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You ideally need both. A good GPS to tell you where you are, and a good map (and the sense and skill to read it) to tell you how to get somewhere else. My father once said a GPS is…

There were either walls on either side of the trench, or the planet was a barren rock to begin with.

Correction: FOBS put warheads in low earth polar orbit.

At least in the UK, Jack is a fairly common shortening of Jacqueline. The only way of determining a users gender is asking them directly, and if a person wishes to enter different …

Unless you're really, really bad at drinking, having a beer is not physically forcing others around you to drink. If you start smoking, then everyone else around you has to deal wi…

That example would surely be better as: something = myfunc(d['x']) if 'x' in d else None

The facebook app has its own camera app, if memory serves, that has some facebook specific features.

Pretty sure if all the miners stopped mining, bitcoin would be dead in the water, unless there is a secondary transaction mechanism that doesn't rely on miners.

HN hides the reply button on some comments that it deems might start flame wars (or similar). If you click the link link, that will let you reply from there.

How about when someone doesn't support treating animals well. Or values your apple more than your life? Or decides they have this million tonnes of toxic gunk and decides that inst…

#2: I happen to believe that people should be entitled to education, healthcare, safety and respect. #3: There are certainly bad jobs. Jobs where the employer does not pay, abuses …

Perhaps not if you buy your tickets last minute, but if you book 2-3 weeks in advance and pay more than ~£20 you're being robbed.

In a lot of cases (at least in the UK), it could fall under gross misconduct, for which your employer is allowed to terminate you on the spot. Of course, you can then take them to …

I presume by allocating memory yourself. It does mention that if you don't use the GC, it is removed from the final program.

Does it fade out songs when you pause them? If so, where can I download it and where can I donate to whoever wrote it?

iPhone only, no chip and pin, won't work with any cash machine in the UK, no apparent protection against people skimming random cards (I'm suddenly very suspicious of anyone puttin…

I like the idea, but you can't deduce name from email address, or at least not often enough to use it even to prefill the field in the form.

You're right. At a guess, as collisions appear to be perfectly elastic particles inside a clump are trying to move and instead of their shifting being dampened, it's causing the wh…

This is because each "atom" is of a considerable size to the larger clumps and imparts its excess momentum as angular momentum when it joins a clump. "Atoms" that are rotating arou…

I'm reimplementing the SQLite virtual machine in RPython, in the hopes that RPython's tracing JIT will speed up query execution. RPython (the toolkit behind PyPy) is cool because i…

And digital literacy (for the want of a better term) doesn't necessarily require knowing how to code.

Unless we discover gravity is bound to the speed of light too.

Yes. A million times yes. About a month ago now, my laptop's windows install decided to take a dive so I reinstalled windows and took it as an opportunity to dual boot ubuntu as we…

Functional Fusion Reacters! Strategic Functional Warheads! Functional Containment Disasters[1]! This is fun. [1] This is tongue in cheek.

I was thinking about this recently too and was wondering if one could perhaps set up a service where you would hire a set of ghost writers to rewrite and manually sanitise all of t…