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andyhmltn

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    Can’t say we’ve experienced this at all. Part of our test involves navigating to a third party site (gocardless) to set up a direct debit. The test works fantastically well and is …

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    I fundamentally disagree with your point that CSS-in-JS is a result of developers not knowing CSS. That's ridiculous CSS-in-JS solves a lot of problems that people that have been w…

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    We've found this as well. So much so that a plan is in place to move providers soon. It often just fails for no good reason at all. During testing I found that the UI completely br…

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    I'm currently having to go through a home insurance claim for a similar reason. I stupidly took one of the keys off and bent a bit of plastic getting it back on. The damaged part o…

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    If the electrical wiring was shoddy enough to come unstuck with a minor road bump, I'd be more concerned about the rest of the wires in the ECU messing up, over a camera. This neve…

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    This is why I love drawing faces. Such a subtle change can make such a big difference to the end drawing. It's really interesting. I guess that's because our brains are so hard wir…

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    Do you own domain names? I began getting this after I was silly enough to leave my mobile number on a WHOIS register. Most of the calls I receive though aren't from legitimate comp…

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    Comment #20765821

    >- Quite often when using unreleased APIs, you turn to using "any" all over the place. What unreleased APIs are you needing to warrant this? We've used any a couple times, but usua…

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    I’ve noticed the same with their notifications. As of right now, I have 1 notification. I will open the menu and see there’s not actually anything there. The badge then goes away. …

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    Not for all of them. All I had to do to get a Starling account was send them a video of me saying my company name

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    That's a hell of an assumption to make

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    Comment #19796739

    On desktop, the page remains white and then the new logo fades and scales into place before the rest of the content appears. I assume they didn't test that on mobile.

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    Comment #19207712

    >But Consciousness... since quantum information isn't lost Is this one of those instances where the word 'quantum' is used to hand-wave away weird ideas?

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    A massive reason I prefer spotify is because of the social aspect of it. Being able to look at a friends playlists is a pretty big deal for me. I would agree if they were pushing s…

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    The Apple Music 'for you' section was something I never really bothered to check. I found the recommendations were poor. I love Spotify's auto-generated playlists. They have a slig…

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    >And non Apple fanboys would never go to Apple music, I did. Apple Music still has one major selling point: They own iTunes so anything on iTunes is on AM. For spotify and other st…

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    >"Or, what does a passport or id card contain, which should be kept secret?" Well for one the passport as a whole can then be used to commit identity fraud or cloned on the black m…

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    With due respect that's completely wrong. Clicker games have been a thing long before microtransactions were around and popular. I remember sinking an hour or two into cookie click…

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    I mean if you read the article the reason they say not to use it is specifically because they used it themselves and were burnt

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    It's hardly surprising sadly. Looking back through my submission history there's two instances of incompetence by the .IO handlers: 1) Storing passwords in plain text: Although the…

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    >Bitcoin price increase is embedded into it, since it has limited supply by design Well no. A limited supply of something doesn't guarantee value. There has to be a need and a want…

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    There's already something in iOS to handle this: The overlay for apple pay. It slides up from the bottom and is easily distinguishable from the app you're using. If they had someth…

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    Switched from Sublime to VSCode a few months ago and I've found it better to my needs. It's free