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I worked in AU around ten years ago. I don't remember salaries coming anywhere near the UK or US. I'd love to know if things are better now. I wouldn't say the UK market particular…

My advice would be start with stack and hpack, and remain with your editor or IDE of choice to start with. Learning any new language is difficult enough without having to also deal…

SnapBack in Safari used to be really handy for these sorts of pages, however I think that feature is gone now. From what I recall it would take you back to either the last typed UR…

Or 'open smb://...' from the terminal. open works with loads of protocols, not just files, for example 'open vnc://host' works out of the box.

I like the concept, but I often use my phone while charging (in bed or at work). In these instances I'd want a cable.

It's number sold, so it's not all pre-ordered, only those that shipped prior to today. When you pre-order, you are able to cancel up until it's shipped, and payment is not taken un…

I'm in London, and I'd say it's a small step backwards. The points of interest from Yelp appear to be consistently off by about 10 metres, and many points of interest are missing a…

I've heard more than one person refer to their Android tablet as a "fake iPad", like it's some sort of designer handbag.

I use "Spotlight Comments" on OS X for tagging files. Not sure if this is exactly what you want but works great for me.

Simple, back when the browser shake-up was going on (early 2000s) Opera was a paid browser, or a free browser with banner advertisements. It was also Windows only for a long time. …

I think it just comes down to differences between the OO approach vs the functional approach. In OO code I try to create types to represent every concept in my code. It seems overk…