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To be clear, I don't think the library would actually be used to accomplish this task. Rather I suspect a tounge in cheek reaction to years of tedious spelling adjustment disguised…

As a programmer working in the UK I've never been asked to rewrite something into British English. I have been instructed to convert some old codebase to American spellings to "avo…

When I worked on a big c++ codebase I found them essential for both ci/cd systems and actively debugging an issue. The valgrind suite of tools like cachegrind are very useful for b…

I think it's better than slacks sidebar threaded reply. It also has better code blocks, less irritating pop up magic and no bots nagging you to fill in credentials all the time.

The only source for that claim as far as I can tell is conspiracy theorist Wayne Madsen's book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Madsen_(journalist) . So it's probably nonsense…

I think the thing I found most fascinating was the fact that the hives were small (~= 5000 bees) and had multiple queens, with one swarm having 9!

Do you have a source for the guardian editorial policy being pro the toppling of Gaddafi's regime in Libya? The Guardian is far from perfect but generally they were and are against…

This reminds me, a company I worked at used a bash script + zenity to automate the programming of devices using open-jtag. It worked pretty well and let the workers (skilled mostly…

The sad thing is, at least in the UK start ups are often headquartered in the US to make it easy to chase valley VCs.

I have to work with a legacy Perl codebase most weeks and I've been ignoring Perl 6 because upgrading our interpreter version is difficult for a bunch of reasons to boring to go in…