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New comment by jimbobjim in "The USB Situation"

jimbobjim — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:00:39 +0000

Those are out of spec though so should be used with caution.

New comment by jimbobjim in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

jimbobjim — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:45:24 +0000

The blank cards they sell are great. We borrow audio books from the library and I rip them to a card, you can reuse them as well so don’t need to buy too many. I also put radio streams on them, like classical stations for when my sons going to bed.

New comment by jimbobjim in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

jimbobjim — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:27:52 +0000

I’ve had an issue with it before in my work MacBook. It would just keep causing the system to hang, making the computer unusable. Had to get IT to remove it.

New comment by jimbobjim in "There's something off about LED bulbs"

jimbobjim — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:09:57 +0000

The Phillips bulbs I bought have a ridiculously high failure rate. About half have failed within 6 months. Much worse than the supermarket own brands, or cheaper ones from Amazon.

New comment by jimbobjim in "New iPhone SE"

jimbobjim — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:28:59 +0000

I’d never used a case until I got the iPhone 8 and had to buy one because of how slippery it is! Unless you put it on a perfectly flat surface it will just slide off on to the floor.

New comment by jimbobjim in "Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment"

jimbobjim — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:07:40 +0000

You’re able to create custom apps for businesses where you can distribute to selected businesses, although you still need to go through the App Store approval process. You can also require a login to your app to restrict who can use it.

New comment by jimbobjim in "Stories of Steve Jobs in Safari Design Reviews (2014)"

jimbobjim — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:55:44 +0000

There’s a toggle for it in one of the menus, the status bar shows when you hover over a link.

New comment by jimbobjim in "I woke up unable to speak English"

jimbobjim — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 20:05:25 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think there are any cases of people with brain injuries speaking languages they couldn’t speak before. And any foreign accent is a case of someone’s speech becoming distorted and coincidentally sounding similar to another accent.

New comment by jimbobjim in "App sizes are out of control"

jimbobjim — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:27:32 +0000

The reason the LinkedIn app is so big is the number of frameworks they use. 87 frameworks accounting for 248MB of the 277. The swift runtime takes up about 20MB, and something called VoyagerFeed takes up over 190. All the images actually only make up about 12MB. There's also about 0.5MB for each localisation.

New comment by jimbobjim in "iPhone 5 with iOS 7 randomly shuts off"

jimbobjim — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:36:52 +0000

This is exactly what happens to me when the batteries around 10-20%. If I leave it for 10 minutes it will switch on again and the battery isn't drained, it usually switches off when I try to play music or use the map, but not just navigating the phone. I wonder if the battery does just need replacing though, but strange that I have only noticed this since installing iOS7.

New comment by jimbobjim in "Making iOS 7 squircles using CSS3"

jimbobjim — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:31:09 +0000

I thought Nokia 'owned' the squircle http://interuserface.net/2011/06/own-a-shape/

New comment by jimbobjim in "How would the unprotected human body react to the vacuum of outer space?"

jimbobjim — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:30:52 +0000

Hyperventilating actually reduces the amount of CO2 in the body, a build up of CO2 is what creates the need to take a breath. (One of the few things I remember from scuba diving).

New comment by jimbobjim in "Ask HN: What are the Must-Have Apps for OS X as Web Developers point of view?"

jimbobjim — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:38:01 +0000

That's what Apple call them now, like it or not.

PCs in business – your two year warning

jimbobjim — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:07:19 +0000

Article URL: http://mubaloo.com/news-info/pcs-in-business-your-two-year-warning

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5303726

Points: 1

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New comment by jimbobjim in "Analytics for Everyone"

jimbobjim — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:09:50 +0000

I like how they manage to quote themselves from a TechCrunch article. "Bringing Data Together" says their CEO.