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sthulbourn

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    Comment #8432276

    The line is equipped with an Automatic Train Operation system (ATO); the train operator (driver) closes the train doors and presses a pair of "start" buttons, and if the way ahead …

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    Comment #7715615

    The BBC use the pre-baked AMIs exclusively for our deployments, we have a concept of a "bakery" which creates a full formed AMI which we then use in our launch config. The idea bei…

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    Comment #7347000

    We use pretty aggressive compression on images at the moment, so yes. We need to start work on guessing the user's network speed so we can show higher quality images.

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    Comment #7346994

    Clear all BBC cookies

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    Comment #7346563

    We might consider removing the pinch-to-zoom lock, previously a dependency caused us to enable it.

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    Comment #7346559

    Hi, I'm not sure why you think we're using bootstrap, we're not. Everything in our code base is bespoke (with the exception of jQuery 2). As a result, we get to choose our breakpoi…

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    Comment #7346381

    Try: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news?view=beta

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    Comment #7346378

    I'm one of the developers working on this site. For those of you who are on a wanting to see the site mentioned in the page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news?view=beta You can ask us abou…

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    Comment #7346368

    Yes there are. I'm one of them.

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    Comment #6495548

    That's why it's called enterprise

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    Comment #6282631

    Correction: Every time you see or hear "terrorists" replace it with "citizens". > Lord Blair told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme: "The state has to have secrets – that'…

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    Comment #6136875

    ... I had a prototype that did that.

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    Comment #6136873

    We don't want pixel perfect on all browsers, we know it's unrealistic.

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    Comment #6136859

    It does, kind of crudely though. You have to comment out a method and then comment out another. There's a ruby refactor that allows you to just specify an environment var.

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    Comment #6136849

    Disclosure: I'm a developer of this tool & work for BBC News. We use this for catching things that we'd never spot, a good example of how it has helped us is after a giant Sass ref…

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    Comment #6022830

    I have this new system for "agile". You write everything down and then cross it out when it's done, continue until everything is done.

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    Comment #4387027

    How does it handle developer certs from Apple? I'd rather not share mine with a 3rd party or my code. One could easily just run jenkins/hudson/travis (with plugins) locally and do …

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