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simonturvey

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    Do you support a kind of internal "yes, but..." note so that opportunities for improvement can be drawn from the questionnaires themselves and tracked? I always wanted that to be w…

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    Comment #18919108

    > A Remain victory wouldn't have come with a 25% drop in the pound, rampant inflation, the worst growth rate of G8 countries Why do people spout such provable nonsense?! Inflation …

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    Comment #17595451

    Thanks William. I look forward to hearing from them. We only have 10 days left on our trial.

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    Comment #17587617

    Only if you actually then invest some time in selling it. I've had radio silence from their sales team when requesting to purchase an self-hosted licence. The one thing I know abou…

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    Comment #17587610

    I guess you didn't read the 11.1 release notes where they stated they were standardising on http://commonmark.org/ right?

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    Comment #15810536

    Shameless plug follows...! I'd love it if you'd take a look at https://trint.com - we're designed exactly for what you're looking for. We use machine learning to deliver a highly a…

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    Comment #13809246

    - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - V for Vendetta - Alan Moore/David Lloyd - Heat: How we can stop the planet burning - George Monbiot These are the books that quite literally changed m…

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    Comment #12497288

    I was quite sympathetic until I hit the mini-bio at the bottom: "Matt Kulka works for Local Motors in Phoenix, Arizona. He loves to drive cars around race tracks, his expensive hob…

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    Comment #12117089

    Care to elaborate why that's so surprising? Nokia's been investing externally like this for a couple of decades. PayPal (Confinity at the time) would be a good example!

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    Comment #12012319

    As a Brit I'd just like to say that _that_ is how a country should grasp an opportunity. Rather than the bitchy whining I've seen from many of my compatriots so far!

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    Comment #11676751

    Just installed this via homebrew. Looks pretty good to me so far. Just a wrapper round the various web versions of the messenger services but saves me pinned tabs in my browser at …

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    Comment #11107208

    That's awesome. And covers the area traveled by The Martian too. Just spent rather too much time zooming in and out of interesting features!

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    Comment #10748101

    It's like Mariah Carey's running through a forest of wind chimes and you can just make out her voice through the chaos!

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    Comment #9978239

    Is there any plan to allow the service to point at one's own DO or AWS account? That would remove one more privacy concern some folk seem to have.

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    Comment #9977795

    Well, at some point you have to trust the legally binding contract you enter in to. Otherwise you're proposing to put servers in your garage (or wherever) which is precisely the co…

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    Comment #9977561

    Great to see this launched at last. Congratulations guys! Good luck.

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    Comment #9500586

    I disremember exactly where but I recall once reading that Robert Peel, founder of the London Metropolitan Police, asserted that police should be considered as members of the publi…

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    Comment #9381785

    Just because you can't see the Nokia logo on the cell towers and base stations doesn't mean we don't make them. I'll take physical evidence and a balance sheet over dumb stuff like…

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    Comment #9069927

    The term "institutional buyer" covers a broad spectrum. It's not just the deep-pocketed tech firms that buy smartphones. It's also your hospitals, animal shelters, fast food franch…

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    Comment #9063813

    Except one of those mature markets is represented by incumbent installations such as governmental departments and big companies. They're pretty reluctant to hand over hosting respo…

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    Comment #9063718

    I like that MSFT appear to be attempting to reinvent responsive design for the native world ;) It will be interesting to see how, if at all, this dovetails with their SmartGlass ef…

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