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Give Well: Make your dollar go further(givewell.org)
3 points by cnorthwood 10y ago|0 comments
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by cnorthwood 10y ago
We don't actually pause between words as we speak, and there are many languages which don't have spaces either.
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by cnorthwood 10y ago
I'm surprised how transparent this is, I can find Amazon often a bit opaque when dealing with issues.
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Open source Halloween eye follows you down the street(twitter.com)
1 points by cnorthwood 10y ago|0 comments
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by cnorthwood 10y ago
The only loser in that case is Uber. Uber has made most existing minicab firms step up their game - quite a few were experimenting with apps before Uber arrived, but now almost all but the one man shops have apps (in addition to phone opera
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by cnorthwood 10y ago
Kaldi is used in production at the BBC: http://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/transcriptor/
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by cnorthwood 10y ago
> (other catch-up applications such as ITV's or Channel 5's are not included in this) This is wrong, any catch-up TV that was first transmitted on terrestrial TV is included.
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Epoch Zero(markfrimston.co.uk)
1 points by cnorthwood 10y ago|0 comments
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BBC R&D open sources VideoContext(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by cnorthwood 10y ago|0 comments
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by cnorthwood 11y ago
In England, Uber is licensed as a minicab firm (taxicabs you can hire on the street, minicabs you must order through an operator, and the Uber app acts as the operator). Uber play completely fair with the regulation here (maybe the regulati
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by cnorthwood 11y ago
Most UK supermarkets have large out-of-town retail parks for exactly this reason - although the public appetite for this is declining.
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by cnorthwood 11y ago
In Europe, you do have the right to request any files that HR/personnel hold on you. (In the UK, it's called a data subject request). I've certainly seen it used multiple times as part of the recruitment process, where an uns
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by cnorthwood 11y ago
There's a similar simulator for the UK's "IECC" signalling systems (Integrated Electronic Control Centre), including a fairly large number of maps and a reasonable community for chaining maps for multiple signal areas to
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UK National Grid pays factories to reduce electricity usage(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by cnorthwood 11y ago|0 comments
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by cnorthwood 11y ago
The article quotes AAR spokesman Ed Greenburg as "We have been warning for years that the deadline was unworkable because the technology had to be developed from scratch." Why does such technology need to be developed from scratch
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by cnorthwood 11y ago
Android 6.0 has the functionality you describe - there's a warning if you try to disable it for certain apps (presumably for older API levels) though that it may cause them to crash. I imagine this'll go away with time.
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Show HN: Backtalk, treat your Sass code as a Ruby Gem(github.com)
2 points by cnorthwood 11y ago|0 comments
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by cnorthwood 11y ago
the problem is, they don't want to "just" play video. On Flash they've been using a technology called HLS/HDS which does things like very the bitrate of the video depending on the speed of the connection, it's
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by cnorthwood 12y ago
The @BBC Twitter account has never tweeted - they've always used brand accounts to tweet.
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Accessibility: It’s not as hard as you think(medium.com)
1 points by cnorthwood 12y ago|0 comments
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by cnorthwood 13y ago
Isn't that kind of what Verified By Visa/MasterCard SecureCode tries to do (but implemented amazingly badly)
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by cnorthwood 13y ago
That's great, I wasn't aware of those frameworks, thanks.
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by cnorthwood 13y ago
The way we can get better as an industry and professionals is by improving and iterating, and reflecting on the current state of the industry and seeing where we want to go next is part of that. I'd rather improve the tools that alread
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by cnorthwood 13y ago
Semantic HTML is possible now, but the way our tools have been built (and documentation written - e.g., add this class to your element) makes it hard to do the right thing
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What still sucks about front-end web development(pling.org.uk)
23 points by cnorthwood 13y ago|17 comments