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woofon iPad 9.7‑inch

Correct, the oldest iPad running iOS 10 is the first Retina -aka iPad 4.

I bought mine in 2012, still using it daily.

woofon Monte Carlo estimation of Pi

One hour Radiolab worth listening to:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91684-stochasticity/

woofon Differences between San Francisco and London (2014)

"Living in London is not living in Europe"

Could you explain that sentence? Please.

woofon Monte Carlo estimation of Pi

"Does that look random to you?" https://youtu.be/M34TO71SKGk?t=1m20s

Golden!

woofon PyCharm Edu: Python IDE to Learn Programming Quickly and Efficiently

The Air is my private machine and I bought for size/form factor (aka travel).

I had a MacBook Pro 15" (far better spec'd) at the time, but left it at home/work due to size and weight. The 11" Air fits "everywhere" and still has a full size keyboard and a good trackpad.

My Late 2013 MacBook Pro (bought early 2014) is a 2,3GhZ i7, 16GB memory and 500GB SSD. Compiling, VirtualBox/Parallels and Docker is less painful, but 99% of the time the old 11" Air is good enough.

woofon PyCharm Edu: Python IDE to Learn Programming Quickly and Efficiently

It was considered slow 4 years ago, but I bought it for the form factor (and still use it daily).

PyCharm, Django and PostgreSQL runs ok, but it's too slow for docker.

Anything slower is useless for (modern) development and if you're a student on a budget there's loads of used or refurbished PCs on ebay costing $100 or even less.

woofon PyCharm Edu: Python IDE to Learn Programming Quickly and Efficiently

PyCharm works fine on my 2013 Macbook Air 11" (1,3GhZ i5 with 4GB RAM and a rather slow 128GB SSD).

woofon PyCharm Edu: Python IDE to Learn Programming Quickly and Efficiently

PyCharm is awsome! And I say that as a 20 years+ (and counting) emacs user.

If you program python (especially Django), you should give PyCharm a go!

woofon New ways to foot the hefty bill for making old ships less polluting

You'd find the biggest hypocrites among all the consumers buying goods shipped around the world on those ships.

woofon Stop Fabricating Travel Security Advice

Blank as in "wiped" or blank as in "wiped, reinstalled OS and apps, configured for the user but with no corporate data on the device"?

woofon More on GVFS

Outside the "industry" (aka the small world of GNOME and KDE), GVFS is not commonly known at all.

For the Gnome community this might be both poor and confusing, for the rest of us it's ... meh.

woofon GitLab Database Incident – Live Report

Awsome postmortem -is there any thing you would do differently today?

What's your most valuable lesson from that incident?

You're hired!

woofon Tesla Model S: the story of a very short happiness and excitement

tldr: The author was excited about getting a working Tesla, for the price he paid for a supposedly working Tesla, which turned out to be false.

woofon Staying with the US Digital Service

Even better than Stalin?

Or was your use of the word "inarguably" some kind of code?

woofon U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Tandem

https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-th...

I believe US numbers excludes juvenile detention, but hey...

woofon Faster Images using HTTP2 and Progressive JPEGs

So responsive web sites, using ie. bootstrap and picturefill are lazy these days?

woofon Faster Images using HTTP2 and Progressive JPEGs

<picture> with multiple srcset makes it possible to serve images that are displayed at 100% width, filling their (DOM) container.

Check out http://scottjehl.github.io/picturefill/

woofon Faster Images using HTTP2 and Progressive JPEGs

And what dimensions would you prefer?

Small, medium, large?

And what kind of display would you like those for?

1x, 2x or maybe 3x?

woofon Year of Upheaval for Restaurants That Ended Tipping

This Freakonomics episode from 2013 is well worth spending 37 minutes on before commenting. Or tipping...

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/should-tipping-be-banned-a-n...

woofon India's Misguided War on Cash

And ignorance.

Surprised Bloomberg accepts that kind of nonsense...

woofon India's Misguided War on Cash

The editors at Bloomberg should do their job (edit)!

Read this FT article instead:

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/11/21/2180031/the-curse-of-...

woofon Kaspersky OS

Unbreakable?

From a company based in Russia?

Really?

woofon Doctors used an ER patient's FitBit data to justify electrical cardioversion

From the article: "It wasn't clear, though, when it had started"

woofon Five Open-Source Slack Alternatives

"I frequently interact with at least 25 people just to do my job"

Frequently, not ten messages in total.

Email works fine for non important sporadic communication.

woofon Five Open-Source Slack Alternatives

$6.67/month is less than $0.33/day (~20 workdays/month)!

That's an trivial amount to pay for effective communications in my book.

woofon An Ex-Cop's War on Lie Detectors

Or you could just explain what you are talking about.

woofon Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are

Go figure, root.

woofon Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are

Why on earth are you logged in as root? man sudo