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by johneth 11y ago
As much as I enjoy watching those three mess around on TV, I'm not giving tax-dodging Amazon £80 (~$125) a year for the privilege. Prime seems to have a poor UI (and from what I've read has an inferior service in the UK in terms o
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by johneth 11y ago
> And Citizens United ruling says corporations are people In the United States.
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by johneth 11y ago
> I don't quite understand why they put so much emphasis on 24/7 radio. Another thing is that they're lying when they say it's the first global 24/7 live DJ-driven radio station. The BBC's music stations hav
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by johneth 11y ago
It's because Lenovo is a Chinese company.
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by johneth 11y ago
Seconded. I'm using the WordPress ToS template for one of my projects. Depending on what your service does, you'll need to tailor it somewhat, though.
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by johneth 12y ago
It's based on the making of the game according to someone working on it - https://twitter.com/guycocker/status/575985333017391104
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by johneth 12y ago
He referred to #VATMESS - the new VAT rules across the EU that place a large administrative burden on smaller businesses like his (and mine) - more info here: http://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2014/11/25&#x2F
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by johneth 12y ago
I actually find listening to specialist radio shows on some of the BBC's stations to be really good to code to. Your mileage may vary depending on what you're in to, but I'd recommend The Essential Mix, most things on overnig
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by johneth 12y ago
There was a somewhat related documentary on the BBC this week about legal highs in the UK - I'd recommend giving it a watch of you're able to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v3294
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by johneth 12y ago
They've been used so much in ways that they shouldn't have been over the last year or two that they're starting to lose their meaning.
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by johneth 12y ago
> All three you mention currently have severe deficits compared to Netflix. I agree to your points to a certain extent. However, you're forgetting that Netflix also has deficits to the other three. HBO, as I understand it, would mo
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by johneth 12y ago
> However when it's all said in done who else is competing with against netflix? Well, HBO, Amazon and Hulu in the US. In my country (the UK), there are several local competitors; Now TV, Sky, BT, 4oD, BBC iPlayer (sort of), Amazon
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by johneth 12y ago
It's because of the BBC's 'Fair Trading Guidelines' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/poli...
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by johneth 12y ago
I'd argue against your point that many software jobs have been outsources/offshored - at least not any more than other major western economies. The UK has a relatively large software industry - game development, european headquar
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by johneth 12y ago
Towards the bottom of the article: "Each track will have to be played for 30 seconds before it counts as one stream. To avoid fans "gaming" the system, only 10 plays will be counted per user, per day."
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by johneth 13y ago
They're moving it up from 7 days to 30 days at some point soon.
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by johneth 13y ago
Requirements, especially in government, will change quite quickly whatever you do, so I'd argue that fast agile development is more beneficial and cost-effective than slower development cycles.
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by johneth 13y ago
It would be even more wasteful to build a stack, then even if it didn't work / new features needed to be added / old cruft needed to be removed / new devices and services need to be supported, just keep using and develop
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by johneth 13y ago
Sure: http://www.xilo.net/adsl_broadband/ Disclaimer: I've never used them, I've just read some positive reviews on reddit and places a couple of monnths ago.
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by johneth 13y ago
> I'd go for Andrews & Arnold if I could afford idealism at the moment. I've heard Xilo are quite good regarding filtering, quality, etc., and they're cheaper than A&A.
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by johneth 13y ago
> Most papers (especially tabloids) in the UK are owned by News Corp. They only own The Sun and The Times. The other ones are owned by various others.
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by johneth 13y ago
You're misunderstanding the power that the Queen has. Just because it's a 'Royal pardon', it doesn't mean that she actually pushed for it. The opposite is true, in fact (the Queen is a symbolic head of state, and
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by johneth 13y ago
Just an FYI - if you leave the www. off your URL, a GoDaddy page appears.
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by johneth 13y ago
There seems to be a bee in your bonnet. The person you just berated baselessly pointed out some of the practical problems with this endeavour. He didn't say they couldn't be overcome.
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by johneth 13y ago
I got the impression from the blog post that the President's team disabled that feature for fairly obvious reasons (i.e. can't really let 10K+ people chime in). Here: "Unfortunately the call was marketed and promoted as a “c
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Lessons learned by the Government Digital Service on government IT(youtube.com)
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by johneth 13y ago
Discovery: * various BBC Radio stations (specficially, their specialist shows) * Last.fm * iTunes Genius Recommendations Acquiring: * iTunes * Amazon * Physical CDs Managing: * iTunes (purely because it keeps my files organised, and it&#x27
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by johneth 13y ago
You obviously don't understand the relationship of the Queen and the UK government. She is a non-political 'figurehead' head of state. She represents the state. She has to be non-political and neutral, as she is unelected.
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by johneth 13y ago
Actually, a lot fewer newspapers are sold in the UK than that, according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unite... It says the Daily Mail has a circulation of about 1.8m daily, the Guar
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by johneth 13y ago
This looks interesting, I might use it in the future (currently a Rackspace customer). I'll definitely keep an eye on you though. Do you have plans to add any other features to the service (I know one of your selling points is keeping

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