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by andyking 14y ago
I worked for a small local radio station and was asked to implement something similar to the "virtual mall" last year on the station website. I was only asked to do it as a neighbouring station had one. It was laid out like a simple street
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by andyking 14y ago
Opera has user-agent switching built in. You can just masquerade as Chrome.
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by andyking 14y ago
I bought a car to replace my train commute, and promptly sold it after a week of hellish traffic and "park and ride" car parks where the meagre 300 spaces fill up shortly after 6.30am. This isn't even London.
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by andyking 14y ago
Substitute the words "Northern Rail" for "South West Trains" and you're right again. The train company up here are well-known for being terrible. The trains are antique early 1980s sheds, built on a shoestring during a recession and way pas
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by andyking 14y ago
Didn't this happen last month?
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by andyking 14y ago
I can't use the Co-op. They won't let me have an account because I apparently have a bad credit rating. (The real reason, I expect, is because I have no credit rating as I've never applied for a credit card or loan, or been late on a bill
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by andyking 14y ago
I have been affected by this over the past week or so. I've been on holiday, and came back to a house with no fresh food, and no working bank account to pay for any, so I've been eating processed shite out of the freezer like a student for
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The Next Wave of Domain Names and the Potential of ".bbc"(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by andyking 14y ago|0 comments
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by andyking 14y ago
That's even worse! How are you meant to say that without sounding fake-excited? There's a radio station around here called "PULSE!" that I have the same issue with. It's not even an exciting radio station.
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by andyking 14y ago
Mine was given a random name by my ISP, which consisted of the name of the ISP followed by a random string of three characters (it's a small ISP). I was amused to get the piece of paper with my router telling me the SSID was "OriginBroadban
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by andyking 14y ago
I also use Opera regularly - it's my main browser on my computer and my phone. I've been using it since the 90s, and actually paid for it back when it displayed an ad for free users! It just has so many useful little extra features, and I g
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by andyking 14y ago
At an old workplace, we had a piece of equipment with a European plug that we regularly had to shoehorn into a UK socket. It was a case of shoving a screwdriver or a pencil into the earth hole on the socket to simulate that pin being insert
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by andyking 14y ago
This is going to get quite annoying, fairly fast, for those of us who browse on-and-off in incognito mode.
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by andyking 14y ago
I 'love' the British voter registration process. "You can do it online!" say the commercials. Yes, you can fill in a form online, you're then presented with a PDF that you have to print off, sign, and post back to the local council office
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by andyking 14y ago
I guess most people get it from their distribution's repository, so there are no centralised stats kept for downloads.
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by andyking 14y ago
How do you find Concrete5? I discovered it relatively recently and I've been investigating it in comparison to WordPress, which is starting to feel more than a little bloated. (A WordPress installation with a bunch of plugins installed star
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by andyking 14y ago
Not really. I'd just use another product. I'm not so attached to Chrome, or Android, or iPhone, or any other tech product that I couldn't switch. And aside from that, none of these 'bans' will ever come to pass--they're just lawyers flexing
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by andyking 14y ago
Is it just me who finds these little spats between huge companies a little tedious? It doesn't affect my life, or my work, if Microsoft or Adobe or Apple takes Google or Motorola or Samsung to court for another expensive round of willy-wavi
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by andyking 14y ago
These cheap pay-as-you-go phones are subsidised by the network--normally, you have to buy at least a £10 topup to get it, and if you look at the website of a phone shop like Carphone Warehouse, you'll find the exact same phone listed at dif
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by andyking 14y ago
What a fascinating problem, especially when it comes to personal photos that aren't really that 'personal.' A thousand people will all visit Paris today, and all take a picture of the Eiffel Tower, and all upload said picture to their favou
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by andyking 14y ago
It's very much an American newspaper thing--I've never seen it in the British press, but it seems to be house style at the New York Times and its ilk.
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by andyking 14y ago
Ubuntu 10.04 is still there, and still great. I'm still using it on my home and work machines--Gnome 2-based, PPAs and backports to update any apps that are a bit tired, and the whole thing's really stable. I'm not sure what I'll do when su
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by andyking 15y ago
I find that the most banal things on the radio suddenly become endlessly fascinating when the alternative is getting out of bed. "This advert for conservatories? Oh, I'll just stay in bed until the end of the commercials.. ooh, I've not hea
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by andyking 15y ago
I'm similar. I never made a conscious decision, or said to myself "right, I'm never reading TechCrunch again," it was just something that sort of happened. I gradually unsubscribed feeds in Google Reader that were generating too much uninte
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by andyking 15y ago
Spain and Germany are hardly insignificant countries. What you mean is "it's not in the US, and if it doesn't mention a country, I immediately think it's the US. I feel like an idiot for doing that, so I'm going to rant."
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by andyking 15y ago
I regularly do a Google search for "Ofcom MCA maps", a rather specialist subject that takes you to the following page that's impossible to find on the website itself: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/mcamaps/MCAs.h... When I
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by andyking 15y ago
Are you happy to share your contact details? (If yes, say which) Are you happy to share your contact details? (If yes, say which) You may not be able to supply all this information at this stage but please do register as much as you can wit
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by andyking 15y ago
I'm reminded here of a piece I read here on HN just the other day - about jobs being obsolete, or something. We're now living in a world where a lot of jobs are being automated away, and we don't need as many people in employment as we di
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by andyking 15y ago
And perhaps this is stating the obvious - but one ex-toll collector could efficiently repair and maintain 10, 50 or 100 toll machines. Just like those self-scanner checkouts at the supermarket, where you've got one guy supervising five or t
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by andyking 15y ago
The same goes for their BBC World TV channel. It is available on pan-European satellite within the UK but reception is, as far as I'm aware, actually illegal (or at least breaking the terms of the TV licence) as it contains advertising. The

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