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Yes it did an infra-red dot map of the face.

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Amazing, -4 for mentioning this isn't a new feature. This is exactly how the kinect works, how windows hello enabled webcams work.

I had this feature on my 950 (Windows Phone). It was poor.

Slower and more error prone. Environmental changes such as extreme lighting (being outside) or wearing sunglasses stopped it from working.

Windows Hello and compatible webcams work really well in a stable desktop environment mind. I've just rolled them out across my firm.

Turns out the solution to every stack overflow post will be

"JavaScript is required"

London, in the City, so yes, it's our fault. But it also adds that kind of prestige that people expect.

Office Space, after salaries and employer taxes is our biggest per employee cost.

The thing is sometimes you find something helpful, but don't think they are exactly an artist. I'm slightly ashamed that I couldn't figure out how to put the batteries in the Amazon wand they'd sent me, a quick search and a YouTube video showed me what the instructions missing hadn't, tug it forcefully.

That kind of thing isn't useful enough for patronage. But it would be nice to be able to throw a nice little tip.

Are there many people who will want the 18-core option, but not have multiple GPUs without a bottleneck of thunderbolt?

Which is kind of funny, because every pilot knows the limitation of each kind of autopilot. I think a lot of it is public expectation of that kind of name.

I did that too.

I'd only been in London about 2 days, I jumped up like a good boy scout, conscious of the fact I was in the "priority seat" (for those outside of London our tubes have the nearest seats to the door reserved for those less able or up the duff).

This lady burst into tears. I tried to apologise, then just got off and walked.

Since then I've firmly put the impetus on those in need to ask.

But this can be better.

I'll have taken about 8 weeks holiday this year. But for about half of it I'll do 30 min or even 2 hours work. Actually it's been less than half.

That's a pretty sweet deal. I've still got that ability to take a good few contiguous days off, completely relaxing so to speak. But I'm more relaxed after spending 5 min checking on progress in my absence, as I know when I come back to work full time, it won't be hell.

This is quite nice to see, when I first heard about osquery, I thought "cool WMI (well WQL) for Linux"

The price for EpiPens went up because no one else was able to make a competing product that didn't malfunction or deliver the wrong dose of epinephrine.

Price hasn't gone up as much in the UK where a state monopoly negotiates.

It's also about having very correct details in this case.

If she had bothered to apply for the correct VISA there wouldn't have been an issue, but they clearly feel they are a special little snowflake because animation API is more important than a standardised work VISA system.

I'm sorry but I strongly disagree with your assertion. Honesty and preparation IS the best policy. Imagine if I'd lied when I was detained in Tampa because of some missing clearance the US Embassy in London had forgotten to do. I had to wait hours in a holding area. I'd paid $200 USD for that. One little lie and the situation would have been far worse.

Which is true enough. Maybe they should look at iTunes on Windows for a good example of why it's horrible to ignore the host UI designs.

Or maybe QuickTime.

I find the windows phone keyboard suggestions much better than any other I've used. Despite now having an iPhone 6s from work I still use a WP as my daily go to because it's much better at writing a whatsapp or email message, even if the 'other' apps suck.

I'm also heavily dyslexic, so I might be an outliar.

But what about the street repairs card?

IIRC it is only 2-3 times the price of a house for a hotel.

Pretty much any CS6 application will being the tablet to its knees and nearly burnt my lap.

That's not what I find with my i7 sp3. Instead I find that it struggles to cool itself when the CPU is running at max for a period of time. Worse when I was living in Singapore I would have to have the AC on if I didn't want it to throttle itself as the ambient temp was 30°C.

It's not as if it's found it's way in to .ts files, only to .tsx files.

As someone who's organisation has spent a lot of time making our front end in ReactJS this is going to be very useful for us, and the 'corruption' that is the cast operator becoming 'as' will be manageable as it's only in .tsx files.

For what it's worth I'm happily using the modern incantation of WebTV, my FireTV Stick.

I have my 'TV' on demand, whenever I want it, I can run some web related apps, even hacked something together for controlling my lights.

I don't think WebTV was a bad idea. I think it was just too early and lacked that critical video on demand concept.

In the UK there was a gap for a long time that was filled by 'Smart' functions of Sky TV's digibox. This used a modem to upload content, and allowed for receiving of good quality video from sat, as a result you could watch the 'latest' films, for around £3 and only have to wait a few minutes before it would start. Automatically from the box interface, rather than via a call centre. But this was just the start, shopping was possible, you could order products and the like.

Now we live in a world where Amazon Instant isn't even on my desktop web browser, instead needing an 'app' for a phone, and apparently mine isn't even supported. There are lots of people who want to consume 'web' functions from a device other than a computer.

I too have had some mixed experiences. A B&B in Rome, where the host had elegantly decorated our room, provided fresh flowers each day all whilst respecting our privacy.

Contrasted with a flat in residential block where one of the neighbours started shouting loudly at my girlfriend, I do not speak French (she is fluent) and didn't have any idea if things where about to get violent.

It turns out the previous guests had been making lots of noise late at night, being tourists we where of course staying up much later than we would normally. It's embarrassing having someone complain about your sex noises.

Another time we simply couldn't find or contact the host. Airbnb did not help in this matter at all. Contrasted to a friends experience on NYE when a booking.com room turned out to not be available, he ended up in the Shangri La hotel. It's clear AirBnB doesn't help you when things go wrong. As such I'd never use them for an important visit, or a visit during an event.

I would have been a blue band in your system. My parents moved to Cornwall when I was child, surrounded on 3 sides by water, I gained my surf lifesaving certificate, I was a good swimmer.

Almost two decades passes. I'm in Bali, on a deserted beach with my ex because we "don't want the average experience" or whatever. A small argument and I decide I want a swim. I walk out through the surf, my mind overcome with thoughts of the pathetic argument. I don't think about the undulating sand beneath my feet, but I should. Not even 2 minutes into my swim and I'm out a good 200m. I've swam 10km before in the sea, I'm fit enough, but I had been in a bicycle accident and fractured my dominant arm just 8 weeks prior. My natural confidence, my training, my accolades had resulted in my taking an unknown sea for granted. I looked to the sure, my girlfriend had vanished, no doubt going to lick her wounds from our previous verbal exchange.

I can honestly say the human mind is a strange thing under pressure. I thought back to being 12 and outright laughing at the tourists (emits, slang for ants in Cornish) who died every year often through a mix of alcohol and poor planning. The realisation of such past hubris was overwhelming. I also realised that the people I knew from there would be laughing at my death. I was now well over 1km from shore. My mind kicked in properly, I started swimming hard normal to the rip tide. After 5 minutes of treading water and thinking hard some rocks where looking achievable, so I decided to give it all in the hope of getting there, a fast sprint was my plan and thankfully this worked.

If ever I thought I'd given 100% to a physical activity before I was mistaken. My legs bore the brunt of this assault, my upper-body was uncoordinated due to the cycling injury. My watch was telling me I had been hard going for barely 10 minutes. I was not even half the way, my fear I think allowed for adrenaline to kick in, I was at this point making peace with death of drowning, as an asthmatic a death that has always scared me.

I made it to the rocks and to my joy I didn't need to climb along them, the rip tide was no more. I made it to shore. A half hour swim that had been like no other I've ever had and I hope will ever have. I was so upset with my ex for leaving me. Not watching nor caring as I had asked and she agreed. Going into the unknown water without someone aware is folly and I thought she would be observing me. Anger and most likely just bordem resulted in her not doing so.

TLDR: I was a good swimmer, I still so very nearly killed myself. Knowing when someone is in trouble requires education.

Fairly sure I remember using VisualStudio to debug some JavaScript back in the early 00s.

I want to work with talented, motivated programmers, not people who made it through a non-technical HR screen.

The problem is, this sounds good, but in reality the world doesn't work like this. Hiring is complex, there are many legal implications of the interview process, I had to correct one of my employees just yesterday because he said the word "young", this is a big no no in the UK, we can't look for a "young person". I had to clarify and expand that he meant this is an entry level position designed for people looking to get exposure to certain technologies in an environment that will foster their ambitions and provide opportunities for growth as we expand. Fun this stuff isn't it, few developers want to learn these rules.

This is why in large firms you end up having to let HR handle things. No one is going to ask us, why out of our 12 employees, we've no one who is transgender, but if we had 1000 people, we would need to demonstrate that it's entirely because we haven't had anyone apply, not because we have turned them all down.

As firms get larger, responsibilities get divided into lines that are more immutable, sadly this will mean the person doing the first stage of the hiring probably knows nothing about computer science, but may well have an excellent understanding of team psychology and HR laws.

When I read a comment like your last one, I find it slightly saddening, it reminds me of being in Hong Kong last month, a friend of mine wouldn't even try the pickled ducks tongue, I've no idea why, he eats pate, but outright refused to even take a bite. I fear you are talking out of complete ignorance.

There are some teams in the big corporate firms that I'd rather quit (and have done!) than join, but there are also ones where I've worked with some of the best developers, mathematicians and scientists I've ever met, that's a fairly high bar. One in particular had a 'cap' of £250k per year for a developer, to give you an idea the average price is £60k. This big finance firm realised the value the right developers have, the money was symbolic, we had budget for anything we could remotely justify (PCIe SSDs when they were unheard of etc) we had very good levels of autonomy too, with a relaxed working environment, even if other people on other floors were wearing suits. I've also worked for a 'brogrammer startup' that I ended up quitting swiftly as they were breaking the law. I wouldn't project my experiences out to the whole set, only keep in mind that there are interesting opportunities everywhere, understand their barriers and obviously tailor my CV to fit each application.

It is foolish to write them all off, and frankly portrays that element of dismissing something you don't understand, which I find to be very poor trait for an engineer.

You're only doing yourself a disservice by catering to organizations with crappy hiring practices. Good luck!

I'm a CTO of a multi million pound firm now. But it did work for me very well when I was just a developer. I wouldn't be so quick to write it off.

Some of the big firms I've worked for absolutely did get hundreds of applications each day for jobs, especially ones aimed at graduates. They can afford to take the risk of missing a good candidate because they had T-SQL, but not SQL.

I wouldn't want to work at a place where the other members of my team are determined by someone unqualified.

But it's a big firm, they've got to comply with both UK employment law and the German rules too.

They get 1000s of applications, so they need to filter them, it's time that's far to important to spend on a developer, I mean they are short of them too.

So I'll stick it on, probably in a format that makes it obvious to a technical person, I consider this an expansion of the bullet point technology.

I appreciate it's not a good way to start a conversation, but do you mind my asking how old you are?

When the iPhone launched, people like me [0] couldn't really understand it. I was a top five percentile earner in the UK, but still new to that bracket having only recently left uni. I was used to mobile phones being expensive at £400 commitment, £1800 (Uk price with minimum O2 exclusive contract) was unbelievable to me.

I made the mistake of looking at the original iPhone, and seeing something that was slow (no 3G), didn't have GPS (recently moved to London, I needed my GPS-maps!) and didn't support any third party applications. It was a joke. It sold buckets loads.

The problem was before that mobile apps were a limited affair. We had things like google maps on smartphones, but not much effort went in. We had a few games, but no one was really pushing serious money in that direction.

The iPhone became a fashion hit. It was the must have for the 20-something plus who could afford it, it was a status symbol because of price. Everything about it was worse than phones on the market, it took ages to make a call, writing a text took considerably longer. It simply didn't make sense as a phone.

However it became a platform. Companies from all walks of life, some who hadn't really bothered to have a website suddenly needed an 'App' for their marketing team to be happy. This created such gravity, people thought that Android would never be able to compete.

The internals of it were not really special at all, it was quite slow, the screen resolution awfully poor. It wasn't until the 4 addressed that last major concern I bought one.

[0] http://forums.hexus.net/iphone-ios/110525-iphone-demo.html#p...

but how was the situation that led to your decision any different than the 99 other startups that were just as lame but didn't make it?

Sometimes I think people look at where a company is, rather than it's direction, it's velocity.

I really wish I could buy one, but alas it's not in the UK yet.

I like the concept, I like the sensors and I love that it's cross phone platform.

I've no idea why they are taking so long to get to other markets. Please don't make this the next Zune.

It's not the hype, for me I use JavaScript because I have no choice. I dislike many things about it, but I have no choice, I need my code to run in the web browser, no plug in, no Flash or Silverlight etc.

For my start up, I can't see a single reason why we'd use PHP, try to not think of it as me saying PHP is bad, it's just other languages and frameworks offer us more value.

I've had my phone stolen before, but never my door keys.

Now I can experience a much bigger problem if I'm mugged again.