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Contactless is supported in the UK as well (usually up to a £20 minimum), but isn't nearly as widely supported as chip +pin, and I certainly don't know anyone who uses it regularly…

Google "Design"

> We all know that this goes against the beliefs of 90% of programmers and engineers Based on what? Within the bubble of hackernews, that's maybe true, but there are (evidently) a …

Should have printed it out as images via ReCaptcha

Because they get no immediate return from profit (from dividends), but the value of the stock still increases (hopefully moreso if they are reinvesting more of their profit into fu…

Exactly: "Promotions" is not "Spam". There is already a spam folder, so these should go straight in there, if anywhere. How does this fit in with the CAN-SPAM act? "Unsubscribe com…

The people targeted by phishing attacks have no idea what those terms mean.

Genuine? This seems so forced and fake it's quite painful. No person ever would reply "Fat with a protruding chin" when asked to describe their face.

And I'm amazed that this hasn't caught on in the US yet. Last time I vistited, I was horrified when they swiped the magnetic strip and asked me to sign for it - felt like I'd jumpe…

Excellent writeup here [1] of the use of DirectX over OpenGL in games. OpenGL is far from the rosy open source alternative. [1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/60544…

Did it implement RFC 2324?

Not everyone has an iPhone. Young children do/should not have smartphones. Paper does not require constant updates, maintenance and bugfixes. Paper is cheaper. People want to play …

"Sharing is not broken" "Share this on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, LinkedIn, SlashDot, Myspace, Technorati, Friendfeed, Messenger, or Stumbleupon."

"Cause" is not a valid contraction for "Because." Looks fairly out of place in text.

Or the regular police would suffice, in this case.

The point is that it's very easy for a company to measure the metrics they should care about (i.e. quality and quantity of work output) rather than making random correlations. An I…

Atos Origin announced abandoning internal emails a couple of years ago: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/atos-orgin-to-abandon-i... At a quick glance, couldn't find anything mo…

What is meant by a 'language' is actually fairly well defined mathematically: That is something that can be described by a number of grammars. These in turn can be categorised (see…

Tool icons on the left need text (or at least a hover-over). Currently it's a complete mystery what they do, and users don't like clicking on mystery commands.

Facebook's mobile apps have to use the Facebook API, which is notoriously terrible. Facebook have no reason to devote resources to this, as they don't want third party implementati…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_irregular_verbs Is possibly a better indication. Many other languages also has irregular verbs, but I think the number of extra rules a…

Sounds like p4merge.

Web "Apps"

Simon Marlow's original letter where he mentions this is directly below Simon PJ's reply in the original link.

I am amazed that their 'huge revelation' was that perhaps they shouldn't be doing huge amounts of dynamic image generation client side. Is the point of this article "we managed to …