paulbennett's comments

> I think the game that impressed me most at the time was Need For Speed 2 Special Edition, before the card I had it installed and played, but the "Special Edition" was for being compatible with 3DFX and adding additional features, in addition to the smoothed textures, in a track mosquitoes were sticking to the screen, I do not remember what other special features.

I think NFS2SE had transparent glass if you had a 3DFX card, or maybe that was NFS3, I remember wishing I had one either way!

In its current state this doesn't appear to do more than a bluetooth OBD adapter paired with a cheap tablet can do - its really nothing like a Tesla touch screen at the moment, I guess the blog post title is just marketing.

Their use cases page however does a better job of showing what could be possible: https://www.autopi.io/use-cases/

I'm not entirely sure, however running the pump without actually heating the water seems like a waste of energy. Maybe that's how this boiler works though, I'd be interested to know more from the OP.

I mentioned this on the previous HN topic, the way the heating temperature is being controlled doesn't look correct to me. In all the boilers I've used the dial the servo is turning adjusts the temperature of the water being sent through the heating loop (to a blower or radiators) - this is not the heating thermostat. Generally you set this once and don't need to adjust it again, the thermostat does the work of turning the boiler on and off depending on when heat is required.

Similarly the dial above adjusts the domestic hot water temperature, while the system is running. Again, you rarely need to change it once its set to a temperature you are happy with.

Maybe I'm not understanding how this boiler works?

Not only is it baffling to me also, its annoying as well. I came from the UK where I would order a week's shopping and get it delivered Saturday morning. I never had to visit the store and placing an order took maybe 20 minutes.

Now I live in downtown Toronto and I have to walk to the store (no car here) a carry groceries home, which means at best I can purchase a few day's worth of food at a time.

I would so gladly pay a reasonable amount for delivery, and I don't mean these bespoke pick-everything-and-deliver-within-an-hour services - I just want to be able to choose a time, pay maybe $5-$10 and have a week's worth of food delivered. Is that so hard Loblaws?

Why as a renter would I want to use your service over a traditional letting agency? They also provide legal services, handling of finances and often handling of maintenance and repairs etc.

The main difference I see here is using clout as a company to reduce or remove the rent deposit, and as other comments have mentioned some additional concierge services, is that worth an extra fee on top of my rent?

I have rented in the UK before, I am currently a landlord in the UK. Filling in paperwork, providing references etc. isn't particularly difficult or time consuming and I wouldn't pay £99/month myself personally to have that done for me. Maybe a one off fee.

In the UK (and I'm sure many other places in the world) rental agencies already provide the services you are describing. As a UK single-family home landlord I ask my rental agency to find me tenants, run background checks, handle deposits, rent and other finances etc. For this I pay them 5-10% of the rental income/month. They will also handle repairs etc. if I need them to and bill me accordingly. This is a great service for me as a landlord who lives abroad because it greatly reduces the amount of time I have to spend dealing with my property to maybe a couple of hours every few months.

I'm a bit confused here; looking at the video and pics of your water heater/boiler, the knob the servo is turning looks like it sets the temperature the boiler heats the water to for the central heating loop. This is generally not the thermostat, and once set to a value you are happy with shouldn't need to be adjusted.

This is interesting for me because I am moving to Toronto in July, I've done research into how much I should be expecting to earn but some anecdotal evidence is always welcome too.

The numbers compared to my current employment in Cambridge, UK seem fairly similar, I believe living costs are pretty similar too. Not all of us have the ability, or the desire to move to the US!

Performance seems fine (on a Pi 2). I am going to have to add some URLs to the whitelist though, as it has recently started affecting the ability to log into Xbox Live.

About 30-50 I would guess. You can easily listen to more than that with a streaming service.

The main arguments it presents against JIRA seems to be:

* Its slow - well maybe, although IME its adequate. Our current project has just over 5000 tickets and I rarely have speed issues when filtering, searching etc. Other teams in the company have projects with many times more tickets than ours.

* It doesn't look great - I guess its not the prettiest thing, there are certainly areas that could use some work but its not terrible. It gets the job done.

* Its expensive - I don't know how much we pay for JIRA, but I know it integrates well with the other Atlassian products we use, Confluence, Fisheye, Bamboo etc. That integration is worth a premium in my opinion.

> They’re merging it into MailChimp, but updated the TOS and AUP with immediate effect in ways that essentially banned what was the service’s raison d’être: sending bulk mail programmatically.

I thought the idea behind Mandrill was to send transactional emails, i.e. not bulk emails. In fact bulk emails are specifically what Mailchimp is designed for. Sounds like people were using Mandrill in an attempt to get around some of Mailchimp's pricing structure, and now that has come to an end.

That said, I will agree that the change has come rather abruptly.

Arguably anyone following the project will be familiar with their version numbering policy. For those that are new to the project (including myself) a list of benefits in the title provides little information anyway as I have no background knowledge of the project before this release. Either way the best option is to read the announcement to find out more.

> Real chocolate - dark, milk or white - melted into steamed milk and combined with our rich espresso and caramel. Topped with whipped cream, caramel sauce and Snickers®

I think you can probably work out from the description that its not going to be a healthy drink.

You won't need the Unity WebPlayer to run this, they look like standalone builds.

Additionally, if you contact their customer support via the form they used to provide they ask for your password, which is them presented back to you in plain text when they reply.

Quoting from a reply I had: "As there's no account password quoted on the form you’ve filled in I'm unable to go in to any account specifics."

"accountPassword: I'm not giving you my password"

People sometimes seem to forget that development is not a synonym for web development. I use a laptop (Macbook Pro) to develop on a fairly large Unity game - I am currently sitting at 15.78GB/16GB used.

I agree with the second paragraph. It seems that we're constantly pushing to make developing mobile apps easier for people with a web front-end background, in doing so tying them into using a stack of frameworks that in my opinion is far enough removed from 'web' that it loses sight of the core advantage - that it is easier to learn and develop with than the 'native' alternatives.

I wonder if by the time you get to this stage you wouldn't be better off investing the time in actually learning the native languages and toolsets provided with them. I am also concerned about how much you would be tied into doing things the, in this case, Supersonic way. The scaffolding for example looks interesting, but is it actually useful in a real-world application?

I don't have experience with Supersonic, I do have experience with AngularJS + Cordova mobile apps (I built the front-end of the RuneScape Companion app) - and I think if I were faced with building a similar app again I would think very very carefully about investing time into learning a stack of frameworks such as this.

The UK link is possibly even worse!

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/chromebook-1460-commercial.htm...