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The Mikado Method

The inability to comment on any line in a PR is a real pain. I’m disappointed to see the plans for this abandoned.

I use this method and became converted after a long lived refactor branch caused merge hell, delayed a project for many months and caused all manner of bugs that we were fixing for…

This is great

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I found the write up of the Dazzle Walk itself to be a much more fascinating read http://walkspace.uk/2021/03/birmingham-dazzle-walk/

Great suggestion. We'll look into it. We do make money from booking commissions, but our commissions are much lower than those of the OTAs and more importantly go to a company that…

A Firefox version is high on our list

Thank you for pointing this out. We'll look at this and see if we can enumerate the OTAs on which Scout works as you suggest. I can assure you that the extension collects only what…

For rates that are available to everyone, the hotel chains are generally contractually restricted from offering a lower rate than the OTA. Currently the Priceline/Expedia duopoly w…

Nine months ago, an article "For Hotels, There’s No Room Left for Online Travel Agencies" sparked some interesting discussion on HN [1]. Many of the topics discussed informed the d…

Room Key | Charlottesville, VA | Front-End Developer | Onsite Room Key is a hotel search engine owned by six of the world's largest hotel companies. We provide access to member-onl…

Room Key | Clojure Developer | Charlottesville, VA | Full time | ONSITE Room Key is a hotel search engine jointly owned by six of the world’s largest hotel companies. We are lookin…

It works this way for me. My credentials work for both .uk and .com although I only have Prime on .com. My order history is unique to the country site, but address book is the same…

Cyclist here. It's a different type of vehicle than a leg-powered bike and therefore not cheating at all... unless you're recording your rides on Strava, then it is. More bikes is …

I agree with your comment about Austen's female protagonists. The article's author appears to have assumed that because Austen writes in the third person, equal weight can be given…

We're aware of the issues - and we're working on a much improved mobile presence. Coming soon. Thanks for the feedback.

It's very true that in terms of hotel booking many consumers still see the big OTAs as the "bargain" sites and are often surprised to find that you can usually get an equal or bett…

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It did to begin with. BBC changed the article when they realised.

Not a discovery. Not a rabbit hole. I grew up 2 miles from the caves/temple and went down the hole pictured many times. There's existing stuff about them online if you Google - not…