Hacker News: grahamel

New comment by grahamel in "Siri, What Time Is It in London?"

grahamel — Fri, 22 May 2020 15:44:05 +0000

had similar encounters with people asking how much longer it will take to get to Ashford as their Eurostar train leaves soon while on a train that stops at Ashford (Middlesex) instead of Ashford International, in Kent

Beer rating app reveals homes and identities of spies and military bods

grahamel — Thu, 21 May 2020 10:53:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/19/bellingcat_beer_app_osint/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23256898

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by grahamel in "British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs"

grahamel — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 12:40:34 +0000

that is a huge generalisation!

London has the largest fish, meat, and veg markets in the UK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_markets_in_London#Whol...) sourcing fresh every day

you don't need to right be next to a field to have fresh produce every day and yes, there are plenty of farms near London

New comment by grahamel in "What happens when the maintainer of a JavaScript library goes to prison?"

grahamel — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:32:42 +0000

Full title "What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorcycle? Core-js just found out"

What happens when the maintainer of a JavaScript library goes to prison?

grahamel — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:32:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/26/corejs_maintainer_jailed_code_release/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692851

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

Danish Rubjerg lighthouse moved inland on skates

grahamel — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:44:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50139900

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21323506

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Click the Button

grahamel — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 09:31:55 +0000

Article URL: https://codepen.io/bnhovde/full/OJLYGKx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21246430

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Trying to get answers from Uber how my driver managed to drive me halfway up UK

grahamel — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:42:34 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Plastician/status/1182234740511985664

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21212888

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Why aren't we living longer?

grahamel — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 20:23:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49844804

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21161570

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by grahamel in "My derelict pub still got TripAdvisor reviews"

grahamel — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:15:45 +0000

hn comments on that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861136

New comment by grahamel in "My derelict pub still got TripAdvisor reviews"

grahamel — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:14:07 +0000

Exactly that - my partner's company constantly get negative GlassDoor reviews because there is a different company with a similar name in India

New comment by grahamel in "[dead]"

grahamel — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:09:26 +0000

ah I see, yeah that annoys me too

it just seems to be the way the bbc do things, the "Rare ingredient..." title is on the main page http://www.bbc.com/travel/columns/food-hospitality, in fact that whole page is massively click-baity compared to the actual article titles

New comment by grahamel in "I Won’t Buy My Teenagers Smartphones"

grahamel — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:36:17 +0000

it's a shame we don't hear the kids side in the article

people I know who have done this have eventually changed and allowed/bought a phone as the in school peer pressure was huge and the kids ended up feeling excluded from their social groups as not fitting in (nothing wrong with kids finding their own path btw)

New comment by grahamel in "[dead]"

grahamel — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:09:45 +0000

on the side note it looks like that is the deputy editor of the bbc.com travel section https://twitter.com/collectingmiles nothing wrong with promoting your teams work I guess, even if you do so silently

looking down the list of submissions interesting to see which articles pick up comments and which don't

Bouncing Bomb

grahamel — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:40:57 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895082

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by grahamel in "Lego to open 160 new stores as other toy retailers suffer"

grahamel — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 08:52:36 +0000

also it seems they thrive on their focus on price - I'm sure a fair part of that is in the licencing of the tie-ins - but you never see them in a race to the bottom

New comment by grahamel in "Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis"

grahamel — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:12:27 +0000

decriminalized only

New comment by grahamel in "Suburb in the sky: how Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall"

grahamel — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:15:32 +0000

there is a similar thing in Brighton where there is a whole block of flats built above (presumably at the same time) as a multistory car park

when you park there it does look like they were just dropped on top

https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Brighton/@50.8225466,-0...

Chernobyl vodka: First consumer product made in exclusion zone

grahamel — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 10:30:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49251471

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643236

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by grahamel in "No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers"

grahamel — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:30:02 +0000

exactly - I had a similar learning curve (and no CS degree) where I could never remember what certain methods did but I knew exactly what to google for the answer