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by andyking 18y ago
I agree. It's really easy to say "throw away your Blackberry and enjoy life" when you don't have to earn another penny as long as you live. The rest of us just make the best of whatever situation we find ourselves in.
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by andyking 18y ago
There are thousands of little corner shops, newsagents and market stalls which sell pay-as-you-go SIM cards for a few pounds with no questions asked in the UK. Basic mobile handsets can be bought cheaply off markets or car boots, again an a
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by andyking 18y ago
Is there anywhere I can go and see a full size copy of the IP block "map" that's thumbnailed in the article?
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by andyking 18y ago
It's in danger of coming out of my Google Reader, I've already got plenty of other sources for startup and tech news in there and I'd rather read the personal blogs of people with interesting opinions than the mass-produced tripe being chur
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This terrifying moment is our one chance for a new world(guardian.co.uk)
14 points by andyking 18y ago|34 comments
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American SAT tested in UK; gender achievement gap reversed(tes.co.uk)
4 points by andyking 18y ago|2 comments
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by andyking 18y ago
I'm not. In fact, whenever a new Ubuntu version comes out, I always order the CD from the "ship it" service. The benefits are twofold; I'm not maxing out my meagre internet connection for hour after hour downloading a huge ISO and the 4-5 w
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by andyking 18y ago
Agreed. I'm no supporter of the wars being waged, I marched in London in 2003 and personally think "terror" should be somewhere down the list of global concerns at present in the face of environmental pressures and the financial issues. If
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by andyking 18y ago
I don't think it's fair to describe Britain's contribution in Afghanistan (or indeed Iraq) as "iffy".
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by andyking 18y ago
There's a massive flaw with all these location-based iPhone social networks. They attract only a limited subsection of the world; namely, people interested in location-based iPhone social networks. And you don't need gadgetry to know when t
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by andyking 18y ago
This article is as alien to me as a newspaper written in Greenlandic. Perhaps it's something to do with spending too much of my life in Stoke-on-Trent, one of the less salubrious corners of England. It just seems to be taking the bland cons
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by andyking 18y ago
I once looked at taking out hosting with the bizarrely-named GoDaddy when setting up a site. I was put right off by their CEO's prominent appearances on the homepage and elsewhere. Perhaps if the giant, misogynistic tit spent less time feed
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Charlie Brooker: Go on holiday, they said...(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by andyking 18y ago|0 comments
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by andyking 18y ago
I don't know about elsewhere, but in Britain commercial radio stations have to pay a certain percentage of their turnover to the music licensing bodies. It works out at about 6-10% depending on the size of the station, and it doesn't help t
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by andyking 18y ago
If they moved the whole thing lock, stock and barrel to the UK, they'd run into the same problems with music licensing bodies. Online radio stations in this country have been having a tough time of it lately. But what do you expect when the
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by andyking 18y ago
Anyway, this pales in comparison to the awesome power of the Twat-O-Tron, an automatic comment generator for the BBC's news website: http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/the-twat-o... Also works on YouTube.
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by andyking 18y ago
I've read quite a number of blog posts recently that have been written in English that's seemed strangely clunky and unnatural, in a style very similar to the intro text on the Datapresser home page. I initially put it down to posts being a
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by andyking 18y ago
I had two thoughts about this article: 1. "Great, Charlie Brooker's back on telly tonight!" 2. "Bollocks, it's a half-arsed article from last February."
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by andyking 18y ago
Ta.
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by andyking 18y ago
Hey, it worked on SimCity!
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by andyking 18y ago
The site I'm in charge of (a small local radio station, about as far from the early-adopter crowd as you can get) now only has 19% of its visitors from IE6, with 53% using IE7. (For completeness, Fx has 20%.) For the next iteration of the s
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by andyking 18y ago
I'd hate to come face-to-face with a Silverfish Extreme. Eww.
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by andyking 18y ago
On the spiralislanders.com site: "First tour group... when we arrived we were blown away!" Made me chuckle, anyway.
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by andyking 18y ago
This sort of thing would be great if it was cloned or expanded to cover UK universities. There have been an increasing number of really ropey institutions and courses popping up over recent years and many students don't realise they're in s
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by andyking 18y ago
Is it one of those horrible Mighty Mouses? The scroll ball on those is truly dire. Try turning it upside down and rolling it round really hard on the scroll ball and it should free it up for a few weeks. (After I got fed up of doing that, I
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by andyking 18y ago
At our small local radio station (I know it's not YC, but I hope this is vaguely relevant), the blog is pretty awful. It's simply an endless stream of calls-to-action along the lines of "come to event X on Saturday", or "listen to our new d
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by andyking 18y ago
I'll tell you what's interesting. This blog. It's from a fairly unsexy uptime monitoring company, whose services I've got little interest in. If the blog was just company updates ("we've got a new server" or "20% off all packages this week"
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by andyking 18y ago
I read an interesting article in the paper the other week about Zimbabwe, where the Z$ has been inflated so vastly that it is valueless for all practical purposes. The government there have started to ration petrol and issue vouchers entitl
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by andyking 18y ago
Oh, for crying out loud. I respect Mark Shuttleworth for putting his money where his mouth is; desktop Linux has come on leaps and bounds in the past few years and it's thanks in no small part to Canonical. But you can't compare yourself to
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by andyking 18y ago
I've been here just a few months and tend to be far more of a reader than a contributor, but I've noticed lately that there are more stories here that I've already read. I'm guessing most of us have the likes of Techcrunch and El Reg in our

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