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Try reading just the Grand Inquisitor chapter and see what you think.

There are almost constant rule changes around the tackle laws, the breakdown and de-powering the scrum to reduce the amount of potential head trauma, but the professional era it's …

I've not heard it before. I was an Application"s" DBA for several years, but this was specifically for Oracle's ERP suite of business applications. The role mixed straight DBA resp…

https://www.tssa.org.uk/en/Your-union/your-workplace/employm...

It's the 4 engines which gives airlines A380/747 fuel cost problems. Both fulfil relatively niche markets and are gradually being displaced by the more-efficient and flexible twin-…

Same. Very interesting reading events as described in the theguardian.com and then its foxnews.com equivalent.

Holidays are a lot more relaxing and refreshing without the constant thought you're wasting money. Although, this does take a while to sink in.

The US ExIm bank also provides billions in either direct loans or loan guarantees to foreign companies; this keeps the export market artificially high and effectively subsidises no…

This is implemented over Ku-band by Row44... http://new.row44.com/faq/

Define funny

I'm flying to SF the next day for Startup School.. could be all HN'd out by the end of the weekend..anyone else going?

Something I've wondered, presumably for several hundred years, Ptolemy's observations could be thought of as the standard model, and consistently day after day, year after year, th…

Do your accounts, chase invoices, quarterly returns etc.. pay her a salary reduces corp. tax liability and enfranchises her into your startup.. it's working out for us both.. so fa…

I remember the "Wow!", when I discovered the AUTO command!

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." - Dostoyevsky.

"Patrick founded Auctomatic and joined Y Combinator as a Winter 2007 company. Its path would not last long. At the age of 19 and ten months after incorporating, the company was bou…

Never realised Larry Wall was a Young Ones fan.

Thanks for the notice, will watch that tonight. Sounds like an example of mediocre journalism picking up on well worn themes: brilliant outcast genius, untimely death and potential…

I watched that sketch with my wife and in-laws when I first started working from home... I think my silence was deafening

I started on the training for the 2008 race, however after 2 sessions, the Global Challenge business folded due to lack of a headline sponsor (it had previously been BT). In your t…

"I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted” - George Best

...funny, I kept on thinking of the line in WarGames when WOPR says the only way to win is not to play.

I went on a rugby tour there from UK around the time of the last foot 'n mouth outbreak... australian immigration were very concerned of the mud on our team's rugby boots so they c…

I think it's called a "Berliner"....