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Yes, Yoto! It’s not just for (kids) audiobooks, they have music cards too. And you can upload your own MP3s to their blank cards, or use it as a Bluetooth speaker.

Anybody know what they’re using? Presumably something with a small default max file size (assuming each result is not megabytes of XML)? Kafka?

At my work, we use an internal config store developed by another team for app config management, versioning and audit history. It’s a bit flaky so we’ve been looking to replace it …

The joke is that the .0 releases are actually beta quality.

I estimate it takes 20 mins to buy an ice cream in Japan. If it takes "half a day" that's (charitably) 12x (8-hour days), or (uncharitably) 24x (16-hour days). If I estimate a mont…

I believe the GP is talking about the trend of adverts for the exact product you just viewed/bought on the exact store following you around the Internet for a few days. e.g. you bo…

Most businesses now do support Amex -- there's been a major shift in the last few years.

Surely refresh is just kill for web-apps? The app's state is discarded, the code is reloaded and it re-requests the data. I don't see the differentiation Tim is implying.

You Americans, thinking you can control everything...

I recently tried to use Google Maps offline mode while abroad. I had a local SIM but limited coverage and limited data allowance. I also had created some saved maps via Google My M…

Quick shout out for Remember the Milk ( http://rememberthemilk.com ) which already does most of this and to which this looks quite similar.

My then-teenage brother once went through US immigration wearing a t-shirt branded with the initials of the then-popular brand, French Connection UK. Needless to say the US immigra…

Yahoo hosts all mail for BT Internet in the UK (the former national telecom, now one of top 3 ISPs)

Deconstruct will be an operator and this is how C# handles other operator overrides, e.g. equality, implicit/explicit type conversions, so this is in line with what developers woul…

The EU's negotiating position is exactly as weak as it thinks it is and that is why it has to be so hard on us (Britain). The only negotiating position weaker is Britain's.

As a Brit, I wholeheartedly agree with the entirity of your comment.

Because, like Google with Android, Microsoft enable this behaviour. They deserve to take the flak.

>> auditorial Don't you mean oral or aural?

Bollocks. Google Maps has just been in a continuous downward spiral on both desktop and iOS. The naysayers at the Apple Maps launch were extremely short sighted. It was always goin…

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You mean as a server-side developer...

iOS disables custom keyboards for password fields, which is a great idea in most scenarios. This is what prevents Agilebits building a 1Password keyboard extension.

> I also know of instances where Boeing produced safer designs and had to lobby the FAA to get them to accept them. One example is using twin engines on overwater flights, rather t…

Do you also want to wear a HANS device every time you drive? That's a big part of the reason drivers walk away from horrific crashes these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HANS_…