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My wife read this exact article from 2013, purchased a 'Finnish Baby Box' from a private company that makes and exports them from Finland, and our baby slept in it for his first se…

There are free to access castle ruins and buildings of a similar age and much older all over the UK, they're hardly in short supply. Maybe you didn't intend it but this comes acros…

31 years native. That's the first time I've ever seen someone write 27:00...

It's an opinion piece by a single journalist.

Because in practice it usually makes little difference. Ground rents are often as little as £10 a year.

https://www.gov.uk/marriage-allowance

I turned 30 this year, born 1987, and I had no idea that I missed out on this kind of education by so few years. I remember there were a couple of BBC Micros sat getting dusty in t…

TIL: There are fried chicken shop clouds over London.

Try that at 3am and see if the cab driver cares.

Pre-uber I'd take the night bus, as I'm not paying £50 or £60 for a black cab from town to my home. Post uber that same journey is now less than £25 and well worth paying for to av…

1) I've never had to use ExpandableListView. ListView I use all the time. 2) Most often, BaseAdapter 3) Both options. XML if I had to pick.

That picture is of Oxford Circus, one of the busiest intersections in the UK. There are very few crossings similar to that one here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Circus

The problems are greatly exaggerated. I imagine there's little difference to the "fragmentation" problems developing for Windows.

IDEA-57233 Editor font antialising/appearance problems on Linux http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-57233

I find Three has superb coverage throughout London. Elsewhere it's not so good.

He tours the world giving talks and speeches.

Shocking (yet unsurprising) that almost everything I click on is an eldery pedestrian or cyclist, or a motorcyclist.

TWENTY TWO GCSEs? Christ... You didn't go to a comprehensive!

Are OS updates really that important for most consumers? I have a Desire running Froyo. I don't think I've really missed out on a huge amount by not getting Gingerbread.

If your OS version isn't supported, you can't see it in the market or download it.

You have no idea what you're talking about

> a school that teaches where to find the font choices in Word as part of an English class That's taught in an IT lesson, not English!

I have the same experience (no complaints or problems) using it at home on my Ubuntu machine, also with the OpenJDK. When I tried it recently on my Windows 7 machine at work the au…

24 yo from London here. That language is completely standard to me. I've been saying awesome with a straight face for as long as I can remember. I'm not sure it's the best way to h…