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Rob_Polding

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About Rob_Polding

Dr Polding holds a PhD and MSc in Information Systems from The University of Sheffield. Specializes in user experience design and development methodologies for creating online applications and online marketing strategies. Research interests focus on Customer Centricity, developing quantitative models for analyzing organizations and understanding what makes companies truly Customer Centric. This has resulted in many recent publications in peer-review conferences and journals.

Previous research interests include e-commerce, web applications, mobile apps, RFID, and big data technologies. Past employment includes working as a CTO and company founder of Linotek, a company that created location aware digital tour guides for museums. He has also worked as a project manager, senior developer, network design manager, and in educational administration as a deputy head teacher at a Madrid school. Companies worked at include British Telecom, Indra, Greenpeace and as a contractor for the Spanish Army.

Currently, a lecturer in software design and development, digital anthropology, database design, information systems modeling, project management, data science and big data analysis.

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    if you mainly play Switch 1 games, it's not worth the upgrade. I've got both and Switch 1 games are not dramatically better. The screen is certainly not as good as the Switch OLED,…

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    Comment #47936661

    These AI companies need to be kept away from Open Source projects. A sad day for Blender :(

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    Comment #47875524

    In my country 95% of people don't mind Meta tracking their location with WhatsApp, so I think the days of people caring about tracking are long gone! I am the exception and believe…

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    This brought back some memories. So nice to see art from an era where you really needed talent to be able to produce it. Such a nice contrast to the AI slop which takes no talent t…

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    Comment #44920800

    GenAI is a bubble, but that’s not the same as the broader field of AI, which is completely different. We will probably not even be using chat bots in a few years, better interfaces…

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    It’s a good thing that most people don’t buy Macs for gaming, as they suck compared to any other platform. Anyone who expects a good experience is fooling themselves as they won’t …

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    Comment #36736916

    I get by in an EU capital city just fine using only trains.

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    Comment #36736901

    That would be the dream. I have too many friends though that refuse to get on a bus, and see a car as their right. I would 100% back banning private ownership.

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    Comment #36736797

    I object to the 1.3 million people that are killed by human drivers every year. They should be banned and autonomous vehicles only allowed on the road, without steering wheels.

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    Comment #33785619

    Maybe the industry will realize that most vegetarians and vegans find anything like meat revolting. They much prefer vegetarian meals that are not ultra-processed and still resembl…

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    Comment #30710093

    Awesome work, I'll be watching the project. A more efficient code editor is sorely needed, well done.

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    I cannot wait for this to come to fruition. Thanks for all the hard work, I'll be installing it as soon as sound and GPU acceleration hit. Amazing work :-)

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