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coob··on How Steve Jobs Became a Billionaire
It's called a History degree.
coob··on London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211
Leaseholds that long usually come with a share of the freehold.
coob··on New Shepard In-Flight Escape Test [video]
The Dragon Launch Escape System was successfully tested in May last year.

It is Blue Origin who are catching up.

coob··on Paper Planes
Designing passport style stamps is so much fun! Put some together a while back for a iOS 6 era language learning app of mine:

http://image2.aving.net/2013/06/10/201306100944542610.jpg

coob··on Joe Sutter, who guided creation of the Boeing 747, has died
In coach on the upper deck with Virgin if you're by the window seat you get a nice extra shelf too.
coob··on Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS don’t accurately seek them
Marco and the others mentioned this on the example podcast episode (linked from he article).

Hardware support for VBR is pretty decent now.

coob··on YouTube's road to HTTPS
Android < 4.1 doesn't properly support TLS 1.2.

PayPal were originally going to stop supporting non TLS 1.2 (TLS 1.1, 1.0, SSL 2, SSL3) connections in June - they've now pushed this to next year: https://devblog.paypal.com/upcoming-security-changes-notice/

coob··on YouTube's road to HTTPS
> We found that HTTPS improved quality of experience on most clients: by ensuring content integrity, we virtually eliminated many types of streaming errors

Wow, what were carriers doing to the streams?!

coob··on HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
HDD is to 2016 as DAT Tape was to 1996.
coob··on GPS 2.0: Aerospace Corp. Launches Second Draft of GPS
The APIs provide enough detail:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreLo...

coob··on Startup bank Mondo raised £1m crowdfunding in 96 seconds
Halifax have a credit card that does exactly this.
coob··on We're hearing about troubles at Nest
I have a Nest. There's a 3rd party app called Skylark[1] that integrates with the Nest API allows you to set Away/Home according to your phone's location and your own geofences.

http://www.skylarkios.com

Works really well.

coob··on Apple's Tim Cook defends encryption. When will other tech CEOs do so?
Weak Service Portfolio?

Off the top of my head:

SSO ID Service / Cloud Photo Storage / Cloud Document Sync / Cloud Backup / Email / Instant Messaging / Music Store / Music Streaming Service / Cloud Music Service / Movie/TV Store / App Store / Push Notifications / Payments / Video Conferencing / Game Centre / eBook Store / Shared Calendaring / Notes / Large File Sharing / Personal Assistant / Maps

Weak?

coob··on Detect and disconnect WiFi cameras
Non technical people are going to run shell scripts?
coob··on HangoverApp – Share pics without Internet, only visible if all devices present
Hangovers were around a long time before the movie.
coob··on Amazon and eBay 'liable' if they ignore VAT fraud
No word on if it's a UK or US keyboard.

Also - they could be fraudulently taking advantage of Apple's 15% education discount.

coob··on Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first
Really? You're going to be that person?
coob··on Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster
Apps use less data than mobile web sites - API's over full HTML/CSS/JS stacks. When a web page on a modern news site can be ~20MB, this news is no surprise.
coob··on Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock
Is it actually enforced? Has anyone been taken to court over it?
coob··on Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all solving the same problems
Apple are buying back stock at quite a rate.
coob··on Inside Popcorn Time – the world's fastest growing piracy site
Isn't that the very problem popcorn time is addressing?
coob··on The Caveman Guide to Parenting
Those life expectancy figures are driven lower by much higher infant mortality. Plenty of 50/60 years olds around in cavemen times.
coob··on Design Documentaries
Can't find this on the list, but I loved this video of Aaron Draplin working through a new logo design:

http://vimeo.com/113751583

coob··on Mac at Work: IBM Launches Services to Deploy Macs at Scale to the Enterprise
Consulting.

Company X has Problem Y that can be solved with technology. Company X feels they don't have the know how to do it so they pay IBM to help them do it.

IBM has a suite of products/services that have been put together to speed this process up, but they will also put together custom products/services (for a handsome fee).

coob··on UK Is Leading the Way to Become a Global Bitcoin Hub
Could you not have used Transferwise?
coob··on Behavioral Profiling: The password you can't change
Isn't Google's recaptcha already doing this?

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/google-one-click-recaptcha/

coob··on Yahoo Offers New Mobile Chat Service Featuring Silent Video
Any deaf HNers here? Would this work well for the deaf community?
coob··on 96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack
You don't 'need' the thunderbolt adaptor. Any old USB NIC will do. Like this $15 USB3 Gigabit ethernet adaptor:

http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Ethernet-Chromebook-Specific-...

coob··on How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment
Japan's are lower than Germany's.
coob··on NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
Is it this one?

http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/DisplayOver...

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