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GWT on AppEngine (which it has great integration for) has a ten second startup time when not loaded, and on the free tier they unload it when not in use, so that's not the greatest…

I've used them all but settled on Themeforest. Yes you can make your own, but why would you when you can choose something that's already well designed for a couple of dollars. Save…

I will only buy / recommend nexus phones. Knowing that the phone will be updated quickly and for a long time is worth a premium, rather than being a cash in strat for Google.

And if you miss a day don't forget to say "serenity now!"

Most countries will, if you declare that you are closing up shop and living in anther another country for more than a year, allow you to cease all involvement with that country (in…

I built a tool for visual interpretation of test results against requirements. It was pretty cool and I'm sure large engineering companies would use it if they knew they needed it.…

It's actually all just pointers to data, so when you change something it makes a new node and copies a few new pointers so the new tree is still correct. All of the old data and po…

I thought it was interesting that they named companies who'd settled. It would be interesting to make a site isettled.com where people could leak that a company had settled to trol…

So why isn't the repo up to date? I honestly don't know the answer as I don't deal with Linux repo's much

Actually 'I was just following orders' is not a defence. It's every soldiers obligation to question the moral standing of their orders. An illegal order, such as being told to bomb…

Maybe I'm just optimistic but she must be able to do something productive. Even if it's sewing toys together for children or making sure the elderly don't fall over. To me that's o…

Doing the checks on landing doesn't address security though (rather than just drugs), so the airport checks are definitely pointless from that point of view. It's to show the publi…

The state gets addicted to the revenue, people spend more time looking at their speedometers instead of the road, and the limits keep going down (instead of becoming more realistic…

Definitely. If it were a dating game, I'd almost go with 'I don't have an employer, I'm really passionate about software though' and leave it there. girls.filter( girl => !girl.isG…

So true, it's the abuses of these laws that really catch the general public's attention, until that happens it's all academic. And this is a real life example that really strikes h…

If he was a part of 'overly broad legislation' that 'could be used inappropriately but shouldn't be', then he's an idiot, or naive. Put specific cases in which the law is applicabl…

Agreed, for enterprises (who also have the $$) the cloud is dead. Giving your data to a third party is now the same as waving it around it public, thanks to the US government. I ha…

The lazer tag could be incredibly awesome, since you can actually see all the lazers coming at you, and with none of the range and safety issues that come with paintball. You could…

It must be, especially considering the data is cached in many different countries with varying degrees of oversight.

Or he's just maximising himself in the hire-by-keyword game that inefficient managers/recruiters use.

Ten years experience and programmed a critical feature of a large program? I'd say you're a senior. I don't know the culture of your company, but one thing to consider is just tell…

I've definitely felt the pain of Play JSON serialization, it's infuriating. There's a macro that will take an entire object, generate the converter and do the conversion in one lin…

Or if your information happens to be valuable (bitcoins, passwords, stock tips, blackmail material) and can be sold without it being traced back to an analyst in any of the facilit…

"There comes a point that it is simply better to place your sales through Amazon and ebay, and circulate your news and promotions exclusively through Facebook and Twitter, as you k…

Surely the true engineers would take all of that free time and build amazing things, free from any worry about success or failure. I know I'd love to have some amazing AI or roboti…