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I guess you don't live in Scotland. We'd call 5 to 10 minutes of sun 2 or 3 times a week a heatwave.

As someone just about to see my twenties consigned to history here you go: * There is plenty of time to try a few things out and not feel like your doing anything wrong. I went fro…

Really? even Alexander Fleming before his accidental discovery of penicillin?

Rob covers the basics below but bear in mind you can take out insurance policies that pay out if you have to take long-term sick absence. Obviously these thing vary depending on ag…

I'm in the UK too and its all manager's discretion so it varies massively. One place I worked even let a guy save his allowance and work 4 days weeks from September to December. An…

Anywhere I've worked (UK) there's been a limit to the number of sick days you can take and restrictions on having to have a doctors note depending how long you were off. Currently …

Actually does he not admit he doesn't give a straightforward refusal because the idea of the coverage actually makes him think its worth it? rather than the consequences of the con…

I think Dropbox is valuable enough to become ubiquitous but one imagines they need to grow to a certain size before such a feature exactly is rolled into a version of one of the bi…

http://www.evanwondrasek.com/post/143027043/autopager-enable... I like it too but liked it more when I turned off the spam it adds to google results

It was a really interesting article but it draws a very general conclusion, that we can learn from the copy-cats "look how much they changed the business model" and listed a few ex…

Not just a well executed idea. Its another situation like StackOverflow where they can tackle chicken and egg situation others can't because of their exposure.

I'm sure its just the way it was written but it sounded a lot like the CEO was totally inappropriate, chucked a maddie and then backtracked - there's certainly a bit of ambiguity t…

Charlie Brooker is a pretty well known personality in the UK and he makes TV shows and writes columns in this kind of ranting hyperbolic style, in no way is it supposed to be taken…

I don't see the comparison with respect to dating, this is sanctions against a media company on the basis they gave unfavorable coverage. As far as the scale goes, this is what it …

I'm probably slightly playing devils advocate but I don't mean to be controversial for the sake of it, I just think this is interesting. TC is media/journalism and even if that's a…

Of course I see what you're saying, its not a question of whether it is or isn't good will - it's whether you're comfortable with a company exercising this kind of power against a …

I'm not sure that "perfectly entitled to perform" statement holds up. "Legally" entitled to perform, yes... "Morally" entitled to perform, hmmm. It does seem Twitter was willing to…

Sorry but the fact that twitter did this to Techcrunch must be masking people's views here, otherwise I can't understand the comparison with someone's diary. At the end of the day …

I think I'm a reasonably private person, bit of twitter no photo's + no facebook but I suspect I'd buy one of these and wear one once in a while. If use of these was as widespread …

When I read Joel's articles I know I enjoy them, I know they're interesting and I learn from them but also that I'm reading marketing for his products and brand - its win-win and I…

Glasgow, Scotland

"hey’ll quickly understand the value of their content, which, with rare exceptions like the Wall Street Journal, is something very much like zero" This is very much untrue, at leas…

http://www.cmcpr.co.uk/main/news.php?content=news_article&#3... The Institution of Engineering and Technology in the UK did a survey recently but they seemingly haven't published t…

In the UK we're just getting redirected to ciao.co.uk, here's a link for reference that shows a screenshot of the shopping pages they're seeing in the US - http://www.wired.com/epi…

That really depends what the individual shops are selling - I remember reading that almost all Amazon's revenue for CDs came down to a collection the same size as you'd find in a l…