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I used to code ColdFusion, it was great! Really easy to understand and easy to build custom web sites. I saw it more as a framework than a launguage and it tried to push what a fra…

One of the many reasons we moved our young children from the UK to Scandinavia was to improve their childhood by reducing hazards & risks whilst also being in an environment that w…

Rate-limiting is a real problem for it, and one reason it might not be feasible as a product as some APIs still rate-limit based on IP, so for those there would have to be some ran…

I had a need for an API middleman, recording and replaying API messages between an application and provider APIs, without setting up a local proxy. So I decided to built something …

In the UK the kitchen was a larger, family space until after WW1, when they started building more apartments in London. The art deco 1920s/30s vision of the kitchen was that is was…

The worrying possibility is the other way round: an impressionable mind that can be shaped into action by some of the more extreme ideologies of the world.

This not a theoretical argument. Trump regularly makes stuff up on the fly when there are multiple records proving the opposite. The White House has to make up 'alternate facts' on…

I don’t think I can downvote replies to my own comment on HN. But I’ll take the internet crown anyway, thank you! Edit: just tried it, I can downvote your original comment but not …

There’s nothing to be gained here so I’ll apply the principle of conservation of energy and move on. When two arseholes blow hard all you get is a smelly room.

You come across as somebody who's trying to fallaciously prove how smart they are, so can dismiss any argument you think isn't worthy of your esteemed intellect. It's not a good lo…

It's partially related to the work needed to obtain them. There's very little edible meat in each one and the processes to obtain that seem to be largely manual.

It might be worth considering in this discussion that there are different levels of what we refer to as an environment and levels of cause & effect. Variations in local climate, po…

Yes, but it is much, much, much faster now than any previous time. Plus we have the knowledge of its effects upon us directly and the ecosystem that we rely on to survive, combined…

> Climate change are now a multi-billion dollar industry ... They have zero interest in changing opinion or even questioning if this is all correct. I don't understand this argumen…

A lot of people are going to read only the headline and shout "MIT says global warming isn't true" into their science denial bubbles! From my reading of this, the study does not sa…

That text is all over the place. They go from not hiring someone because they play basketball, to having wrestling as a meditation tool. I'm not going to make assumptions about the…

The MP who said this, Nicky Morgan, has a less than stellar reputation. Sounds like the comment was purely a case of throwing out a buzzword as a terrible answer to a good question…

I agree that this isn't common and the use of a memified word was not useful. I think the mental image of "brogrammers" is often literally coding jocks, which is inaccurate. It is …

I'm no expert and I've mostly been in Europe with marginal time in the US, so I don't know the frequency of occurrence. I think what's slightly more common is homogenous teams with…

I think the point is that companies shouldn't be frat houses full of brogrammers. If you want to hang out with your friends and wrestle to decide coding patterns, then that's all w…

Ah, but in Norway slices of bread must be eaten individually. So if you did this you'd need to peel them apart, which ends up with one slice having more of the topping than the oth…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici... Sort the table by Renewables as a percentage of generation. There are countries with flourishing economies running w…

> All lifeforms are selfish. This is such a crude, reductionist view that falls very short of reality. You know, it might just be you and minority that think this way. Luckily real…

Your comment lacks value for at least 3 reasons: 1. A lot of the discussion at the moment is about action within the USA, Europe, Brazil and China. These are not poor countries. Br…