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It's fascinating that modern gang signs might be considered a recent development although they have probably been always with us.

I like this idea although I use vinyl stickers on my MacBook and then, before needing to sell it, I peel them off again. They leave very little residue which I clean with some isop…

I totally get all of these points and understand them, and they're really why I do like Go. Implicit interfaces, for example, means you don't need to change code for something to i…

The term object-oriented has often been misinterpreted. Alan Kay explained that "[the term object-oriented] was a bad choice because it under-emphasized the more important idea of …

We really do have to radically re-think our cities but the biggest issues aren't going to be practical but emotional. In London parents drive their children around in 4x4s, knowing…

Mentioned a couple of times but it's still raw that Inbox has been canned too. Also the Googlers I know use it and Gmail is some ways back although it has been improved. It's been …

As they say 'convenient is better than better' and I've long looked for a company like Netflix who will allow me to give them money and they will let me watch what I want.

I saw Netflix's chief product officer Neil Hunt say a while ago Netflix would "never" offer downloads, but I have to say I'm really pleased with this. Getting the train through spo…

I totally agree. One of the reasons I've started using an Onion Omega is because of this reason. IoT is pointless if you can't connect to the I easily, IMHO.

I suppose the interesting point is more that it's being marketed as not really operated by humans as a positive when in many instance in our modern world the reverse is true. And a…

We do seem to be building in a lot of risk to our infrastructure at the moment from network connections to software delivery and introducing many single points of failure. It's goo…

It is an inherent issue with the industry, demonstrated by the strategy of adding more people to a project and expecting productivity to increase on a linear scale. Although, intui…

What did we learn today about security through obscurity, children? ;)

I would definitely visit a "secret Russian space base"! Especially if it was inside a mountain! ;)

Really like this! Merging text with a png to render to the terminal could be the future of cowsay! ;)

Great work and think it goes to show we should all be aware of the effects of what we put out into the world. You've just made it a slightly better place to be! :)

There might be a certain amount of 'flag-planting' going on too. Especially with a new social network, people can register, grab their favourite username, then ignore the network f…