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It really is great, I've been using it for years -- and all my notes are stored as plain-text (markdown) files. Only downside is images really. If you want to try it, check out this more-recently-updated fork. The creator of the fork is apparently working on a replacement that I'm rather looking forward to trying.

http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

I'm not sure about a regular ocean transport, but you could take a cruise ship between Southampton, UK and Key West, Miami or New Orleans. They're not particularly regular, on top of the additional cost/time constraints.

I thought that was exactly the point? Who is it intended to protect you from?

My guess is they've accidentally hit siri/dictation and it's picked up someone speaking in the background.

Apparently the latest beta (10.12.1) has support for this natively.

https://github.com/tekezo/Seil/issues/68#issuecomment-250195...

Yeah, that's super weird. I'm assuming not deliberate.

Safari 9.1.2 on OS X 10.11.6

You only have two upcoming events in Manchester, so it's probably worth pointing out this http://technw.uk/calendar for the north west.

I stole the following from a colleagues `.vimrc` which finally allowed me to learn `hjkl`. Now I forget I have this set, and when I do accidentally use an arrow key it makes me laugh.

    map <Left> :echo 'damnit!'<cr>
    map <Right> :echo 'you suck!'<cr>
    map <Up> :echo 'this is why you fail'<cr>
    map <Down> :echo 'nooooo!'<cr>

No C# (or .NET) on there at all?

Just to counter my fellow countryfolk, and because anecdata is the best kind of data, I have definitely heard it called that before ... though not so much recently. Perhaps it's a dying term?

There was only one app showing up in search for the word plex. I'm sure that helped too.

Sometimes the real HN reads like this for me. It's how I know I'm tired, and should go to bed immediately after reading one more story.

Interesting point. Why isn't the unicode standard just "obscene hand gesture" (or similar?) and then localisation can take care of the rest?

Already down for me in the UK.

edit: 20 mins later and it's back

And I thought of Introversion's posts on their now-cancelled subversion game http://www.introversion.co.uk/subversion/. Particularly the early posts, though I think this is the last one they did about the city generator: http://forums.introversion.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=41634

I'm curious if there is a reason you don't use Quicktime's built in screen-record functionality?

Slightly OT, but I'd be tempted to argue TV Shows can and do have bugs; plot holes, bad acting, continuity errors et al. They can be quite jarring.

The idea is sound, but what about those of us who listen to Spotify/Rdio/et al. rather than having an iTunes collection?

There's also Last.fm. Everything I listen to (or at least as much as reasonably possible) get's scrobbled. I believe it's this feed that my songkick account uses. It'd be nice to get integration with that!

While the plural of anecdote is not data, I've seen pretty much these exact same figures. The Uber's here look identical to our normal private hire taxi's though, so I'm assuming their drivers are in fact legally compliant?

For the record, all the drivers I've spoken to have worked for a local company beforehand and, while earning about the same amount, are far happier now.

I was under the impression that a shared folder only uses up the original creators space, rather than on each shared member. Is that not the case?

edit: Clearly I was mistaken, thanks for the correction(s)!

It's been a long long time, but I'm pretty sure that looks like the set up used for alcohol titration ... which at least at my school we did in teams for 4 or so. Did you not do this? If I did it, I'd assume that it's a standard part of the UK Curriculum (though again, that was some time ago).

A quick google appears to back me up to some degree?[1] (See "Student Activity 3")

[1]: http://www.scienceinschool.org/2012/issue24/wine

I'm actually from Scunthorpe. Being quite young and innocent, we never actually knew the particular offensive word contained within until we had to work out why the school computers were changing our town name to SXXXXhorpe.

The reviewer mentions they're reviewing the November 2013 Haswell Refresh. My work laptop is the Feb 2013 1080p version, and as an Apple fan I must say I'm very impressed with the quality of this machine... and the 1080p screen is really fantastic.

Perhaps it's worth updating the title to mention that this was delivered by Edward Snowden.

  Q: But owls aren’t robots, they’re birds.
  A: That’s the end of the questions, thank you.

Ha, nice to companies having a bit of fun. Worth the quick read.

I'd rather have companies release occasional posts like this throughout the year, rather than everyone trying to cram theirs into the 1st April.

For companies that trust giant corporations more than their employees.

Fortunately for amazon, I think there's probably plenty of those companies out there.

Presumably the upside is that it's easy to use for non-techy types. I implemented a system with markdown editing for a charity I help out at, and everyone has freaked out about the markdown editing. I've been looking for a dead-simple editor I can give them .. and this looks interesting option.

I'm in the UK too, and I believe it was frontpage BBC news for a fair while. Also, don't underestimate the network effect of twitter & facebook for the non-tech crowd ... if people see their friends moaning about their woes I would suggest it is likely to make them think twice. How many people were making positive comments about sim city during it's launch period?

The way handled this game is really quite sad. I was excited for it, the previews looked promising ... but the fact that the server performance was newsworthy, and the small-city problem, meant that I never bothered buying it. I imagine I'm not alone.

Not having actually bought the game I can't say for sure, but I wonder if the much-touted online features haven't been as popular as they hoped ... which means that this now 7-month old game is probably quite expensive for them to keep running into perpetuity. Ripping the online features out, and allowing offline only, could allow them to save on running costs?

And of course they'll pull the plug in 18 months or so thus leaving people wanting for a replacement :P