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scottmcf··on Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
Is THAT what's doing that? That is extremely annoying, is it possible to safely use a flag to disable this?
scottmcf··on Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports
The clubs model brings a different set of problems, especially in populations already divided by religion or class. See the sectarianism and tribalism that have developed around the Old Firm derby in Glasgow, for example.
scottmcf··on Met Office to build £97m supercomputer
Olympic sized swimming pools give a little more granularity.
scottmcf··on Scots, What the Heck?
The plan is for Scotland to honour all current visas. Any reapplications/extensions/etc would then just go through the Scottish system thereafter rather than the UK system.

The intention is also to make immigration to Scotland easier and more forgiving, and expand the number of visas granted, not tighten up the rules.

http://scotreferendum.com/questions/i-am-living-in-scotland-...

http://scotreferendum.com/questions/what-will-an-independent...

scottmcf··on What will I look like?
Precisely. A really hot day sounds more impressive when you say 82 Fahrenheit, rather than 28 Celsius. Similarly, you get down into the negative numbers way sooner with Celsius (since freezing is 0, rather than 32).

Just makes for better headlines, although almost everyone uses C now.

scottmcf··on Show HN: Colorbars – A challenging new take on the match three game genre
I enjoyed the game, but had a couple of suggestions:

Add a small colour wheel to the main playing area (maybe only for the first few challenges per game?). It's on the pause screen already, but I know when things got hectic I'd have liked it to be there in front of me.

The single colour challenges were pretty punishing, in that there really weren't enough bars coming of that colour to push through to the next challenge. Perhaps give a small amount of time for non-challenge related matches?

scottmcf··on The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life
Scots commonly refer to this as a hot toddy, and as well as the lemon juice and honey we'll add a healthy dose of whisky. Adding pepper or cinnamon is common too.
scottmcf··on White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention
It is, however, far more commonly used when referring to same-sex couples.
scottmcf··on Why is cycling so popular in the Netherlands?
For comparison purposes, this would mean $130-140 to fill up a minivan type vehicle in the USA.
scottmcf··on Kaspersky researcher cracks Flame malware password
Thanks for that explanation. Being accustomer to a UK keyboard layout this didn't occur to me (as shift 1-3 is !"£ here).
scottmcf··on Why Ratings Systems Don't Work
Obviously, it doesn't explain everything from your example, but Kongregate rewards users for voting for games (1 point per rating in their levelling scheme). This will have some impact on how people vote.
scottmcf··on The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)
I wasn't planning on buying this bundle either, but not because of the regularity of the bundles, more because of the quality of the content. Some of the previous bundles have contained a little much filler/incomplete games/etc.

They've really stepped up the contents with this pack though, I know myself and a few friends feeling much the same bought it immediately. There's an incredible amount of high quality gaming in this pack.

scottmcf··on Reddit becomes reddit Inc.
That's true, however it's not really in a highly usable state. I believe it's one of their aims (although, that's been the case for a while) to remedy that situation, but you'd have a tough time using it in this way at the moment.
scottmcf··on Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends
If it's still on their servers, to comply with the act they'd need to provide access to your information within 40 calendar days for a charge no greater than £10.
scottmcf··on Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends
Data Protection wouldn't cover this. They're keeping the data securely, and you have personal access to it. Data Protection doesn't stipulate that you must be able to easily export your data to rival services, I'm afraid.
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