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I am quite excited to hear someone having almost identical views as I do, also being a software engineer (almost) in my mid 30s. As you also indicated I genuinely struggle to find …

And me of Pharrell Williams' Happy - 24 hours version: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsH19NHPTD44m-5CCyx5j...

You need to pass a color-blindness test to get a driving license in my home country and I can't tell you how much I struggled with it 15 years ago. The reason is exactly this -- I …

I don't have any scientific proof but only a personal observation on this. This is the exact reason why I stopped using Apple CarPlay on my car but instead relying on (iDrive) inte…

I experienced a terrifying event the other day. While driving on a motorway almost as fast as the speed limit, panoramic sunroof of my BMW spontaneously exploded with a huge noise.…

Speed limits in towns in the UK are either 20mph or 30mph, which is 30 km/h to 50 km/h. So speed limits look very similar to me. The weather is an interesting point though, UK does…

I read The Economist. Reasons and benefits I have seen so far are: 1. It's weekly. "World this week" section is more than enough to have a summary of what has happened throughout t…

This looked really exciting at first and I signed-up immediately, hoping to stop thinking about "what I should cook tonight?". However after seeing an Oreo milkshake suggestion for…

That's exactly what I was looking for - create lists by just dragging including videos. Safari's reading list is cool but I really don't like Safari. Evernote's cool but way too co…

Ironically Gul was the person to sign a legislation a few weeks ago to enable the shutdown of a website in just a matter of few hours (in less than 4 hours to be precise). He eithe…

Well there are some situations where you can't just choose between 2 options and hope everything will go on track once you make that choice. Otherwise the history will keep repeati…

Apparently 8 or 9 of the trending topics are about the ban in Turkey too: http://imgur.com/9Etk4fd

Irony: Twitter ban being spread to the world via Twitter itself. A perfect example of how powerful the internet is despite of the governments.

Considering the fact that I'm seeing #TwitterisblockedinTurkey as a worldwide trend despite of the ban I would say they are far from being able to take away the freedom at all. The…