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> Remember how Beats headphones used to add weights to feel more substantial?

Beats didn’t do this. Cheap counterfeit headphone manufacturers did.

Mouseover on the emoji to see the unicode name.

The gaming engine is their current bread and butter but they're betting their future on lots of general simulation contracts, particularly in the defence sector.

That doesn't help if you're transmitting information from Shanghai Exchanges to London trying to gain first mover advantage.

> A fundamental aspect of the project was to rethink education in relationship with technology.

Disclaimer: I worked on early software for the OLPC (had an original dev board) for a group that (long after I left) went on to win the Global Learning X-Prize [1].

I actually think the issue with the OLPC not achieving its goals is that they focused too much on the hardware and not what software was on the device and the learning outcomes the software delivered for children. The classic "here's some tech go figure out what to do with it" approach doesn't work. There was more interest in teaching to code and open software rather than basic numeracy and literacy. Content is king here.

That's why initiatives like those of the winners of the Global Learning X-Prize[1] have shown measurable impact on learning outcomes.

[1] https://www.xprize.org/prizes/global-learning

> Industrial design without software is nothing.

It saved Apple (iMac)

See "V is for Vaporware": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20258485

I spoke to someone actually at Hotels.com about this urgency messaging. The number isn't fake.

Yes, there's basically no overland links in South Sudan / DRC: http://www.itu.int/itu-d/tnd-map-public/

If anyone wants to see what HyperCard was like to use or fancies a nostalgia trip, ViperCard is a web recreation: https://www.vipercard.net

That just the example in the description, not the scan results.

Yes

https://youtu.be/stc5MUIloP0

I can recommend the book Black Box Thinking [1] by Matthew Syed. It covers how not only checklists but also the learning culture that produced them can be applied to other industries and areas.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Box-Thinking-Surprising-Succe...

They claim the account requirement is not about licensing:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/77bdafd0-20b...

> after one crashed in Nairobi

The Ethiopian Airways flight crashed outside of Addis Ababa - in a whole other country.

What worked and didn't work with Microsoft's attempts to do this with Universal Windows Platform?

Was it just lack of active phone / tablet marketshare, or was there a fundamental technical reason it didn't take off?

> Is "identity theft" a thing in Kenya?

Yes:

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001287820/phone-use...

API docs for that can be found here:

[PDF] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma...

This is really well put together, works flawlessly for me.

I don't think that's fair, there's detail in there. For example, his approach to sales calls.

> It's current valuation is based on an assumption that the revenues will continue to grow significantly.

Is it? It has a P/E of ~10, the same as IBM ('big and steady')

Does anyone make a board like a Pi but with a flagship smartphone quality SoC?

The engineer on £90k got an additional £730 tax cut with the 40% threshold moving from £46,350 to £50,000.

Where do the clippings go?

It hasn't flown any missions, but Crew Dragon has had its launch pad abort tested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcHD9AmkxA0

So much for no new hardware required for L5

Do you think the same engineers working on Maps are the ones designing the next MacBook Pro?

The API doesn't let you do it more than once.

Wouldn't you just send whatever is needed to place the order?

Do all of the processing at the source and just send the final instruction?

(honest question I have no idea how this works)