RobAley

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by RobAley 13y ago
The comments below demonstrate that, while cute, virtually all of the statements it comes up with are entirely subjective, quite superficial, totally ambiguous, and useless for most things. Great conversation starter though!
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by RobAley 13y ago
I currently work in the UK Medical Careers Research Group at Oxford University. [edit: this post isn't an official communication from our group!] To give a UK perspective, what our research has found is that, in general, female doctors
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by RobAley 13y ago
For what its worth, HHMV does support eval. Other previous compilers in the HipHop range didn't.
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by RobAley 13y ago
I disagree. Currently there is no standards body that defines what is PHP, and thus the "official" PHP runtime is "simply" another runtime like HHVM (and others) that implements what it considers to be PHP. It's t
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by RobAley 13y ago
Er, surely the whole point of the article is that they are making it so that more of the existing codebase will run. Their roadmap also includes making it easy to install on Linux and other platforms, so it may make inroads into "every
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by RobAley 13y ago
> I immediately did a mental flashback to some of the educational videos I loved growing up: documentaries by the Discovery Channel, PBS, and the like, where learning was actually encouraged, not mocked. Those great, factual documentari
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by RobAley 13y ago
Size.
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by RobAley 13y ago
One would think that Google would be aware of the brand owner though, everyone else around the world seems to be.
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by RobAley 13y ago
Its the infant formula marketing one for me that still trumps them all. Knowingly allowing babies to die is pretty much a sure way to get to the top of my "that's a company I don't like" list.
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by RobAley 13y ago
Those associations, while not by any means ideal, are somewhat necessary. As inferred by the argument it's hard to find ethical phone companies at that scale. There is absolutely no need (at least technologically) for this link up. Its
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by RobAley 13y ago
You would be surprised at what you can achieve with a little effort and using mainly smaller companies with an ethical bent (certainly ethical clothing and bicycles are available). Nevertheless, I agree it is hard, and I'll likely be u
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by RobAley 13y ago
"Truly Horrible" isn't mutually exclusive with "everybody has a Nescafé tin at home". Also, it's not just controversial in the UK, it is in many countries, and it's not just Student Unions that have held b
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by RobAley 13y ago
Yes. Next time I upgrade, I've got my eye on fairphone.com, for what it's worth. Not quite sure what that argument has to do with my preposition though. I had no such illusions about my phone manufacturer (Samsung). Google set out
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by RobAley 13y ago
No, I arrived at that conclusion because KitKat and Google have both publicly announced the tie-up, and Google doesn't seem to understand, or more likely doesn't care, what it means to actively promote a company like Nestle. There
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by RobAley 13y ago
Nestle is a truly horrible company[1], this hook-up has really re-enforced the notion in my eyes that Google is now just another big multi-national corp in the same vein as the rest. It's sad, because I used to think they could show th
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Forgotten father of the search engine(m.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by RobAley 13y ago|0 comments
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Japan Builds Ice Wall To Stop Leaks at Fukushima(news.sky.com)
1 points by RobAley 13y ago|0 comments
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Woman loses "Schedule 7" terrorism case, the law used against David Miranda(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by RobAley 13y ago|0 comments
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China Internet Hit By 'Largest-Ever' Attack(news.sky.com)
2 points by RobAley 13y ago|0 comments
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by RobAley 13y ago
You're confusing authentication with identification. Many (most?) web services and software only require the former, not the later. They don't need to know that you're Joe Bloggs, only that you're the unidentified person
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by RobAley 13y ago
Indeed, as I stated it's still a small slice of the pie, but it doesn't change the fact that even a few hundred dollars in intervention funds, for instance, can turn someones life around, and local (or regional, if you prefer, as
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by RobAley 13y ago
In large corps maybe, where it's pennies for each share holder. In Government (particularly local government) that amount, while still a small slice of the pie, can do real life-changing stuff for e.g. vulnerable people in the local co
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by RobAley 13y ago
We have a mix of Windows machines with MS Office and Ubuntu machines with LO here for our admin staff (with each staff member using both for different tasks), and I get far more questions about how to find things in the MS ribbon than I do
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by RobAley 13y ago
But you've made an assumption that they will be more productive in MS Office, with nothing to back that up. I've see users (particularly non-technical, "basic" users) be more productive in LibreOffice. So they may have m
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David Miranda granted injunction against UK Government by UK court(m.bbc.co.uk)
11 points by RobAley 13y ago|1 comments
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Bank Intern Dies After Pulling All-Nighters(news.sky.com)
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David Miranda Heathrow detention: No 10 'kept abreast of operation'(m.bbc.co.uk)
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Patent trolls: Tracking down the litigious invention owners(bbc.co.uk)
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Fukushima nuclear plant: Radioactive water leak found(bbc.co.uk)
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by RobAley 13y ago
At a guess, personalised tracking information perhaps?

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