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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) on Thursday September 05, 2019 @07:30AM (#20885640)
Follow up from 2017 "Do baby boxes really save lives?" https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39366596

"[...] leading baby box companies sells its products as an essential gift for new parents, claiming studies have proven the link.

I asked the company if I could see these studies, but they said that studies showing positive results had not been published yet. Experts say that there are no studies showing the efficacy of baby boxes."

Re:Around the World in 33 Keyboards on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @12:50PM (#10981561)
Having always used a standard british keyboard, the subtle differences, e.g. location of \, #, ", `, ~, really slow me down. It just seems petty for Apple to ignore the standard and go it's own way... then again, it is Apple.

Also, I use # loads every day for c++ macros, and #if 0 blocks.

Re:Around the World in 33 Keyboards on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @09:52AM (#10980245)
Use a standard british keyboard[1]. It is a pain using the Mac "british" keyboard for programming in my experience.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KB_United_Kingdom.sv...

Re:Git from the inside out on Friday March 27, 2015 @11:53AM (#9277009)
When you've committed something, but then rebased or reset the branch position so the commit is not longer in the history of any branch or tag. This usually isn't a problem, because when you rebase work you are making a copy of the commit so references to the data should be the same.

I also think it's worth noting, `git gc`, which is triggered automatically occasionally, actually runs `git prune`.

Re:Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:18PM (#6328964)
and on google maps: http://goo.gl/maps/FqFdf
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2013) on Friday February 01, 2013 @10:45AM (#5151338)
Oxford, UK

NaturalMotion (http://www.naturalmotion.com/) is a leading game technology and development company creating animation software used in AAA titles such as Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV and Irrational Games' BioShock Infinity.

We're looking for talented C++ programmers to join our team building our industry leading animation tools.

If you want to help make game characters come to life, get in touch.

http://www.naturalmotion.com/company/careers/

Peter

Re:Dealing with Wrist Pain on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @04:50AM (#4041976)
vim + pentadactyl[1] + vsvim[2] have saved me from having to use the mouse for most of the work I do.

[1] http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/index

[2] http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3-...

Re:Learning VIM while playing a game on Monday April 23, 2012 @09:48AM (#3878754)
I think `Insert` does the same thing in Vimperator
Hacked this together to do the job:

https://gist.github.com/1884821

You can specify the date to export, so could step back exporting batches until you've got everything.

https://www.google.com/history/lookup?month=11&day=30...

It shouldn't be too hard to write a script to scrape you're whole history...

Re:Visualising weather reports as a graph on Thursday February 09, 2012 @07:52AM (#3570897)

  Loading Google Maps plugin... 

  If you're using HTTPS Everywhere please disable it for 
  GoogleMaps since it makes the authorization request fail. 
  Tools Menu -> Add Ons -> HTTPS Everywhere Options -> Search 
  for 'GoogleMaps' -> Click on the green check mark to turn 
  it into a red x.
Is this a problem with the google maps 'plugin' or their implementation?
Re:What It’s Really Like to Work at Google on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @07:23AM (#3474614)
Re:Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter) on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @12:19PM (#3103456)
It would be great if the site url updated when I change location, then I could bookmark a link to the location I'm interested in!

Also, after changing location, nothing seems to happen for a couple of seconds. Some visual feedback that it's loading the location info would be nice.

Re:Check Out The New Blue Screen of Death in Windows 8 on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @07:00AM (#2995700)
I didn't have to login to see it, maybe the permissions on the picture changed?

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