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Re:Spinner on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @08:18AM (#13481148)
I'm not in general a bing fan, but this is super useful

http://www.bing.com/search?q=speed+test&qs=n&form=QBLH&sp=-1...

because a lot of accounts provide an interest rate that's below inflation
Re:LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Gives $14M in Stock to Employees on Thursday March 03, 2016 @06:32AM (#11216202)
donating a kidney when you only have 1 is vastly more impressive
Re:Show HN: Goalie – A habit tracker on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @01:17PM (#9687179)
I would have been willing to pay an upfront fee, but in app purchases is a massive turn off
Re:How we built the new BBC Homepage on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @05:50AM (#9061556)
you mean by license fee payers.

Given the bbc is the 7th most popular site in the UK, and a clear leader over other news sites, I don't see why it shouldn't be paid for by the license. It fulfils its requirements outstandingly well.

(There are questions about whether given the move away from a tv based model the bbc should be paid for by tax payers, and that's fair)

Re:Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @05:23AM (#8486581)
He's been doing this since the 70s. When I broke my back 10 years ago there was another panarama in which he'd shown dramatic improvement in rats.

He's only got round to spinal injury's now because its something occasionally improves without aid and is therefore unreliably for scientific tests. He was looking at other types of injury (I can't remember the name) where the nerves to the arm are torn out, as this never shows any signs of recovery.

He's now moved on to knife wounds as these offer the cleanest types of complete break ie very unlikely to improve later.

Raisman has been thorough and methodical about this. Its his life's work and I have no doubt he'll succeed

(I was actually in hospital with Dan Nicholls, whose father has been funding Reiman's research http://www.nsif.org.uk/)

Re:Web Framework Benchmarks Round 2 on Friday April 05, 2013 @06:47PM (#5501525)
In their previous test they said that it wasn't fair to test with C# on Mono as its not as performant as C# on windows.