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I always find it fascinating as there's also an aspect of documentation with certain street photography. If you look at stuff from the 1980's and see how much things have changed, …

As a hobbyist photographer I once went on a street photography course in London. They did cover the ethics and morals of street photography, along with various techniques about wha…

I remember once as a junior developer meeting up with the head of technology to rely a project update to him. During the meeting his (desk) phone started to ring. He looked down at…

The non-CYMK colours also reminds me of flowers. If you look at photos of flowers, or just look normally, you'll see solid/uniform colour. But if you look at infrared photos of flo…

For me I feel disappointed that hydrogen fuel cells never took off. Toyota spent a fortune researching them, making them safe to avoid Hindenburg disaster type imagery. But it neve…

I've been using Thunderbird for years probably since it was created. I was going to write a message about wishing they would invest more in Thunderbird and fix a particular bug. As…

What we do is have the idea of a present box. When we're out shopping (well in the days when you could go out shopping). If we saw something that would look like a good gift for pe…

Over the years I've worked with many developers who don't write ANY unit tests, relying only on integration tests and this has caused severe bugs that could have easily been caught…

I've found what really has helped me with TDD is a continuous test runner. Different platforms have different takes on them, but in my case it's NCrunch. The fact that it's running…

For those interested in the creation of the QR code. Japanese TV Station NHK World have a 15 minute documentary charting it's creation - https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand…

Private Eye has also created one of the best legal responses that they cite now and again. In the case of Arkell v. Pressdram. If you're curious about it details are on Wikipedia -…

You also have to have somewhere to put the bike while not in use. Bike theft in London (before social distancing at least) was common.

I've been involved in projects that take it a step further. They realise that two products or code bases are similar enough that they can be duplicated, like the example you've giv…

In the UK it's generally the same too. People are always cautious and told to look out for unattended baggage for that reason.

I'd up vote you more than once if I could. Originally when Firefox was released it was the antidote to browser forced add ons that were common at the time. I have vague recollectio…

A thousand times this. I wish more podcasts would have transcripts. I much prefer it to listening to podcasts as I can read at my own speed, which would often be quicker than the a…

I'm a hobbyist photographer. I still shoot film, although not with a Hasselblad. The reason I do it is that I like the aesthetic, different films also have different types of grain…

This reminds me a story a friend of mine told me. When he was a kid he had a job delivering the local free news paper around his local town in the UK. This was at a time when local…

I loved playing TF2 as a pyro. I used a similar technique of running around randomly jetting flames in certain places to find cloaked spies, but also flaming team-mates (as the fla…

What do you mean used to be, how far back do you want to go? What about the Nobel Prizes they were established in 1895. What about Rockefeller and Carnegie?

Something like using a book cipher[1]? But a binary equivalent maybe? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_cipher

I'd never give out expensive gear on a rental site like this. If they can't really deal with people not returning / stealing cameras, what happens if they return the camera damaged…