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danbee

300 karma · joined November 15, 2010

Web developer/designer in London. Photographer and musician.

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danbee··on Folding bicycle small enough to fit in hand luggage
I'm 6 ft and ride a regular Brompton. They also make a telescopic seat post for taller riders, and the H bars are designed for a more upright riding position. They're surprisingly flexible in setup but I would definitely try and get a test ride.
danbee··on The Last i486 Online
If I remember rightly, the 487SX was actually a full 486DX processor that, when installed, disabled the existing 486SX CPU.
danbee··on Widescreen Gaming in the 90s
The Wii supported widescreen system wide. All widescreen content for SDTV was anamorphic.
danbee··on Next-gen games may cost $70. It’s overdue, but also worrisome
I remember being horrified when Nintendo 64 games cost about £70 in the UK in the mid/late 90's. At the exchange rate back then that would have been just over $100.

But then I had been used to paying £9.99 for mainstream titles and £2-3 for budget titles for my ZX Spectrum!

danbee··on Which Face Is Real?
I don't know if this is true for anybody else, but the real image always loads first.
danbee··on Show HN: Supportify – Support your top Spotify artists by buying on Bandcamp
I recently discovered that 7digital (https://www.7digital.com or https://us.7digital.com in the US) sells FLAC downloads for many popular artists. I first check Bandcamp but if a band is not there I can usually find it on 7digital.
danbee··on Old Concept Cars
Reminds me of the Lancia Stratos Zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancia_Stratos#Stratos_Zero
danbee··on Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]
Adam Ruins Everything did an episode on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeDOQpfaUc8
danbee··on USB Type-C is still a mess
Man, that sucks! I managed to trickle charge my 15" MacBook Pro with a 12W iPad charger once when I forgot the laptop adapter. Took overnight but it worked!
danbee··on Ask HN: Where do you deploy to in 2018 and how?
Netlify is fantastic for deploying static sites.
danbee··on Ask HN: Where do you deploy to in 2018 and how?
+1 for Gigalixir! Jesse is super helpful too.
danbee··on The iPad Pro as main computer for a programmer
The Apple USB Camera adapter[1] would let you connect your Ergodox to the iPad. If you need power too there's a USB 3 version with an extra lightning port.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD821AM/A/lightning-to-us...

danbee··on Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says
As an aside, who's idea was it at Fortune to have an autoplaying video that, when paused, starts playing again the moment you scroll down the page?!?
danbee··on The future of iOS is 64-bit only: Apple to stop support of 32-bit apps
Those websites should still work perfectly well on modern browsers (unless they use ActiveX components of course).
danbee··on Ask HN: Is it ok to use traditional server-side rendering these days?
More than ok, I'd say it's positively encouraged! I've seen more than my far share of over-engineered web applications that would have been much simpler and no worse off for being straightforward server side rendered apps.
danbee··on FreeNAS: Open Source Storage Operating System
Obligatory post complaining about the weird janky scrolling...
danbee··on Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS don’t accurately seek them
The MP4 container was based on the Quicktime file format (.mov).
danbee··on Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
Tried that on my Mac

$ which airport

airport not found

danbee··on Docker for Mac and Windows Beta
I should note that it worked fine on Chrome.
danbee··on Docker for Mac and Windows Beta
I couldn't sign up using Firefox on Windows. I'd enter a username, email and password then the form would just go blank on submission.
danbee··on Free Windows XP-10 VirtualBox/Parallels Images from Microsoft
OWC offer SSD upgrades for the Retina MBP's http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Air-Retina/Apple-MacB...
danbee··on Blazegraph 2.0 – GPU-accelerated distributed graph database
"Your connection is not secure

The owner of www.blazegraph.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website."

danbee··on Open Source Photography Workflow
I love Lightroom but holy hell is it slow these days!
danbee··on Apple facing huge chip patent bill after losing case
Two wrongs don't make a right.
danbee··on OS X 10.11 El Capitan: Review
http://hypercritical.co/2015/04/15/os-x-reviewed
danbee··on Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/09/16/because-of-apple
danbee··on Bcachefs – A general purpose COW filesystem
Anybody else just see this? http://cl.ly/ccI0
danbee··on The Call to Kill Adobe’s Flash in Favor of HTML5 Is Rising
In what browser? I find Safari with HTML5 video much better than Flash.
danbee··on Why i’m done wearing a helmet
I've been cycling on roads for 25 years and have never hit my head on the ground.
danbee··on How Beats by Dre played you like a fool
For just a little bit more the HD 380 Pros are much better headphones.
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