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by ldjb 10y ago
Whether the UK remains or leaves the single market isn't really relevant. Triggering Article 50 opens up the possibility of leaving the single market, but doesn't necessarily result in it. Triggering Article 50 is one of the simpl
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Parliament is involved in the Brexit process, including through the Brexit Select Committee. Politicians from across different parties will have their say on how the UK leaves the EU. However, the British people have voted to leave the EU,
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Although they didn't win, the Lib Dems did fairly well in the Witney by-election and they are certainly making a big deal about the upcoming Richmond Park by-election. A lot can happen before the next general election, and the next loc
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by ldjb 10y ago
It might be an improvement in this case, though it's common advice to limit the colour palette to a handful of colours. Blue text also doesn't always stand out against certain background colours. Underlining links (particularly wh
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I suppose you could put a heading called 'Myths' above the list of myths. But I don't see how that would help the user realise they are links. Of course, you could call the heading 'Links', but that shouldn't b
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by ldjb 10y ago
I'm aware of what the OP was referring to. I was replying to barrkel's comment about not realising the links were links. But I absolutely agree with you that visited links looking like unfollowed links is a usability issue.
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I'm not too sure what the solution is. You could make the links blue and/or underline them, but that could harm readability and aesthetics. I suppose some sort of icon (like an arrowhead) next to each link could help them to affor
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by ldjb 10y ago
robots.txt only tells bots not to crawl the website. It doesn't say anything about indexing or archival of pages. It would be perfectly possible to have the Wayback Machine respect the robots.txt and not have it crawl or archive any ne
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by ldjb 10y ago
Perhaps access to archived pages should only be blocked when the ia_archiver user agent specifically is denied in the robots.txt. That way they aren't inadvertently blocked by a generic robots.txt that denies everything (which sometime
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Except the BBC do undertake commercial activity within the UK through BBC Worldwide, by selling TV programmes and films through the BBC Store and on DVD/BD. Some of the BBC websites that were previously blocked in the UK (such as Futur
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Detecting the face isn't the problem. The problem is detecting which face is attached to the body wearing the badge. There may be several people in a photo. Determining which face is associated with each badge is no easy feat.
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Slightly expanded article: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6f997f97c5f140a29f385ea05f1b6...
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SICP is still a very good book for learning abstraction techniques, although it does sort of throw you in at the deep end in some ways. TAoCP is great as a set of reference books that you can take a look at when stuck on a problem, but I do
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by ldjb 10y ago
I'm in a similar position myself. I'm in the final year of my BSc, and am looking at doing an MSc to develop my knowledge and skills in software engineering and information security, and also in research. Academic research is some
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We have a handful of them in London, too: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/dec/25/londons-last...
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Have you tried Clementine? https://www.clementine-player.org
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by ldjb 10y ago
I think akerro is asking about the motivation for Microsoft's contributions to OSS, rather than whether they benefit from it (clearly they do). My impression, having spoken to people from Microsoft involved in OSS, is that they are pre
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by ldjb 10y ago
I don't know about other countries, but here in the EU businesses are often required to collect customers' billing address to comply with EU regulation, such as the VAT MOSS.
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I'm curious as to how you'd update the icon for a file type. Would you have to update the inode of every single file of that type? That can't be too efficient. I'm sure there are ways of getting around the problem, but h
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by ldjb 10y ago
There is a common misconception that all of 4chan is like /b/, but you can find some rather good quality discussions on some of the other boards. 4chan covers a lot of niches, and for some of them it is one of the best places to g
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by ldjb 10y ago
Yes, subscriptions to content that can be access through an iOS app aren't required to go through Apple (so long as they are purchased outside of the app), in which case Apple won't take a cut. Note that this is purely down to App
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by ldjb 10y ago
Live video stream from the Kennedy Space Center (you can paste the link into something like VLC): http://kscwmserv1.ksc.nasa.gov/channel4 (Via Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/live/xix3m9uqd06g/updat
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It's not. The page seems to be mostly about the EU, so the list only has EU countries. There is an "Other" option at the bottom of the list, though.
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Pokémon Go does have a competitive element to it (or you could say it's possible to play it competitively). You can compete over who can fill up their Pokédex first (okay, just the 145 that are currently available). You can play the ga
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If you do a Google search for the URL and click the result in the News section, you might be able to access the article. Might work best if you use a new private browsing / incognito window.
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I suppose you could describe it that way. Pair programming certainly isn't for everyone, but under the right conditions, it can be very effective. It can be a good means to share ideas and keep up the motivation. That said, it ultimate
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I regularly browse the web using Lynx, a text-only browser that doesn't even have a setting to enable JavaScript. There should almost always be fallbacks for people who don't have JavaScript, but if you are going to use JavaScript
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You can absolutely use JavaScript to pull an article into the browser. But if the user doesn't have JavaScript, they should still be able to navigate the site the old-fashioned way. It doesn't have to be one way or the other.
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Web pages can still be dynamically generated on the server without needing to use JavaScript.
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I can understand requiring JavaScript if it's a game or some sort of multimedia experience, but something like this really doesn't need JavaScript. Search engines typically don't run JavaScript, so relying on it can be bad fo

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