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You've written a lot here, and I don't have much time. My apologies, I will be terse: 1) I prefer text too and ongoing communication requires lots of this. 2) You should be able to…

Back in 2006 I read that people don't understand the intended tone in emails. I'm assuming it applies to most text based communication, and is one of the reasons I have devalued em…

I would have thought a single multi-column index would have been more appropriate. Did you consider these? They have been in PostgreSQL since 9.2 https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.…

That reference about DHL being German doesn't sit nicely with me. Germany is much more socialist than the USA.

To emphasise this point, he believes that consciousness is provided by a non-physical unmeasurable substance that has some kind of complex structure, in order to contain the comple…

There has to be a ceiling to how much demand can be induced.

There are 2 Aldi's near me here in the UK. One in a wealthier area and one in a poorer area. They do seem to alter the store somewhat to match what they sell. The Aldi in the wealt…

I think the two labels are "absolute poverty" and "relative poverty"

What fun: I have recently been reading The Hobbit with my 6 year old son Benjamin stop he has become engrossed in the book somewhat and then just hearing about the Adventures of Bi…

I just today listened to the BBC Bottom Line Special [1] on this, and their guests, one who used to run Jaguar, and an expert on VW, don't buy it. Their argument is that the engine…

One thing I've noticed since using an e-reader that I've not heard anyone else mention, is that I've become far less happy with the quality of print and the quality of the paper in…

I used one in the Arts Tower of Sheffield University where I studied. It was fun, but felt slow. There were also 2 (3?) conventional elevators that seemed like the best bet when do…

I think you can generalise one more step up. Markets that look horribly inefficient may well not be.

Does anyone know of a conference that takes a wider view of the job of programming? It has always felt to me like the focus is all about our tools, because tools can look cool, but…

Open access science books http://www.intechopen.com/books

Not just PHP. Here's an advert for a django junior developer in London for £25k. http://www.indeed.co.uk/cmp/Titan-Merchandise/jobs/Junior-We...

I stopped with the statistics element of my math degree as soon as I could because of the disgust I had for the p-value decision thresholds.

My first reaction to this was "MySpace? - some kind of stargazing based website?" before moments later: "Wow! - I completely forgot what Myspace was!"

HMRC is not going to know if someone travelling from France to the UK was charged the wrong VAT rate, and if they did, they wouldn't start issuing fines. They are very kind to our …

No. There is nothing you can do. There is nothing you can say. Choose a battle you can win.

http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Random%20Number%20Generator

I'm doing work with a drug testing company, that generates a lot of stuff you wouldn't want taken out of context. This kind of stuff: "How's the meth goin?" - "Oh great. We're gett…

Could there be a browser plugin to like and share everything as you wander through the web? That would be an interesting way to demonstrate tracking technologies.

Stay in the job, focus on your family life for the next 12 months. At some point during that time you'll know exactly what you want to do, and you wont need to ask advice here.

Now this may be old, but it had something called "pods" which I think are servers. And you have to run one, or register with one. Once done it would store all the data. There didn'…