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www.theregister.co.uk 6y ago

Beer rating app reveals homes and identities of spies and military bods

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www.theregister.co.uk 6y ago

What happens when the maintainer of a JavaScript library goes to prison?

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www.bbc.co.uk 6y ago

Danish Rubjerg lighthouse moved inland on skates

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codepen.io 6y ago

Click the Button

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twitter.com 6y ago

Trying to get answers from Uber how my driver managed to drive me halfway up UK

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www.bbc.co.uk 6y ago

Why aren't we living longer?

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en.wikipedia.org 6y ago

Bouncing Bomb

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www.bbc.co.uk 6y ago

Chernobyl vodka: First consumer product made in exclusion zone

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monzo.com 7y ago

Monzo Is Launching in the USA

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www.bbc.com 7y ago

People Who Moved to Chernobyl

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Pokémon Sleep app: 'We want to turn sleep into entertainment'

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www.bbc.com 7y ago

US Civil War-era tunnels and buildings found under Alcatraz prison

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www.slashgear.com 7y ago

Mars One’s ill-fated dream unsurprisingly ends in bankruptcy

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Basic income in Finland did not lead to finding work, researchers said

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Massive spinning ice disk forms in US river

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www.npmjs.com 7y ago

2018 JavaScript Ecosystem Survey

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System'

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Tennessee inmate chooses electric chair over lethal injection

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www.nationalforests.org 7y ago

How Trees Survive and Thrive After a Fire

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

'Croydon cat killer' mystery solved by police

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gizmodo.com 8y ago

The House That Spied on Me

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www.bbc.co.uk 8y ago

The island that switches countries every six months

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www.bbc.co.uk 8y ago

Man ruptures throat by stifling a sneeze

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www.newscientist.com 8y ago

Arsonist falcons suggest birds discovered fire before humans did

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www.vice.com 8y ago

I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant on TripAdvisor

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

Amazon’s Australian Launch Brings Excitement, Dread and Defiance

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orr.gov.uk 8y ago

Estimates of Station Usage 2016-17 [pdf]

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www.bbc.co.uk 8y ago

Little Miss Inventor Joins Mr Men and Little Miss Line-Up

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digiday.com 8y ago

Inside the Guardian’s consumer-revenue operation

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www.bbc.co.uk 8y ago

The island that swapped donkey rides for offshore cash

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had similar encounters with people asking how much longer it will take to get to Ashford as their Eurostar train leaves soon while on a train that stops at Ashford (Middlesex) instead of Ashford International, in Kent

it's a shame we don't hear the kids side in the article

people I know who have done this have eventually changed and allowed/bought a phone as the in school peer pressure was huge and the kids ended up feeling excluded from their social groups as not fitting in (nothing wrong with kids finding their own path btw)

[dead] 7 years ago

on the side note it looks like that is the deputy editor of the bbc.com travel section https://twitter.com/collectingmiles nothing wrong with promoting your teams work I guess, even if you do so silently

looking down the list of submissions interesting to see which articles pick up comments and which don't

actually it was, the whole recruitment contract was for £495m, of which £113 went on the website

from the NAO summary:

The Army initially expected to launch the new online system in July 2013. As we reported in 2014, the Department failed to meet its contractual obligations to provide the IT infrastructure to host Capita’s recruitment software. In January 2014, the Army passed responsibility for developing the whole system to Capita. After a series of delays, Capita launched the system in November 2017. The Army spent £113 million developing the new system and running the legacy system longer than expected. This was triple the original budget. Capita funded development of the new system and the costs of running the legacy systems from July 2015

https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Investigat...

“One big issue is training,” notes Bidwell. “As an employee, your employer may pay to train you and keep you up to date on new technologies. They will also give you a chance to try new kinds of work and learn that way. As a contractor, nobody is paying for you to learn

I've now been contracting as a developer for as long as I was a permanent employee and I've learnt more as a contractor. Sometimes it's been a bit of luck with a job but the rest is mostly from only having to do the job you're in for - so no reviews, company meetings and the rest, plus I can pick and choose (and afford) to go to more workshops and conferences.

It can be easier to be complacent as a perm employee but less so as a contractor.

nothing wrong with a newspaper doing that, you can read it without paying:

Receive complimentary access to two articles from The Times and The Sunday Times every week

I agree.

The BBC do a similar thing with their football news roundup from the daily papers with "<short overview> <paper name> - subscription required"

This doesn't stop people who do subscribe to the site from reading the content linked to and gives a heads up for people who don't.

The Samsung story isn't exclusive to the WSJ and there are plenty of other free to access news sites that would have been better for the submission. If we ban paywalled sites entirely it would prevent submissions of exclusive content (which could be an interview or journal)