You can now comment on a policy in Polifesto. Here's a policy with a couple of comments. This policy, 'Citizen's Income' is also the highest rated policy, with 300 points. One of the next things to do is a notification system where you can received email notifications for new versions …
read moreCustomer service is expensive. If you want good customer service then you pay a higher price. Most people (me included) want cheap stuff, so we put up with poor customer service.
Incidentally, with a citizen's allowance, labour costs would drop and so you'd get better customer service at the same …
read morehttp://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/27/this-mugs-got-my-name-on-it
Tony, hire does your vision of free markets deal with the actual reality?
Polifesto used to use a subset of HTML5 to mark up policies. I thought that this might be a bit unforgiving for users because there'd be an error if the markup wasn't valid XML. Influenced by a blog post, I thought I'd give Creole a try. Let me know what …
read moreHarsh, but honest! So what's your reasoning?
read moreUtter waste of time, effort and blog post.
Well you did ask!
read moreI've been a long-time fan of OpenId, but I now think BrowserId is better. Here are the two main reasons why:
The thing is that once you've committed in Mercurial, the idea is that it stays there forever. In Git, the idea is that commits only become immutable when it's made public.
That means that with Git you can look back over the history and change it so that it makes …
read moreYour description of mercurial doesn't tie up with my (limited) experience, especially with regards to watching holby city. Unfortunately I'm too tired to Zzzzzzzzz
read moreI know very little about the religious war of Git versus Mercurial, but ignorance has never stopped me from having a firm opinion.
I come down on the side of Git for these reasons:
Mercurial has the idea of local version numbers as well as universal hashes …
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