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There was definitely a safety issue that lead to earlier landings taking place on a barge, but it also requires a lot less fuel to land somewhere downrange (which is always over the ocean) rather than boost all the way back to the launch site.

Didn't the porn industry adopt HDDVD until they realised that Bluray was winning?

Which feed were you watching? BBC2 had Chris Hadfield and Brian Cox, who probably count as their mainstream science programming big guns.

From the rest of the article, I don't think he's suggesting that only the Judicial Redress Act is sufficient as a replacement for Safe Harbour? Just that it's a useful first step that congress can take soon.

I'm not sure you replied exactly where you intended to

> They actually said they had everything made and printed, can't be that hard

Lots of it was "ready for printing", but not actually printed yet.

Doesn't this just mean that you need to click a different button to access the photos? There's a hierarchical change to make Photos a top-level product, and the product itself has had a facelift.

He's in the news today due to his role in the Greece crisis over the weekend: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f908e534-2942-11e5-8db8-c033e...

Even if that's the case, they're a very visible component of Reddit's userbase, to the point that an outsider definitely might see them as representative.

If the default home page and /r/all can all be flooded with posts about her, it's not exactly a small group of extremists.

I think this is referring to the Windows 8 apps?

> Doing as the GP said would have these archaic rules also overturned.

But at the expense of meaning that some couples wouldn't be able to marry, for, what - the next decade? Fifty years? And it's not as if a broader change to the meaning of marriage is off of the cards as a result of this - let's take the wins as they come.

You've not seen the signs everywhere saying that they're accepted? Quite a lot of the popular bars/restaurants in the centre and clifton accept them; all of the buses advertise that they accept them; everyone in St. Nick's market proudly claim to accept them.

It's backed by Sterling held by the Bristol Credit Union, who allow you to convert it back (probably subject to a transaction fee).

Not for a while, no. Last time I did around the Watershed they seemed okay about them, but I don't think I'd chance them on the bus :/

There might be £700k printed and in peoples' hands, but it's an extremely unusual thing to see someone using the Bristol Pound here, despite the huge range of places that do accept it. I suspect that most of the money doesn't move fluidly around the economy.

The standard behaviour for a while has been to open the action overflow (the "hidden" menu with three dots on the right hand side of the action bar) menu. This menu affordance was supposed to appear on devices that didn't have a hardware menu button.

Drifting away from the topic, but this would be a big change from the expected behaviour of opening the overflow action menu.

In the UK all companies (this is being phased in) have to offer a pension to their employees.

> Design is more than just pretty colours...

I don't think anyone would disagree with that? But hiding useful tools isn't necessarily bad design either - there's usually a tradeoff to be made to help the majority of users perform a common interaction easier vs. surfacing a more infrequently used tool more prominently.

Installing this on Android, it's pretty obvious this isn't native:

* the very first animation (a slide transition to the left) was janky

* The app was unable to get my GPS location (it's being shared properly, and I have intermittent GPS signal, but if it was using the native fused location provider this would work perfectly)

* Buttons have no touch feedback.

* It's not the platform standard navigation drawer

* It's not the platform standard action bar

* The touch drag on the navigation drawer lags behind the finger position more than it should

* Non-native map has really bad pinch-zoom-pan gestures

As an Android developer I'm sure I'm consciously noticing things that lots of other users might not, but if this is the best Cordova still has to offer... :/

On the passing of some individuals important to the community, HN occasionally adds a black bar to the top of the page as a sign of respect.

There's the new Screen Pinning feature in Android 5. It's not /quite/ the same thing, but it's definitely possible to use it as a kiosk mode thing.

I like the idea of Prezza being lifeisstillgood's own Lord

Why's that more alarming? "72 hours to stop the bill" is pretty alarming, but with the bill still in committee, there's still a a little longer for it to go yet. The third reading is scheduled in a fortnight.

> I can't actually think of anyone in that category in the Lords.

The two that immediately spring to mind are Lord Robert Winston and Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber.

In my experience, Books, Hangouts and Plus have all had some significant improvements made to them since they've been launched?

> Not paying Apple or Google a cut of every product sold via mobile was the revenue plan. If I pay Apple 30% of my profits every time someone orders something via my mobile app, that's a lot of money I can sink into a competing product before it becomes a net loss (assuming I get any traction at all).

I think the article discussed this mainly in the context of Kindle. It's only digital in app purchases that need to go through Apple's payment processing.

I don't think that's entirely fair. Surely the most useful measure of "wrong" is whether the user comes away with the correct answer?

Adverts on a webpage might definitely make it less likely that a user comes away with that answer, but I don't think they'd invalidate a user's successful result any more than gossiping with the librarian would invalidate their help if they successfully find an answer.

Don't some companies already run salary in thirteen four week periods? I've worked at at least one that did.

There's nothing quite like Instruments integrated well with Android Studio, sadly.