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Scientists make eye's retina from stem cells(bbc.co.uk)
29 points by rlivsey 16y ago|0 comments
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by rlivsey 16y ago
BBC news has more detail on why the UK are rejecting this proposal: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12879566 "It is right that the EU sets high-level targets for carbon reduction, however it is not right for them to get in
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by rlivsey 16y ago
If there was, I expect its website would be nicer to look at...
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by rlivsey 16y ago
If it was simply a control issue then that wouldn't that imply that people should be as scared to take the bus or the train as they are flying in a plane? I don't doubt that there's a component of control involved, but I expect that the who
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by rlivsey 16y ago
We're currently using Flying Saucer [1] for this in our app with good results. It supports mostly all of CSS 2.1, CSS 3 support for rounded corners etc… would be nice though. The fact it respects page breaks is a huge bonus. [1] - http://c
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The man with a plastic heart(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by rlivsey 16y ago|0 comments
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by rlivsey 16y ago
Not sure what the point of the ratings system is, there's not an app on there that I could find which rated lower than 4/5.
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by rlivsey 16y ago
I'm half and half between "I'm currently working fulltime on my own startup" and "I'm working on a project on the side" depending which way you look at it. I'm doing 2 or 3 days a week freelance/contract work to support working on the start
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by rlivsey 16y ago
I live in London and am working on a startup. I used to go to quite a few tech events in London but found I was spending too much time with like-minded people (techies) and not enough with people who had other backgrounds and interests. The
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by rlivsey 16y ago
This is exactly what happened to me. I find myself being amazingly productive between the hours of 2 - 6AM and then getting up at 2PM or so. It plays hell with the social life though and I found that it isn't worth it in the long run.
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by rlivsey 16y ago
My latest sleep hack has been to get a girlfriend who has a "proper job" [1] for which she needs to wake up at the same time every morning. If I'm woken by an alarm clock when I'm on my own it's very easy for me to hit snooze / turn it off
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by rlivsey 16y ago
It doesn't even need to be a reset link, it could be a link with a unique ID which logs you into the site directly. I'd have thought that would be even more convenient than telling the user their password, as all they have to do is click a
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by rlivsey 16y ago
This is the same as any online gaming site. I used to work for Victor Chandler [1] and there's basically a small number of companies who supply the games to all the different gaming sites. NetEnt [2] and Playtech [3] are the two which I can
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by rlivsey 16y ago
For us it's just another thing that's not our core competency which we're happy to have outsourced so that other people worry about security/maintenance etc... Similar rationale for using Spreedly [1] for subscription billing. In the future
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by rlivsey 16y ago
Ah fair point, I don't use Chromium so hadn't noticed whether or not the effect was present. The page itself confused me though as I thought the inline images were meant to be working demos and they did nothing for me until I went to the de
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by rlivsey 16y ago
Graceful degradation doesn't just mean "works without JavaScript". This demo doesn't let you link to (or bookmark) a page or open questions in new tabs. For an app like Gmail that probably doesn't matter, but for something like this I'd say
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by rlivsey 16y ago
It doesn't work for me on the article page itself, but it you view the demo (link at the bottom of the article) then you can see it working.
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by rlivsey 16y ago
We've not put it into production yet (it's coming in the new version) but are putting it through its paces in staging and it's handling things well so are confident it's ready for our usage. There are people on the mailing list which are us
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by rlivsey 16y ago
We're using ElasticSearch [1] and finding it really nice to work with. It's basically Lucene with a nice JSON/RESTful interface and distributed out of the box. Unlike most other Lucene based systems that I've played with it allows you to ge
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by rlivsey 16y ago
He addresses that in the paragraph before: My first attempt at plotting the data involved plotting very transparent lines. Unfortunately there was just too much data to get a meaningful plot — even at very low opacity, there wer
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Start-Ups Follow Twitter, and Become Neighbors(nytimes.com)
7 points by rlivsey 16y ago|0 comments
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by rlivsey 16y ago
In this case I'd opt for "clean" as a better word for what you're trying to describe. I'd have thought everyone understands what a clean URL is without bringing across all the extra baggage/meaning of calling it RESTful.
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by rlivsey 16y ago
Pizza deliveries are all basically that last-mile, you're not normally ordering a pizza from another city/country. That means the company has lots of individual restaurants with their own delivery operations (guys on bikes) who handle that
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by rlivsey 16y ago
It's a difficult one because our decisions & mistakes made earlier in our lives are what make us who we are today. It's a cliché, but mistakes are an opportunity to learn, that means I've had a hell of a lot of learning experiences! If
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by rlivsey 16y ago
They did a similar thing to me the other week. Their idea of a safe place was on my doorstep, in plain view of the street. Needless to say it wasn't there when I looked. As others have mentioned, the really annoying thing here was that I wa
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by rlivsey 16y ago
White Label Dating [1] is one (aptly named) white-label package that I know of. [1] - http://www.whitelabeldating.com/
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Business of Enterprise Software Mastermind (Google Group)(groups.google.com)
1 points by rlivsey 16y ago|0 comments
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by rlivsey 16y ago
It's not the usual case of extra fluff in the URL causing the uniqueness check to fail, they are significantly different and only following the link would show them as the same thing. Looks like this one is the canonical URL vs the one I po
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by rlivsey 16y ago
In a previous life I worked at a company [1] doing things similar to this [2]. It was great to see it put to use in the 7/7 London bombings, and it certainly helped save a few lives over the years. When I left a couple of years ago we were
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by rlivsey 16y ago
If it's anything like Fluid.app [1] on the Mac then I'm a big fan. I have numerous web-apps setup as dedicated applications using Fluid and find it much nicer than having them as tabs in the same browser, or in their own browser windows. It

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