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Sorry but I don't really see the link between that article and Microsoft's inconsistent use of the term RTM. They can still move to a rapid release cycle and have a solid RTM. Chro…

Google cut the price a couple of weeks back. The 8GB N4 is £159. You can grab it from here https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_4_8_GB?i...

Other companies are not the point here though. Microsoft is and they have been consistent in their use for the past two decades or more so why the sudden change?

This is the thing that has annoyed me the most about this whole thing. RTM has always meant "release to manufacturing and IT pros". If Microsoft wanted to change this fair enough b…

God yes I miss those buttons on my paperwhite :( I also wish I could turn the backlight off completely rather than just lower it to the lowest setting.

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I have pretty much always done this for mail I am just CC'd on while on holiday for more than a couple of days. I don't auto delete email sent just to me though. Works well and mak…

I couldn't disagree more. Yes Office has loads and loads of extra features but I have never seen a university use anything more than the most basic of features. LibreOffice covers …

IMHO you started him with boring languages. C and Forth? If he has an Android phone I would have started with Java. Otherwise I would have just started with Python. He would probab…

Not gonna lie, I would buy that in a heartbeat.

Nice to see bug fixes from ST3 back ported. Shame that the load speed improvements are not though :(

I see your point but this is obviously a graphics guy (or girl) and probably not a programmer to the level that is require for a lot of the work on Firefox. Now if this new logo we…

I have owned several Macbook[Pros|Airs] over the years and consistently the biggest issue has been poor wifi. Either dropping or just being generally crappy performance wise compar…

Not on Windows :/

I thought the same. I have unlimited data so I knew I hadn't hit any limit but thought maybe something was up with my phone. Rebooted several times. Reset network settings. etc. an…

I noticed I had no data at around 23:30 last night and still no data at around 8:30 this morning. I was pretty surprised to see the outage last that long. Things appear to be worki…

FYI the blue theme is included as part of Update 2 for VS2012. It looks much nicer than the light and dark themes that 2012 has by default.

Out of all of the changes they made the all caps menu is probably the most stupid in the history of Visual Studio. Thank god for http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2012/06/14/…

Thanks I will check it out

Anyone know if there are any Windows builds available for GCC 4.8.x ? I normally use TDM/MinGW but they are lagging on 4.7.2. Also slightly off topic how is clang on Windows these …

Yeah. I am in zone 3 (15 minute walk from the office which is awesome) at £1200 a month for a very nice (large) one bed room flat. I could get a two bedroom with a little more spac…

To answer you questions... 1. Hardly ever. Then again I am not doing anything amazingly special or complicated. Just standard business apps. 2. That experience is worth double what…

That is a good starting salary. Make sure you stick to your guns when you move about. If you are staying in your area of expertise you should never take a pay cut. Ever.

Some places have very big bonus' with average salary. I have a few friends on 35-45% bonus on £35k a year as swdevs.

Yeah this is my experience as well. I was fortunate to start on quite a good salary and have managed to maintain that while changing jobs. London certainly isn't the place if you w…