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I don't tend to have a headache afterwards, but your description matches up to my experience of coming around after fainting. I tend to feel fuzzy and dreamlike and it takes a few …

I use DataGrip with PostgreSQL and am generally happy with it.

For what it's worth, there was a stock split in 2003 [1], so the same stock would be $50 today. 1: http://www.microsoft.com/investor/InvestorServices/FAQ/defau...

The increase in supply is not caused by the final net position. It's in what you see when you look at the market. Suppose there are 100k shares issued. Some traders decide to naked…

Surely when you roll out new wireless, you should roll out the fastest stable technology? Wouldn't Japan be held back to some extent by wireless infrastructure that hasn't yet been…

This reminds me of the article a few years ago that indicated that Warren Buffett had a lower effective tax rate than his secretary, even though he made heaps more. http://www.time…

There are banks that do this, but provide you with the full alphabet, as well as the numbers. The other banks that I've come across with this style also don't have a maximum passwo…

That is kind of true - ING do call it a PIN. The thing is that all I can do with the PIN is to log on to their online banking site. That makes it a password in my opinion. If I wan…

Many of Charles Dickens' works were written in this way. They were published in periodicals and magazines, and he would normally be writing them as they were being published, rathe…

I'd guess the way the Paul Chambers incident was dealt with was as harsh as it is because the underwear bomber story happened about three weeks before his tweet. No one in the chai…

My guess was that it was some kind of count of the number of messages passed between the different chrome processes - but it probably grows way too fast for that to be the case. I …

If agile means "iterative and incremental projects", it is just a new name for what has long been put forward as a good way to develop software. In 1996, the Jolt award winning boo…

I still believe that the best definition of what agile is is to be found in the agile manifesto: http://www.agilemanifesto.org/

If you do it in the database, you don't have to shunt all the values across the wire from the database server. If the middle tier is on a different machine, this can make a signifi…

Using this as the policy at your company does mean that you probably need to be marketing your company as a great place to work. If no one knows why your company would be a great p…

I know someone who drives a Ferrari and really enjoys it - and he's nearly 50. You've got to be pretty old before you're too old to enjoy driving a nice car.

In Europe, Microsoft will not be selling any version of Windows 7 that includes IE. See http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2009...

From the article: Or you can have one on earth, if you want, acting as an additional node in the distributed archive. There are still two disks available from this prototype run. C…

For what it's worth, MiTek Australia, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, recently acquired a software company: http://www.buildsoft.com.au/Content_Common/pg-Announcements-...

As far as I can tell, the problem here is to some degree one of conflicting generalisations. The article is trying to explore a different space to the space for which Arc was desig…

BSc Computer Science from University of Cape Town 1997