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I think this is the primary reason why some scripting languages end up in the education space (as a tool for learning), while others go mainstream and ubiquitous in the commercial …

Microsoft is dragging its users into the cloud. Something like ReactOS would let people live within the Microsoft environment without the baggage of the cloud. A personal computer …

I'm the other way around. I immediately lose trust in a host as soon as they start reading an ad - it shows that the production doesn't have a strict separation of content and sale…

Indeed. Always look at the URL before reading an article to understand the environment in which it was written. There's lots of websites out there with agendas - some more blatant …

Yeah. The skills aspect is important. That bespoke CMS/MVC product that you spent years working with... it's kind of worthless. Employers and recruiters have a list of requirements…

Yep. Either go with: a free market approach - facing the full force of globalisation and international politics, where one year you could be producing at a loss and another year a …

I see the Pi as more like a Spectrum. The Amiga of our era is, well, Apple. Yet Apple seems to have lost focus on desktop users.

It's the fear of missing out. All the social media services build their foundation on that addiction. Once you delete the accounts then the feeling slowly goes away and you get bac…

Every time I look at the BBC website, and find an article full of Twitter posts, a part of me dies. I want proper news like in the olden days of several years ago... not gossip fro…

Perhaps 'useless' is a strong word. It's good for getting a general idea but too many books hover around the 4 mark. Whereas with IMDb anything 6 and above is worth the risk.

Goodreads rating system is useless anyway. It's 'out of five' which means most people will give a good book a 4 or a 5 star - it's not like IMDb's more nuanced 'out of ten' rating.…

iPads are primarily high end content consumption devices - in my mind, that makes them a strange choice for education.

It's probably a good thing to have made it this far without hearing about these people.

Plus the profits for international technology platforms - especially as they mature - leave the local and national community, often ending up in a tax haven. People should be focus…

Regulation protects customers and workers. It ensure travellers don't get over charged compared to other forms of public transport, it makes sure the driver isn't a criminal, it en…