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I would prefer the money to go to http://www.wikinfo.org at https://secure.ibiblio.org/gift/ because: * Original Research - Wikipedia does not allow any. Wikinfo's solution: Allow …

They state that they have 47 staff. 22 tech is fair enough as you say there is an operational overhead. However I don't see why they are paying for programming work required when t…

I think you need a link there to http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ : thought you just meant it wasn't readable! Readability is great: before that I was just copy & past…

I predict a rise in crossbow sales in the near future

A lesson on logic from somebody who equates "It's often the foolhardy and the ignorant that tackle problems that are supposedly impossible. And sometimes end up succeeding" to "It …

It seems to me that data going over a publicly accessible network that is designed to let that data go by whatever route is necessary has been routed over a part of that network. H…

That just shows an empty white box for me (FF 3.6). The right arrow button to look at the different links has poor discoverability. The first link is shown twice on the main page, …

unfortunately not on python 2.4, which is the version we have on our production servers (2 yr old Linux)

Is there much benefit to fact = lambda n: _if (n over def fact(n): if (n 1 line vs 5 lines doesn't seem like an advantage to me when it takes pretty much the same amount of time to…

"available to buy in over 30 countries" ... leads to ... "The page you asked for does not exist You may have followed an out-dated link, or there may be an error in our service. We…

Why just restrict the search to buy-now items? In my experience more of the esoteric stuff seems to go on straight auctions and buy-now is used mainly by commerical retailers.

The problem with teaching CS like that is that there is a huge disconnect when joining the workforce. Most employers expect a CS graduate to understand version control, bug trackin…

Glad that he bothered to follow up but disappointingly short on the details. When I read the original I thought it was all good, apart from: 1. > There are plenty of people out the…

All the POS card readers that I've seen (UK maybe it's different in US?) don't display insert card until the cashier has finished scanning the items and pressed total. On the occas…

One queue adds an overhead for the time it takes for the person at the front of the queue to notice a cashier is free and walk to that cashier. I have watched this system in action…

One queue is fairest. From your example if there is only one server then there is no difference between one queue/one queue per server.

Maybe the web designer of http://www.nissenbaums.com/ would be interested in the re-use of their images.

At on-screen viewing sizes of web-shared photos (currently <1MP) you are going to struggle to see the better image quality that an SLR can provide. With prints of 10x8" or larger y…

Yes I was thinking the world ended for Lisa in 1984 when Steve's skunk works project came to fruition.

The eye hurting background doesn't help

If people don't have rent money they don't have the time to work on open source as they are too busy working (i.e. in a short-term job unrelated to developing software). So the adv…

Nice advice for the original target audience of people with lots of spare time who have already sorted out where the rent money is coming from. For the other 90%+ of us not so rele…

rummikub is quite fun. It's Rummy based (runs and sets) and re-arranging numbers and looking for patterns is key. No maths involved though.