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I think I am a bit odd, but whenever I donate, I opt-out of gift aid, so that I don't have to remember the values for the tax return (hate filling in forms). It's often difficult to opt-out of it too. Sometimes you have to select that the donation is from someone else, or you have to select that you aren't from the UK. It's rarely a yes/no question. Like I say, I'm odd. :)

By the way, good luck. I think KS would have given the project more momentum, but JustGiving is fine too.

I guess a weekly edition would make sense, keeping up-to-date with a daily newspaper can be practically a chore.

I've used quite a few over the years, Lloyds TSB was probably the best in terms of usability (but others will likely disagree). If I were choosing a bank though, I would be more interested in their ethics, hidden charges - which usually means avoiding PLCs.

Simple answer: don't rely on "cloud" services. There's often a good reason for these restrictions, such as copyright and IP limitations. If you want to own something, then actually own it.

The comment higher up says A/B testing is used, that may be true for publishers that make use of performance ads. If you're a well known entity then you try to only accept brand ads (CPM - pay per impression/view), and those brand ads come with lots of conditions.

Advertisers want to appear near the top of the page or near the top of the content - that's why ad networks have rules about the placement of ads. Even Google (which is more performance than brand) limits the number of units that are displayed on a single page.

If your ads are at the top then there's a good chance that they will appear on the user's screen. If your ads are at the bottom and the user found the article boring then the browser was closed before seeing the ad, yet the impression was still paid for (hence, much lower rates).

To give some context for an otherwise abstract label? Like .ac.uk is likely to be a school or university, .gov.uk is something government related. To me, .co.uk is the wild west of the UK domains, so be a bit more guarded.

I think something like YouView has the most potential. It needs a few more years of development, but it could be bundled into TVs and resold to broadcasters in other countries as a state broadcasting standard.

Not quite right. For the UK, £300 million of the licence fee budget (over the next couple of years) will pay for the roll out of high speed internet to rural communities. I doubt the BBC wanted to do it, but it looks like they'll be subsidising ISPs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/19181454

In addition to this, it's worth noting that not all calories are created equally. If you process your food to make juices, smoothies etc (or buy it already processed), then you'll get a greater, more immediate hit of energy than if your body broke it down itself.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/08/27/th...

I see Kickstarter as more of a service to get well established businesses to focus on difficult, specialist, low margin projects, particularly computer games. Most of these design-focused hardware projects ring alarm bells in my head.

In my location, those sorts of disabled facilities have more than one use, so if there's no disabled person taking the space, then parents with prams or buggies use them, if there's no parents, then standard passengers use them (they have more leg room and are close to the door). They are always busy spaces, so not sure why they'd be a problem.

What the EU did with the standardisation of connectors was a good thing for consumers. I'm not really sure why someone would side with Apple in this respect, other than if you own shares in the business, work for them, for a supplier etc.

Vista was such a clunky OS, a transition between XP, which was snappy but required lots of configuration, to something that worked well from the start (Windows 7). That's why I am not touching the next Windows OS, it's another transition and to me an OS should be virtually invisible, not a nuisance.

To protect it for a future online auction?

The ICO's interpretation of the privacy law requires the user to understand that continued usage of a website will result in tracking (i.e. alert them until they agree), so the BBC's version complies better with the recommendations.

That's what they mean by implied consent – the user can use the website so long as they understand the situation, they don't have to physically agree. A lot of websites then decided to take their own meaning from the term "implied consent" without reading the document.

That's the main reason why I learned REBOL back in the day. I could build something on my Amiga and it would work the same no matter what platform.

It is probably a strange thing to say (i.e. common knowledge for others), but it only recently occurred to me that people develop a standard pose for photos. If you look at a family album or say Facebook or Flickr, and scroll through historic photos, the most "photogenic" people look almost identical. Those people will face in a certain direction with the same shape of smile and posture, it's almost freaky how identical they are! So it's obviously a practised/fake thing, that some learn to do while others remain oblivious. Back then, this concept would not have existed.

According to a recent talk by a lead developer, the website does now implement Symfony2 components on top of the Zend Framework.

https://speakerdeck.com/u/jcleveley/p/how-we-built-the-new-r...

Also, you're allowing yourself to become exclusively dependent on another company's platform.

Yep. It's great for basic tasks. I used it early on when moving from Photoshop to Gimp... useful for dealing with files from new versions of Photoshop, but disabled enough by its lack of advanced features with layers.

I think the length of the interview is important. If it is, say, 15 minutes to an hour long, then sure, stick around and see what happens.

All-day interviews can be draining/horrible experiences, especially when it has sunk in that you aren't getting the position, don't fit in and so on.

I once instructed someone to download Open Office and he downloaded an unofficial version that I guess appeared first on the search engine. It was bundled with a not-so-nice toolbar, so these things do happen.

Building a product on top of another isn't the best of ideas (without having alternatives). Plus, VB is Oracle.

It has a similar effect to Flash ads on my laptop, the fan fires up to full power, so yes, an off button please.

A side effect of an increasingly individualistic society, some countries more so than others. I could only really see this working in a highly corporate and controlled environment, like a light rail station in a business district, maybe an airport but only after the security gates.

For the majority of developers, it's whatever database server that control panels like cPanel and Plesk choose, and they aren't the sort to switch on a whim.

I would never pay for something like that, I barely see a use for ad-supported social networks, but those that pay will feel a psychological pressure to make use of their investment, it will also create a feeling of privilege; whereas something like Google+ is seen as free, open and less valued, and therefore needs to vie for the attention.

The thing that's always bothered me about that browser is the name, it almost sounds like it was chosen to be antagonistic, like they had a chip on their shoulder. I am probably reading too much into it, but that's the impression I get when comparing the two names: Firefox = fast & determined; Iceweasel = cold & deceitful.

From what I have read about him, my guess is he's somehow trying to subvert the system... what better way to get international publicity to your cause than to be effectively placed under house arrest in a stable nation while being protected by a third party state. At the very least, it's going to make people think about the situation.

They are useful but non-intuitive, so I imagine most people relearn them each time they meet - unless you are stuck doing it all the time.