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coob··on Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom
It's more important to appear smart and to spread your opinion than to contribute anything of value!
coob··on Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom
The BBC publish magazines but I wouldn't describe them as a print publisher.

They're a broadcaster.

coob··on Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
Nice job Gumby
coob··on Dubsmash: Scaling to 200M Users with 3 Engineers
They don't
coob··on Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced
> aux doesn't inherently require any electricit

Yes I'm sure those headphone drivers magically shake themselves.

coob··on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Aren't Fully Disabled When Off in iOS 11 Control Center
Where is this setting? I remember it being on an old beta (7/8) but I thought it was removed?

Edit: Found it. "Wi-Fi Assist" in Settings > Cellular / Mobile Data > Scroll past all the apps > "Wi-Fi Assist"

coob··on Daimler has new electric trucks and a buyer for them
Batteries don't need rare earth metals and neither do newer electric motors.
coob··on Apple, Amazon Join Race for James Bond Film Rights
There's no such thing as 'Britishness in the genetic sense'.

Idris Elbra is as British as they come.

coob··on Magic Leap is experimenting with light-bending nanomaterials
Real artists ship
coob··on Interviews on Skype: Test candidates using a real-time code editor over Skype.
You can't always easily tell when someone is going to be a pain to work with on an interpersonal level.
coob··on Show HN: Moon – fast 7k Vue alternative
I agree wholeheartedly. This is demonstrably better than what already exists in the ways mentioned.

I don't understand the 'shit on something new because there are similar things' mentality. It is the antithesis of the hacker spirit.

coob··on GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath To Step Down After Finding Replacement
Desktop Safari has had reader mode since at least 2014.
coob··on Tesla raises $1.8B
It pays for itself when you sell the house.
coob··on Apple MacBook Pro lasts 135 minutes longer on battery in full screen mode
I remember being amazed the first time you could have a Quicktime player window playing live video and also being slow genie-effected to the dock if you held down the shift key as you minimised the window.
coob··on Ravens OL John Urschel, 26, retires abruptly, two days after CTE study
Here's an interesting article on how Rugby is ignoring CTE:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/11857548/Rugby-u...

coob··on Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
Like the idea of appear.in but it really pegs CPU
coob··on An AI defeated human fighter pilots in an air combat simulator (2016)
The real kicker is that an AI controlled aircraft wouldn't be as limited in manoeuvrability as one that has to sustain a human.
coob··on Facebook releases 300-dimensional pretrained Fasttext vectors for 90 languages
> Also I don't think there is a language called "Western".

Going by the ISO 639 code I think that's supposed to be West Frisian

coob··on The future of iOS is 64-bit only: Apple to stop support of 32-bit apps
You won't hear any good answer because there isn't one.
coob··on Ask HN: Product Managers, how did you get there and what's your background?
On a simple level, RICE scoring can help: https://blog.intercom.com/rice-simple-prioritization-for-pro...
coob··on Ian's Shoelace Site
This is how I do 'Ian's knot': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbaHxsilsKI
coob··on Lyft Loses $600M in 2016 as Revenue Rises to $700M
That was the central premise behind Karhoo - an idea with a good long term future only to be seriously mismanaged at the senior level leading to failure.
coob··on Elon Musk Receives Product Suggestion on Twitter, Implements It 6 Days Later
Probably in the works for a while?
coob··on Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
Doesn't seem fair to base a test on using Chrome when Apple bundles a more power efficient browser with the OS.
coob··on How Skype fixes security vulnerabilities
appear.in regularly pegs my CPU at 100% :(
coob··on Galileo, Europe's own satnav, to go online
Does anyone know where I can find out more about the tunnel / high rise compensation mentioned in the article?
coob··on I had a health crisis in France
That only covers income tax - social security contributions are heavy (but deductible from the income tax).
coob··on Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM
> I am of the opinion that a Pro machine does not need to be the thinnest available model.

Good, because it isn't: http://apple.com/macbook

coob··on Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal
Both Clinton and Sanders were against the TPP?
coob··on How Steve Jobs Became a Billionaire
It's called a History degree.
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