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Link not working in the UK due to copyright. This one does though https://youtu.be/L3pXnzBPT98?t=27s

It's from a comedy pilot called 'Golden Years' which is very clearly a development step towards 'The Office'.

Begins to sound like a science fiction novel where a bunch of sleep researchers discover that far from being 'down time' sleep is actually a period where our neural hardware is being used by beings from another dimension to perform some nefarious calculation. Or if Douglas Adams were still alive a P2P version of Deep Thought.

Yes I wonder if this is a little short sighted. Currently Uber needs to hire drivers who use their own cars. Once self drive vehicles become available they only need the cars. Given that most peoples cars spend the majority of their time parked, waiting to be used, that is an awful lot of potential cars for Uber to rent. I'd be very interested in having my car earning money while I'm at work or asleep.

Yes this too. I think I read GTD as too prescriptive and sought a single system. It took me a long time to realise that that wasn't necessary.

Yes I tend to agree. I still see people at work hunting for the correct folder to store email. Showing them how to use labels (in whatever client they are using) is often something of a revelation. Seeing the freedom you have just handed them can be quite surprising as well as a great way to get a free pint!

I'm a avid command-line and vim user and for a long time made use of text based todo and note taking tools. Whilst my naming schemes and structures always made perfectly logical sense, they never flowed when in use. After many years I concluded that I needed something more than just a river of text and started using tools like Trello and Todoist. Whilst my inner nerd feels like I have failed the command-line in some way, I'm really getting much more out of my tools than I have to put in.

I like the 'simplified job description'. All too often a job description is simply a list of technologies the last guy claimed to be using/have used/knew something about.

What about once they are older and want to play online games with their friends? Whilst you may be able to suggest open alternatives - I know my kids still enjoy the odd game of Open Arena with dad - it's not necessarily the best decision to exclude kids from what can be a significant social interaction.

PyPI for Python https://pypi.python.org/pypi

I can't see it really taking off until it has at least half a dozen web frameworks and a decent befunge binding layer.

It took me a minute to realise why there are only read and blue sections.

Without robots how will we fight our Capitalist overlords?

I live and work in Manchester UK and we dream of 7-8 months of rainy weather (rather than the actual 11 months).

Thats a really nice way to phrase a sentiment I, and I would guess many other HN'ers have long felt.

Best of luck with that. As someone who has taken medical imaging software through both, my preference would be to get CE marking first and allow the market and the device to become establish before going for a 510K. The FDA predicate device process together with the glacial speed of the agency means making modifications to a system is unnecessarily difficult which is something you will need to do when innovating in a market. I find the CE process to be a more pragmatic approach.

On some of the darker days with the FDA - and despite their 90 day target we had over 900 days between submission and final clearance - I found it helped to remember the famous Churchill quote; "When you are going through hell, keep going."

Failures?

Brilliant.

Given Apples 7.6% share of the 'PC' market as reported in 3Q15 (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3146617) I wouldn't be suprised that the vast majority of dropbox users are on Windows, simply because the vast majority of computer users are.

I'll admit I spent a couple of minutes trying to establish a link between paired programming and the 'less than 3' before my teenage daughter helped dad out.

Does anyone know what percentage of these loans are being repaid? I recall that a couple of years ago the press were quoting figures like 85% will never be repaid.

There is another way to read this title that creates a way more interesting mental image...

I always view London as a 'world capital' that just happens to reside in England.

For academic labs you can add 'perceived future commercial value' to that list. In my experience these groups are often run by people with little or no commercial experience and lack the skills to appreciate the difference between a prototype and a commercial solution. Coupled with the pressure from Universities to 'commercialize all the things' this can inhibit attempts to distribute the code freely.

Absolutely. The problem with statistics is not the maths but what it means. I think this is one reason why people become so easily unstuck with statistics, carelessly applying techniques to data without really understanding the assumptions or the subtly of the question being answered by the technique.

switch-for-me. I don't care who my household energy supplier is, I just want to pay the least each month without the hassle of monitoring my usage, comparing prices and administrating the transfer. You do it for me and you can keep a percentage of the saving.

Isn't the equation tragedy + time = comedy?

I think this is targeted at the scenario where the developer works in Lua but is deploying to platform without any Lua dependencies. Not sure if it will pull in any used packages though.

Perhaps "write like you want them to hear" is a better way to think about it as it acknowledges the inner voice the reader will use when they read.

No mention of linux support on this page but it does talk about RaspberryPi. [https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/208050637-What-are...]

I'm aware of a commercial application that uses computer vision to monitor a computer user's posture. http://www.postureminder.co.uk/

Yep, essentially lots of 'not quites' with the current system.

I want phone-as-easy-as-email. I logon and immediately calls are routed to that device and I can pick up voicemail, make calls and send texts. If I have another phone account I can use the same handset to log into that account at the same time and all calls to that number get routed to the device as well. If the device has radio hardware (such as phone handset) it uses the radio network otherwise it uses wifi or whatever other network comms that device has. When I logout it all stops.

As a customer that's the interface to 'phone' that I want. Phone is soft, not hard.