danjones

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by danjones 12y ago
I honestly don't understand what Uber is trying to accomplish with the integration of non-professional drivers into it's taxi platform. It's devaluing their actual taxi service. By failing to address the serious safety concer
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EU Commissioner wants to abolish Netflix style geoblocking(torrentfreak.com)
8 points by danjones 12y ago|0 comments
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by danjones 12y ago
Damn, with a name like that I was hoping for a game of self discovery as a young man quests to become a swashbuckling pirate.
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by danjones 13y ago
The issue isn't license plate readers, it's data retention. They certainly have a valid point about the need for limits on data retention however I feel they're going too far in demanding "public disclosure of the actual license plate data
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by danjones 13y ago
no probs
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by danjones 13y ago
It's great to see Netflix pushing for HTML 5 media encryption, it's one of the things the orignal spec for these elements lacked. Once it becomes standard across the browsers we'll hopefully see more media publishers come onboard supportin
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by danjones 13y ago
I recall this being debunked (at least for airline tickets) completely in a stack exchange thread that was posted here a while back. I'll add the links if I can locate them. Edit to add links: [1] http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/
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by danjones 13y ago
This has been happening for a while now and often the result of poor configuration within the automated tools[1]. The real issue at the moment is that there is no incentive to improve how these tools operate. Right now the onus is on Google
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by danjones 13y ago
It's certainly an interesting approach to bookmarks, though I'm curious as to why the need for a complete backend when much of the functionality appears to implemented via the browser extension. Would it not have been simpler to link in wit
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by danjones 14y ago
And I always imagined LA would end up something like this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116225/
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by danjones 14y ago
You may want to switch that to Helvetica Neue (or just add it to the top of the font stack), the subtle difference in this case is that it has a wider support for different font weights whereas Helvetica jumps from 100 to 400 to 600.
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IPhone 4S Price Plans in the UK(docs.google.com)
1 points by danjones 15y ago|0 comments
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by danjones 15y ago
That's a nice idea, I considered doing something similar a few years back. Instead of going to businesses had you considered going to the county councils directly and expanding your service in partnership with them. Many councils provide th
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by danjones 15y ago
Wow, I thought the creator had given up on the project. Whilst I loved the promise Espresso 1 showed, I found it had too many issues to make me switch from Coda. I'm curious though, besides a rewrite of the program and integration of CSSEdi
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by danjones 15y ago
@brudgers Google typically releases new products to the market slowly whilst announcing them, look back at services like Gmail, that was initially invite only and in beta for a number of years. I doubt this is actually Facebook's answer to
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by danjones 15y ago
"Two of the media companies behind the online video service, Walt Disney Co. and News Corp., recently renewed licensing agreements to make Hulu more attractive for a sale." Providing the other networks will follow suite this looks to be a g