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hah, I regret the comment either way now!

Apologies, I wasn't trying to infer an opinion either way.

More an opinion that the decision to provide the worst possible UX has a likelihood of being highlighted by the populist media.

Unfortunately not all CDNs respect the Vary:Accept header.

I'm sure it's behind the proliferation of the .format extension to determine response type.

Never fear, the Daily Mail will surely make a call to oust the Monarchy on this basis..

You'd think ICANN would have a .monarchy TLD by now

mailto:liz@british.monarchy

Unfortunately GitHub seems to be pretty guilty of this too.

Lost count of the number of times I've clicked a link in a blog post only to end up with a GitHub 404; I'm sure it is only going to get worse.

Most annoying thing with that one is usually simply going to GitHub search and putting in the original 404'd repo name turns up the one I want.

I'm sure having the 404 serve up a "did you mean" search result would solve the issue for the most part.

The ones that drive me nuts are the 5 star "I bought it for my husband for his birthday next week" kind of reviews..

If the product hasn't been used for at least a few days / weeks (dependant on the item), then it's not a true review; more a reflection on how good Prime is at getting stuff to you on time and with no hassle.

I actually avoid the reviews with photos as 99% of the time they end with "I got this product for my fair and unbiased appraisal" or somesuch.

I've never quite got around to writing a browser plugin that excludes any review that have such a statement, and / or builds up a database of reviewers that are trustworthy on amazon.

The guys in the Top x of reviewers, who receive all this crap to review, basically it's their living, they aren't going to start bad mouthing it.

Maybe take the star rating of each review within a month of a new listing and then compare the average 6 months later to see how shill those initial reviewers are.

Thanks for releasing this, and seriously, thanks for the ridiculous amount of effort you seem to put into the open source tools I'm using daily.

/gush

... warns "expert"

My issue with these stories, is that there generally is no go-to organisation for the new "Thing", so all the news articles end up quoting 'Jim , the self proclaimed expert on Thing"'

Those old ones are still the ones being targeted, they're now worth something again [0]

0: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35716456

This seems to be good advice.

Additionally, I've found that at the point of employment projects don't need to be more than an idea; as long as you get them included with the contract, a simple abstract of what is covered is enough to give you something to play with whilst employed by said company.

Oh, and make sure to include projects even if you don't deem them to conflict with the company's area of core business. IME they'll be met with a chuckle and a 'not sure why these are here', but when the company is subsequently working out how to jump on the latest buzz bandwagon your side project may suddenly fall under some random wing of interest. Far easier to get it in there early.

I believe that's cognitive coercion in action.

Obviously none of us truly believes that `convenience === quality`.

Or simply force a comment if none already exist from a previous down voter. That way first one in has to give a reason for the downvote, which others can then +1 (or is it -1..)

In the US, if it's ever been played out on broadcast TV then it must have Closed Captions.

This is enforced by the FCC [0], but as more and more "internet" content gets consumed I imagine the same regulations will eventually come, at which point you've got a fantastic training set.

0: https://www.fcc.gov/node/23883

Thanks for highlighting that one.. Pure gold.

Yeah, I appreciate that, but if this becomes a general concern that npm can grant ownership to whoever it deems acceptable (even to the point of republishing existing versions), then could we start seeing e.g. WTFPL with npm exceptions style licence fragmentation.

The source could still be readily available to anyone to republish as they see fit, but only as a different name / version.

Not condoning it, just thinking that the original author surely has the right to do this if they plan ahead (judging by the npm backlash that has been building over a single entity holding all the keys some may be starting to think this way).

Presumably, if the original author had changed the licence and pushed to npm prior to change of ownership then npm wouldn't have been able to do this?

Sounds like we could start seeing npm specific releases with different licences to the github repo (or npm specific branches with different licencing)

Obviously npm could re-publish the non npm specific code, but that would be more manual than a simple revert of an unpublish.

Looks really good, thanks for sharing.

Created a sample contract, nice and easy.

Are the contracts the same for US and UK? I've only created a sample UK one, but notice that you use the US spelling for 'license' as opposed to 'licence'.

Is there an option to export archived contracts?

Anyways, I'll likely be using this. Good luck with it.

There was a halfway decent (if simplified) segment on Countryfile [0] about the use of PhytoLux LEDs in the UK.

They've been working with Bristol Uni to investigate the effect of various colours and wavelengths on plant growth (Something Gigaom, linked, is only just experimenting with); they claim energy efficiency [1] as just one advantage when using vertical farming methods.

0: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06z9ph6/countryfile-no...

1: http://resources.phytolux.com/images/phytolux/newsletters/Pr...

The UK has historically been a society where the poor majority worked the land and rented from a few wealthy landowners. [0]

This builds a psyche whereby to own land becomes a social status.

Bring into that heady mix the likes of Maggie Thatcher's "right to buy" [1] scheme, whereby the lesser class (council house residents) are in a position to buy their homes at a fraction of their apparent worth, and suddenly you need to own your house or be seen to be less than those that do.

Then a new generation comes along and sees that their parents "foolishly" sold off a couple of houses years ago that would now have been worth a mint, and everyone must buy a house else be caught out like their parents.

Buy to let then brings in the mentality of "why would you give money to someone else to pay off their mortgage when you could be paying off your own?" and everyone must buy as early as possible.

Pure conjecture on my part.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_structure_of_the_United...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Buy

No doubt JetBrains will step up to the mark.

They already have support for swift in AppCode, but surely a community edition "SwiftStudio" can't be too much to wish for.

It worked wonders for Android development outside of Eclipse.

> CORS isn't a proxy;

I don't think the GP was implying that.

If you don't control the upstream content you don't necessarily control the CORS settings. Hence the need for CORS proxies to work around an ideal introduced by the major browsers in the last few years.

In the real world you may well have the right to access third party content, but in many cases you require them to expend engineering resource to perform the very simple task of enabling a simple set of headers, so end up having to proxy content.

Take Chromecast for example - it takes CORS to the extreme requiring it set on HLS manifests and .ts video files, meaning any proxy solution has to take the full cost of proxying the full video content. MP4 files don't have this restriction, nor do any browsers.

To me it very much feels like the web is splitting into two - Sites that you stumble upon and want completely sandboxed, and those you come back to repeatedly and provide enough value for you to click "yes, have my location"..

For a second there I though they'd done something really clever with progressive jpegs!

Oh, but it's there!

https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM

It is however touted as 'an easy and fun way to improve your English'..

Village name marketing gimmicks aside, good tool.

You can use the &s param (or the dropdown..) to change the style of the image created by websequencediagrams.

&s=napkin for yourself.

&s=omegapple for management.

vs If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it?

Sounds like we need a "It's not my f-ing problem" licence.

I understood that was the point of LGPL over GPL; it stops the GPL licence bleeding into other areas if you are simply using a library as is.

This makes it viable to integrate LGPL libraries into commercial products.

Firstly, from a non biased, completely subjective point of view, that is one of the quickest loading pages I've seen in a while. A great showcase for the service, congrats on getting it out there.

I had a few questions I don't see answers to on the landing page:

Do you support pushing to edge nodes? Do you support the Vary header across things like Accept & Accept-Encoding? Is the $25/mo for 100GB across multiple domains? Any plans for higher tiers?

Out of interest, how big is the team behind this? What's your background? Would be interested to hear of how you go about setting this up to be quicker than the competitors, and what lessons you've learnt along the way.

All in all it looks really compelling - Good luck with it.

One of the key reasons I use Netflix is the lack of ads.

Coming from the UK where we have historically been lucky enough to access quality content from the BBC, all without ads, the notion that I should pay $100 a month to access half decent programming that is saturated by ads seems bizarre.

I was more than happy to pay the marginal cost of Netflix on top of the TV licence tax to get access to their original content (which is generally very good quality as noted elsewhere).

Some of the 'Netflix original content' is however simply content produced by the BBC, that Netflix have contributed to in some way (They get a credit) - Take Peaky Blinders for instance.

One thing they are missing is a decent local news feed though..