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It will end up where the service provider takes it. Don't imagine that GitHub cares about lowering barriers to entry as an end in itself. It does this as a means to pursue GitHub's…

That is a very simplistic, and incorrect, response to the problem. GitHub provides computing resources, for free, to attract users. This is just one of the challenges of that busin…

A change to GMT all year round would be most welcome here in the U.K.

Yes, I'm not sure why transpiling will ever go away. Not sure either why it would be limited to specifications.

This was my first thought after reading it. I've used gitlab.com, also locally, and it is ok. Presumably people will want to stick with github due to popularity though.

In my experience the phrase has the meaning that twic described.

It's even more interesting than you think. The Conservative Party do much better under Scotland's system of proportional representation than in Westminster. Compare these results: …

Not much. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#PHP_6_and_Unicode

In this case, yes. It was definitely unnecessary to remind me of the author's name on each page.

I use LibreOffice in an environment where almost every other user uses Microsoft Office tools. I've had difficulty with some documents in the docx format. Most of the documents wil…

"They left work and played volleyball and worked on their tuner car and went to family events and so on. They learned exactly what was specifically necessary for their job today an…

In my experience lots of commented code stays around while version control is either underused or unused.

The "Where is Variance not a good fit?" section is useful. I'm not just saying that as a long time victim/critic of pie charts.

In the case of elderly users I don't think that many of them could even identify the browser that they use without prompting from others.

The telephone is my main gripe at the moment. My line manager likes to conduct all his business over the phone. One of my colleagues likes to project her voice across the entire of…

Equally there are philosophy professors who don't appreciate it. One class that I was a member of was warned that our professor had not seen The Matrix and, given the number of ess…