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The timing isn't great for me to show anything, but I'm working on a UI framework that is exclusively vector graphics based. A few of the interesting things that I've come up with …

I met a programmer many years back who had previously been a physicist at CERN. I'd never have guessed but I think he picked up the programming bug there. If you think coding is yo…

Magnesium supplements did it for me. I needed to take them for an unrelated reason - eye tremors - and the first time I took them I was suddenly overcome with tiredness that night.…

Location: United Kingdom Remote: Required Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AWS, Spark, Java, Python, Scala, C/C++, SQL, REST APIs Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-f…

The findings seem a little off to me. My father was 26 when I was born and he was a leather cutter, so our family wasn't advantaged in any way. He was also a hopeless parent and pl…

A more practical use might be found in psychotherapy - recalling traumatic memories to identify the relevant neurons and then switching them off. That could be extremely useful for…

Totally agree with this. I'm reminded of when I interviewed with Amazon a few years back and it was clear that the questions were best suited to filtering down to the best graduate…

I'm in the UK and got the foam from simplyaeron.co.uk Have a search for "Aeron seat foam insert" if you're outside the UK and need an alternative option.

Agreed, I bought a used one 10 years ago and I'm sitting on it right now. Before that I was replacing foam office chairs every few years due to wear or degassing, but not so with t…

Here's a best guess based on my knowledge of actually having written a SVG rendering pipeline: The R and B colour switch in conjunction with the fact that this problem only occurs …

It's an interesting stat, but the chart doesn't speak as to the levels of experience of the traders. All beginners lose money, but it's entirely possible for an amateur to become a…

I work on a project that uses Free type for text and an improved version of AntiGrain for SVG rendering. The thought of using AGG for the font rendering has already crossed my mind…

I'd drink to that, XPath is incredibly useful and easily mastered. I'm also fond of XSD and XSLT myself. They can be obtuse at times, but have been indispensable in the use cases t…

2000 was 16 years ago, so it's important to understand that NZ is no longer the same country that you knew. I left in 2005 for the UK and can't imagine returning to NZ to live (las…