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by malsme 14y ago
I think I am a bit odd, but whenever I donate, I opt-out of gift aid, so that I don't have to remember the values for the tax return (hate filling in forms). It's often difficult to opt-out of it too. Sometimes you have to select that the d
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by malsme 14y ago
I guess a weekly edition would make sense, keeping up-to-date with a daily newspaper can be practically a chore.
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by malsme 14y ago
I've used quite a few over the years, Lloyds TSB was probably the best in terms of usability (but others will likely disagree). If I were choosing a bank though, I would be more interested in their ethics, hidden charges - which usually mea
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by malsme 14y ago
Simple answer: don't rely on "cloud" services. There's often a good reason for these restrictions, such as copyright and IP limitations. If you want to own something, then actually own it.
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by malsme 14y ago
The comment higher up says A/B testing is used, that may be true for publishers that make use of performance ads. If you're a well known entity then you try to only accept brand ads (CPM - pay per impression/view), and those brand ads come
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by malsme 14y ago
To give some context for an otherwise abstract label? Like .ac.uk is likely to be a school or university, .gov.uk is something government related. To me, .co.uk is the wild west of the UK domains, so be a bit more guarded.
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by malsme 14y ago
I think something like YouView has the most potential. It needs a few more years of development, but it could be bundled into TVs and resold to broadcasters in other countries as a state broadcasting standard.
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by malsme 14y ago
Not quite right. For the UK, £300 million of the licence fee budget (over the next couple of years) will pay for the roll out of high speed internet to rural communities. I doubt the BBC wanted to do it, but it looks like they'll be subsidi
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by malsme 14y ago
In addition to this, it's worth noting that not all calories are created equally. If you process your food to make juices, smoothies etc (or buy it already processed), then you'll get a greater, more immediate hit of energy than if your bod
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by malsme 14y ago
I see Kickstarter as more of a service to get well established businesses to focus on difficult, specialist, low margin projects, particularly computer games. Most of these design-focused hardware projects ring alarm bells in my head.
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by malsme 14y ago
In my location, those sorts of disabled facilities have more than one use, so if there's no disabled person taking the space, then parents with prams or buggies use them, if there's no parents, then standard passengers use them (they have m
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by malsme 14y ago
What the EU did with the standardisation of connectors was a good thing for consumers. I'm not really sure why someone would side with Apple in this respect, other than if you own shares in the business, work for them, for a supplier etc.
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by malsme 14y ago
Vista was such a clunky OS, a transition between XP, which was snappy but required lots of configuration, to something that worked well from the start (Windows 7). That's why I am not touching the next Windows OS, it's another transition an
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by malsme 14y ago
To protect it for a future online auction?
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by malsme 14y ago
The ICO's interpretation of the privacy law requires the user to understand that continued usage of a website will result in tracking (i.e. alert them until they agree), so the BBC's version complies better with the recommendations. That's
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by malsme 14y ago
That's the main reason why I learned REBOL back in the day. I could build something on my Amiga and it would work the same no matter what platform.
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by malsme 14y ago
It is probably a strange thing to say (i.e. common knowledge for others), but it only recently occurred to me that people develop a standard pose for photos. If you look at a family album or say Facebook or Flickr, and scroll through histor
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by malsme 14y ago
According to a recent talk by a lead developer, the website does now implement Symfony2 components on top of the Zend Framework. https://speakerdeck.com/u/jcleveley/p/how-we-built-the-new-r...
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by malsme 14y ago
Also, you're allowing yourself to become exclusively dependent on another company's platform.
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by malsme 14y ago
Yep. It's great for basic tasks. I used it early on when moving from Photoshop to Gimp... useful for dealing with files from new versions of Photoshop, but disabled enough by its lack of advanced features with layers.
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by malsme 14y ago
I think the length of the interview is important. If it is, say, 15 minutes to an hour long, then sure, stick around and see what happens. All-day interviews can be draining/horrible experiences, especially when it has sunk in that you aren
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by malsme 14y ago
I once instructed someone to download Open Office and he downloaded an unofficial version that I guess appeared first on the search engine. It was bundled with a not-so-nice toolbar, so these things do happen.
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by malsme 14y ago
Building a product on top of another isn't the best of ideas (without having alternatives). Plus, VB is Oracle.
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by malsme 14y ago
It has a similar effect to Flash ads on my laptop, the fan fires up to full power, so yes, an off button please.
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by malsme 14y ago
A side effect of an increasingly individualistic society, some countries more so than others. I could only really see this working in a highly corporate and controlled environment, like a light rail station in a business district, maybe an
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by malsme 14y ago
For the majority of developers, it's whatever database server that control panels like cPanel and Plesk choose, and they aren't the sort to switch on a whim.
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by malsme 14y ago
I would never pay for something like that, I barely see a use for ad-supported social networks, but those that pay will feel a psychological pressure to make use of their investment, it will also create a feeling of privilege; whereas somet
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by malsme 14y ago
The thing that's always bothered me about that browser is the name, it almost sounds like it was chosen to be antagonistic, like they had a chip on their shoulder. I am probably reading too much into it, but that's the impression I get when
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by malsme 14y ago
From what I have read about him, my guess is he's somehow trying to subvert the system... what better way to get international publicity to your cause than to be effectively placed under house arrest in a stable nation while being protected
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by malsme 14y ago
They are useful but non-intuitive, so I imagine most people relearn them each time they meet - unless you are stuck doing it all the time.

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