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by johneth 10y ago
It's not mutually exclusive. It's just an extra option (much like Stripe allows you to select Card or Bitcoin, for example).
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by johneth 10y ago
Seamless Paypal integration. Paypal is very popular across Europe (and the world), and many prefer to use it over credit and/or debit cards (these payment methods aren't universally popular).
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by johneth 10y ago
> He should serve ads I want to consume. This is the norm: it's called native advertising. You enjoy consuming glorified PR pieces, that aren't distinguished as such? To me, that seems much more underhanded and deceitful that a
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by johneth 10y ago
So how should he fund his work? Can you offer him some sort of alternative method that's acceptable to you? Donation buttons are a sort of ad. Paywalls rarely work, especially in niche content like his. How else should he fund it? >
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by johneth 10y ago
He's tried. Nothing's happened.
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by johneth 10y ago
Come on. This type of ad is the most efficient possible - text only. Bandwidth isn't free for the host, either. The money has to come from somewhere. > the sponsor message is loaded by a request that returns a 242 byte response so
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by johneth 10y ago
> The customer is always right. No they're not. Often they're absolutely wrong. > if you want me to consume ads, give me ads I want to consume. The sponsorhip message on Troy's site is unobtrusive (it appears once at th
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by johneth 10y ago
> All European government websites are also built on Drupal. I know at least one that isn't: https://gov.uk/ They also open-source all their stuff: https://github.com/alphagov
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by johneth 10y ago
I just used the title of the article at the time I submitted the link.
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by johneth 10y ago
I think it might be quite difficult for them, as some of these rights apply regardless of hours worked: https://www.gov.uk/employment-status/worker
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Uber drivers win employee rights case(bbc.co.uk)
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by johneth 10y ago
I think they may be meaning in terms of profit.
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by johneth 10y ago
I would first ask: how are they being biased? Could you give examples?
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by johneth 10y ago
Kalman filters are very useful. There are several variants that can be implemented, depending on the available data and what you want to achieve. I found a great place to get your head around them was Roger Labbe's tutorials: http:&#x
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by johneth 10y ago
> the tech seem definitely doesn't seem as vibrant as that of London at a quick glance. That could change as people decide against London and for EU cities. I'd say Dublin has quite a chance, too (although certainly not to the
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by johneth 10y ago
You wouldn't happen to have a link to that, would you?
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by johneth 10y ago
Is your street on OpenStreetMap? As I understand it, Apple takes OSM data, so if it's not currently on OpenStreetMap, you could add it.
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by johneth 11y ago
There are a few Facebook groups about it (search 'EU VAT Action Group' and 'Digital VAT 2015'). They're mostly microbusinesses that are UK based (so that may colour the comments you see). There's an astounding
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by johneth 11y ago
It's probably the notifications and @ing that's bothering him.
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by johneth 11y ago
What a pointless comment. This is the pilot's union, who are obviously going to fight the corner of their members. Not the government.
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by johneth 11y ago
Shaun the Sheep and Orphan Black are BBC shows.
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by johneth 11y ago
The fact that they employed Clarkson is one of the numerous reasons I'm extremely unlikely to ever subscribe to Prime.
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by johneth 11y ago
Thanks for the guide, very useful. Spotted a very minor typo in the Backups section: "Backups server two primary purposes" (should it be serve?)
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by johneth 11y ago
I think the problem with music broadcasts (TV or radio) is that they'd need permission of the artists and/or publishers before they could sell it commercially. It's probably for similar reasons that they don't show all t
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by johneth 11y ago
Usually rights reasons. A lot of the stuff they show is owned by other companies (films, sports, etc.). They also commission a lot of stuff from outside production companies who want to be able to commercialise it in other ways afterwards (
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by johneth 11y ago
Not sure what you mean. Does moving away from Flash mean they're becoming technologically obsolete?
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by johneth 11y ago
> terrible at technology and leadership While I'm not suggesting that he's not successful in many ways, he's also been (and still is) quite bad at these two things. On the technology front, the terribleness that immediatel
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by johneth 11y ago
Personally, I think Amazon's successful despite their workplace culture, not because of it.
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by johneth 11y ago
I've been using your book to learn about unscented Kalman filters for something I'm working on, and I need to take this opportunity to say thank you! It would've taken me much longer to understand it all without your book - y
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by johneth 11y ago
I think a lot of their problems in this area stem from an arrogance that they seem to have where they think they're right or doing the right thing at all times, or at least don't seem to acknowledge their mistakes properly.

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