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The cell phone market has matured, the rate of innovation has slowed and the need to update your phone at every release has subsided. Apple has recognised this, they have better lo…

I studied physics, with intention of becoming a developer (which I did). I didn't have much appetite for a CS course and felt the physics would give me a broader set of skills.

> Most full stack developers have breadth but not depth. I have to disagree with this, its a generalisation at best. In my experience the "full stack" developers have had a much de…

Another long time vim user, I switched to emacs+evil then to spacemacs back to vim back to emacs+evil. Spacemacs was good but I started to feel bogged down, as I do with big ide's …

There is a lot of Tory bashing going on here but this policy runs deeper, Labour tried to put through similar legislation. The coalition dropped it but is back. Each Home Secretary…

I was the same, yet I continued to invest in the Amiga in the vain hope that it would come back from the brink, in hindsight I should have jumped ship then too, I stuck with the Am…

I can certainly agree with that, I invested far too much time and money in the Amiga long after it was relevant. But I still have a fondness for the machine, it was elegant in a wa…

An interesting article and I am guilty of copy and paste errors myself. But the bias towards the last line may be because those mistakes are tested less then other parts i.e. in an…

I work for a small company, not a startup (I've been here 9 years), about 20 people. Yesterday we launched a website, today we got Pizza. I was happy. It cost the company £100 but …

Very useful tool, partially useful is being able to start a Boris shell mid script: $boris = new \Boris\Boris('myapp> '); $boris->setLocal(array('appContext' => $appContext)); $bor…