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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
In the UK, the NHS (National Health Service) website has an excellent section called Behind the headlines that " provides an unbiased and evidence-based analysis of health stories that make the news ". Their articles are well-wr
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Not with their annoying interstitial it won't This is my main gripe with Pinterest: the hostile and intrusive block on viewing the site unless you register first. This wasn't always the case. I'm guessing the permanent prom
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Why Britain sucks at product placement (5 min video)(youtube.com)
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My teacher is an app: the classroom of the future (audio - 2014)(bbc.co.uk)
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
Related, but not quite the same thing: Europe's young adults living with parents - a country by country breakdown (2011) http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/mar/24/young-a...
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Books come in an enormous variety of shapes and sizes. E-book readers, tablets and smartphones, in contrast, come in very limited sizes. You cannot always successfully transpose the content from a physical book to a smaller electronic devic
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It's depressing how perfectly normal and natural the idea of tracking users has become. I know this isn't a popular opinion on Hacker News, but why should there be any tracking whatsoever when using an OS? Are people saying that t
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"...curious to hear HN's thoughts on if this should be fixed or is acceptable." I consider it unacceptable. Why does Google do this? Is it for the purpose of tracking users? This feels like a common problem with URLs. More
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From the article: "The UK Government Digital Services shared the journey that led them from user needs to a government-wide policy on the use of ODF, and the extensive guidance on best practices for ODF usage they published last week.
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"Please provide 3 misleading examples." Google's privacy policy is not misleading but they omit some of the most important information you would expect to find in a privacy policy. When you sign up for a Google account you
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The BBC news website used to do something similar. You could submit a comment below an article but it would be up to their editorial staff to pick which comments would be published. In typical BBC fashion, they would try and publish equal n
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"What are some free and credible sources?" BBC News (bbc.co.uk/news) isn't really free to UK users but website vistors outside the UK don't pay (but they do get ads instead). Of course, the BBC's news coverag
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BBC collaboration to build multilingual media monitoring system(bbc.co.uk)
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"3. Equals is a lie: = ≠ =" This is why languages like Pascal (and it's descendents) use := as assignment. There are contradictory opinions about sytnax among programmers. Many programmers don't like the example assign
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Two diesel cars road tested – how clean are they? (3 min video)(bbc.co.uk)
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"I've been really disappointed with the pricing of eBooks." E-book pricing is a bit of a mess in the EU. Many countries have a reduced rate of VAT on print books, For example, in the UK it's 0%, in France it's 5.5
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by chestnut-tree 11y ago
E-ink readers are small and suited mostly to black-and-white paperback-sized novels or non-fiction. That still leaves an enormous number of books (perhaps the majority) that don't fit the paperback size such as illustrated children&#x2
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5 reasons why you should watch the Rugby World Cup(time.com)
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Not mentioned in this article is the James Dyson Award. An annual international competition for students with a wide brief: "Design something that solves a problem...Products that have a significant and practical purpose, are commerci
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Some more information about the website launch is in this BBC blog post Introducing the BBC micro:bit website in beta http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/6fb0dc17-4a70... Accoring to the blog pos
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BBC micro:bit website launches(microbit.co.uk)
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The BBC had an article on snakebites a few days ago. It states "Snakes get closer to humans and cause more damage and more deaths than any other venomous animal, including spiders, scorpions and jellyfish. Each year, up to five millio
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I'm not sure if this collection of TV programmes can be viewed by anyone outside the UK (a shame if not), but it includes some TV programmes about computers and computer programming that are over 30 years old. Here is a BBC blog post t
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Back to BASIC [video](bbc.co.uk)
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"So it's just HTML? Is there a reason (legal or otherwise) that they can't just use HTML?" The BBC have an open source library for building apps for TV based on HTML, CSS and JavaScript called TAL: TV Application Layer
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It's true: a lot of bullshit could simply be eliminated with plain English. And the technology field (from development to design to UX) is overflowing with inflated writing and unnecessary jargon in articles, blog entries, design guide
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Although Van Leeuwenhoek wasn't a scientist, the skill he deployed in developing his microscope was a considerable achievement at the time. As in so many scientific stories, his work spurned others into further discoveries. Here's
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"If recent events in the UK are any guide, they get really unhappy over low prices." Dairy farmers in the UK were complaining that some supermarkets were paying them less for a litre of milk than what it cost them to produce the
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This short 3 min video from the New York Times features four core exercises that protect the spine. It's narrated by the same Stuart McGill mentioned in antognini's post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kukmaW9CmSU
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Italian city drops Open Office for Microsoft after four years(zdnet.com)
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