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BBC Box: Offline data capturing and analytics(bbc.co.uk)
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
My approach when I am confronted with 1) cookie-bar, 2) GDPR-bar, 3) fixed nav, and 4) notification popup, is just to hit F9 (Win, annoyingly worse in Ubuntu) within Firefox to just go into reader mode. It makes the internet more bearable.
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
byrd ( https://getbyrd.com ) | Senior Front-end Engineer | Berlin, Germany | Full-time | VISA | ONSITE | Logistics / Supply Chain Frontend: Angular 6, Ngrx, Bootstrap, Material, Karma / Jasmine, AWS S3 / CloudFront
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
Particularly if you live alone. Typically you can't buy fewer than 6 sausages in the UK, or in Germany finding anything less than a 2.5kg bag of potatoes can be tricky.
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
Tinned goods are also great for a similar reason
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
Awesome - thanks for the link
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
Added some citations. My comment also included "please correct me if I'm wrong", so I'm really not sure what part of my statement was outrageous?
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
An interesting little "gotcha" to this (unless I'm mistaken, please correct if so) is that imported energy is not taken into account. The UK recently ran 2 weeks "without using coal" [1], but this completely ignored
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
This is a very good point, though I'd advise any junior developer to start to say "I don't know" as quickly as you're able to. From my experience under promising and over delivering has been a far, far better modus
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As much as I like the sentiment, in my opinion HTML is very much a means to an end - that end being delivering content to your end consumers. I was very much behind the "separation of concerns" brigade (with respect to HTML/C
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
> About 30 sites made it easy to sign up for services but particularly hard to cancel, requiring phone calls or other procedures. The Times requires people to talk with a representative online or by phone to cancel subscriptions, but the
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
No, very interesting, thanks
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
Thanks. I suppose my question was less about the affordability of a landline connection, but consumption of. Interesting that you said its a marker of wealth - but are you essentially saying that for everyone else it's not that commo
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Do most Indians have good internet access at home? As in, is a portion of this accounting for home-usage which is replaced by a home connection in other countries?
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
I'm not sure I completely buy the "creepy" nature of this, or that everyone hates getting unsolicited emails - AFAIK this is a clear GDPR violation. In my previous company we rewrote our checkout flow for this reason. Captu
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
As much as I can sympathise with the predicament, this decision, and the Berlin housing market in general, absolutely baffles me. When I moved here I was warned of 100 people turning up to a flat viewing, and laughed it off as some hyperbol
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
Yes - I was just reading the other article on the front page of HN which gives a summary. Pegged to fiats and traded in for fiats, so... Facebook is creating its own fiat which it wants to profit off, use its existing user network as a leap
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
As someone somewhat out of the crypto-loop, would someone be able to explain/posit/cite why Facebook are entering this market, and why traditional payment providers are also getting involved? On the face of it, this suggests it ai
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
I know this reason is often cited as why Apple are the privacy-focused company, but I guess its interesting that Google seem to be focussing more on products lately as well (in comparison to earlier, not in comparison to data-collection).
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
Exactly - it's like "flexible" docking. You have to dock it in areas, but there's some grace if there's no stations left. Seems like the best of both worlds from my perspective.
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
Just on this - Hamburg in particular has a system where it's free to use for up to 30m for subscribers to the service, which is super cheap. I believe it's run by the local authority, and at such a level its easy to explain why
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
I really enjoyed this style of writing. It respectfully expressed why he disagreed with someone else, but acknowledged that both he and said person achieved their results and had tests which covered that fact. Nothing inflammatory or overly
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
My (completely anecdotal) experience of London, was that having a car anywhere near the city center was close to pointless, as you could easily outpace it on a bike. It's also nice to see a gradual shift towards making the city public-
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
byrd ( https://getbyrd.com ) | Senior Front-end Engineer | Berlin, Germany | Full-time | Visa | Onsite | Logistics / Supply Chain Frontend: Angular 6, Ngrx, Bootstrap, Material, Karma / Jasmine, AWS S3 / CloudFront
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
If you like this, you might also like: https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice - which tries to tackle over-reaching conclusions from experimentation in mice
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
Thanks for the write up - it's a very succinct explanation of how Angular works in comparison. I found the original article to be a really good read, and the Svelte approach in general seems rather neat. I do however find that in this
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
Just reading the comments here, people seem to be relishing the thought of having an utterly ad-free world. As some have pointed out however, advertising can serve a useful purpose (see: signalling, market-for-lemons etc.). From my perspe
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
This is a great addition to "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names": https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
Economics would suggest that it's purely signally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics) The idea that people are hired based on skills is obviously laudable, but _how_ does one verify those skills
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by 2T1Qka0rEiPr 7y ago
Is it? I mean, I'm British and I'm not aware of this.

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