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Completely off topic, but TVCatchup provide an XBMC plugin which completely avoids the advertising they add. No idea why, since it presumably destroys their business model, but it'…

I moved from Natwest to First Direct a couple of months ago, and have had a great experience so far. Their online banking isn't quite so nice as Natwest's, but that's more than mad…

They can track response rates for particular flyers by pointing them at different URLs. Measurable A/B testing for physical advertising.

Your cat may already have an RFID tag - they're used in the process of "chipping" cats so that they can be traced if they find themselves at a vet without their owner. If there is …

Having just got to the end of a frustrating couple of days and realising I haven't left the house since Tuesday, I totally endorse this. And on that note, I'm going out.

> now 90% of the work is done Which presumably leaves the other 90% to finish.

> That bread you find at Kroger, somebody had to work to make it appear in your cart. In any community there is likely to be someone with a passion for something. Whether that some…

> A programmer's salary is great, but why can't I work 20 hours as a programmer, and 20 hours as a tree-planter, or teaching rock climbing to high school kids, for maybe 55% of a p…

This is why I love open source. 30 minutes ago I was thinking "I wonder if there's a WYSIWYG editor that integrates with Bootstrap." And now, here I am, reading about it.

Yup, police with submachine guns are completely routine at Heathrow. They're also not an uncommon sight around certain parts of London these days - all the big government buildings…

I'm starting to use service objects, which are responsible for coordinating things when multiple models are required to perform an operation, or complex business logic is involved.…

This strikes me as being similar to extracting bits of a model out into modules that then get included back into that model. It looks like you're reducing the complexity of the mod…

One advantage of "Heroku's" nickel and diming is that the money is actually being split with other companies in most cases, and those companies core competency is providing exactly…

If you're hiring dedicated people to manage your servers bare metal becomes even more appealing, especially if they know what they're doing and can allow you to burst out to a clou…

I'm agreed on the week of work, since as you say, no one in a proper job is going to take a week of holiday to come and work for someone who may or may not employ them. Probation h…

If all goes well, you'll be a mid-sized company at some point. I say that from painful experience - we're about to hire our second developer at work, and I'm not looking forward to…

Is causing your customers to think you're ripping them of, and making them look elsewhere for service actually maximising profit though? Given the cost of acquiring a customer they…

I'm in a similar company at the moment - it's not quite GitHub, but the atmosphere of smart people working on things they love is there. Since I started they've also started adapti…

"you have a PM screaming at your engineers" - and there lies your problem. I'm the sole engineer for a distinctly non-engineering company (we deliver food, and I'm the only person …

Its actually fairly standard practice for bulk SMS providers to charge for receiving messages as well.

I love that you have a problem with people calling copyright infringement "stealing", but no qualms at all about calling it "piracy" instead, which is an entirely different affair.…

At least in the UK it costs a decent chunk of money to get the name on your passport changed after marriage. Not a huge amount, but enough that it's easier to just book tickets und…

I'm not convinced by the idea of heavily specialised high schools. At that age you should be discovering what you're passionate about, and sampling a wide range of subjects. The fo…

Another alternative is Cheat " rel="nofollow">http://cheat.errtheblog.com/>Cheat , which is essentially a CLI accessible wiki of usage examples. It was originally focused on Ruby (…