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This feels very disingenuous - seems reasonably clear that the activity apple is concerned about is encouraging people to agree to meet strangers while committing in advance to bri…

Went out for a meal with my 77-year old father last week and as always he brings a magnifying glass and flashlight as the restaurant lighting is too dim and menus too small almost …

The UK equivalent has just announced it’s closing down for many of the reasons people comment here - https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2022/07/12/why-weve-decided-to-decom...

Are they being humiliated though? Feels like they get lots of press when announcing this kind of stuff which sits well with some target part of the electorate, then when the whole …

The Uk is making decent progress on this already. I live in a London suburb and there’s been a huge rollout of charging points already - within a few hundred meters of my flat ther…

> I'm somewhat indifferent on the issue; I reckon leaving will send a signal about reforming the EU ... Do I think that's worth the hassle of actually leaving? Pretty marginal. It'…

I've found the authors proposed approach at the end of the article to be a very useful one, even if you're not using TDD. A very regular piece of advice I give to new developers is…

Speaking personally, I voted lib dem in 2010 on the basis that they were a party broadly of the left, but distinct from the Labour party of the time in a number of positive ways. T…

When my grandparents died and we sold their house (in the uk) we had some builders in to tidy up some stuff and they discovered that in a big part of the house the earth was actual…

http://pleasingfungus.com/Manufactoria/ is another great game along the same lines

We've been using a similar tool ( https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith ) for a little while now and it's transformed our way of working - 50 page layouts x 5 responsive breakpoints v…

When I read the title I assumed it was an article about the unfairness of the education system, and the whole-life impact of an assessment carried out at an arbitrary point in your…

I used to worry about this too, but finally concluded that me not understanding it was in and of itself grounds for rejecting that review. 90% of the time well structured code (and…

My father was a surveyor in the city of London who worked on new office construction. He used to tell me how back in the days of nationalised phone service the first thing you did …