Yep, appears they've fixed that and removed the TWSS line.
Re:Moto X phone specifications on Thursday August 01, 2013 @03:14PM (#6142734)
I'm curious if this page was even supposed to go live. There are _2_ references to 16 MB / 32 MB and also a "That's what she said" blurb.

Ouch.

Re:Cello: Higher level programming in C on Monday July 15, 2013 @02:54PM (#6047763)
After looking at the source, this appears to be a great beginners resource of how to build on top of C. The source is very concise and straightforward. I'm curious to see what will come from this.
Re:Google 'down,' let's do an experiment on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @10:35AM (#6019908)
ISP: DirecPath

Location: Atlanta, GA

Edit: it seems to be working now.

Re:Ask HN: Social sharing button location on Thursday May 23, 2013 @10:26AM (#5756954)
Personally, I think the bottom makes more sense. That way you can at least hope the visitor reads your post before sharing it.
Re:Plans for Vim 7.4 on Thursday May 09, 2013 @10:38AM (#5680635)
I'm sure you've heard of pathogen, but if not, check it out here: https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen. I've been using it for a while and it's fantastic.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else not able to connect to github? on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @11:47PM (#5642384)
Yes, I'm unable to connect. According to a quick Twitter search it appears it's down for everyone.
Lightworks is a video editing application, not a distro. For more information, just read the wiki page for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightworks
Re:Google Now on your iPhone and iPad on Monday April 29, 2013 @04:50PM (#5628648)
It only integrates with the Gmail app on the device. There are specific cards that will work _only_ if you have the Gmail app pulling in email and it's enabled.
How is pushing code to a private repository 'contributing to open source'?
Read the blog post and visit the site. He's not storing the passwords.
Re:Show HN: BugHub GitHub issues for your Mac on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @10:40AM (#5595365)
I've been using BugHub for iPad and it's a pretty solid product. Pretty excited to try out the Mac version now.

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