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Moto 360 Gen2

Mainly use it to get a glance at messages (Hangouts etc.), control music while on the go and to track my fitness goals.

I'm working on a Raspberry Pi powered doorbell/camera, so I'm looking forward to making the companion app and wear app.

In the UK both of the BS 1363 plugs have metal earth pins yet only the extended cable version connects to earth on the adapter. I have definitely felt a small vibration/shock from my MBP's case when using the uncabled plug with disconnected earth.

If only I could edit my DNA, using this resource.

> Regarding Nexus, I wouldn't trust Google since it screw owners with TI chipsets.

That's not a very good reason to not buy a Nexus phone, since every Nexus phone since the Nexus 4 has used a Qualcomm Snapdragon.

Rockets are heavy.

I support Wikipedia's efforts and would gladly donate once they sort out the NPOV issues on the site. A lot of power users think NPOV is their POV and revert anything they don't agree with.

> A slim phone plus a "bulky" lightning to 3.5mm adapter doesn't sound like something Apple would do.

Oh no, that sounds exactly what Apple would do.

Humans could, if we (as a species) could all work towards survival, the most powerful feature we have evolved is the intelligence to adapt rapidly within lifetimes rather than over millennia.

I'd like to think most countries would band together to be able to survive a sudden event as all of their survival is dependant on it.

I'd say most species couldn't adapt before a sudden event (how would they know?) but can adapt to the after effects of such event.

The adblocker blocker has been fixed by an anti-adblocker blocker (e.g. anti-adblock killer), I'm sure they'll figure out an anti-anti-adblocker blocker soon enough.

(Try saying that out loud quickly.)

This is really interesting, but seeing the woman's right eye move down slightly in the angry/sad scene had freaked me out a bit.

I don't remember being "trained" to be loud and space-demanding? And I don't remember my wife being "trained" to deal with it.

Society is ever changing rubbery blob that's being melded into different shapes based on what people do, have done or will do.

You can't just go ahead and make large generalisations about men or women without any backlash, especially on the internet.

I'm sure if I made a comment saying all women should be/are xyz on twitter, I sure as hell would be trolled/attacked; it's what you as a person deals with it.

Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark.

I'm 23 and I started out as an IT support apprentice 4 years ago after dropping out of college (high school?) twice here in the UK, then after working a few different jobs, working up from application support to build/release engineer. I'm now a contract software engineer with a significant day rate. I'm now working in the evenings and weekends to take the next step and create a product to sell, just don't have a "good" idea yet.

Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull in the future?

Perhaps we should be encouraging consumer router software/hardware to be more reliable rather than create a solution that doesn't fix the problem.

(2012)

The problem is that even if it is a giant PR exercise, it's still sucking talent away from the Midlands and the North.

There's a somewhat large group of startups here in Birmingham and there is a significant lack of talent (unless you want cookie cutter Microsoft technology developers) and investors. I started my own company to work on a project and I'm contracting at the moment to keep myself going and I still get asked if I want to join someone's startup as their first software engineer.

I don't know what it is with node.js but people seem to want to reinvent everything with it.

It's the same tactics the social protestors at universities are using.

Why not, are you afraid of hurting someone's feelings?

I'm sure a lot of people already suspected this, in 2013 a Facebook engineer proudly stated that they've hacked their way around a dalvik vm limitation[0] for their app to work on Android 2.2-2.3.

It's the attitude that "hacking things to work is okay" is causing extremely bad reliability issues even when using a top of the range android phone or latest iOS device.

Have they ever thought that maybe 18,000 classes is a bit too much?

Absolutely nightmarish way of working.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...

I can't imagine these roaming around the streets of Birmingham, they'll just be picked up and dismantled for cash.

For anyone who doesn't know, as a non-binding resolution this means any/all of the member states can ignore it without consequence.

I love square kufi even though I can't read it, I assume it's impractical for a typeface? http://www.sakkal.com/instrctn/sq_kufi_hashem.html

My favourite is http://currentcondition.org/, having the visuals up on a spare screen is a plus also!

I use HTTPie which is similar and easily installed through pip.

https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie

What would you suggest as an alternative to AWS?

Who gives a crap about some dumb website for nerds. /s

Ha, reminds me of the Class 323's we have in Birmingham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y25aCRWgvWc

You don't need to use Unity with Ubuntu, I use the Ubuntu Gnome "official flavour".