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This is a huge achievement - props to the Gradle maintainers for delivering so much with such careful adherence to backcompat! I’ve had two enableFeaturePreview lines in my repos f…

We require all teams to use semver and usually define the Conjure API in the same repo as the server that implements it (so they are versioned together). Most of the time teams wan…

It's definitely not as elegant as Scala or Haskell, but I think their justification is very reasonable. The current implementation is maximally compatible with existing usages of t…

I usually want to keep an eye on my Selenium tests so I can debug them if they get stuck. When I don't have enough space to leave the selenium VNC window open, I put it underneath …

Nicely comprehensive blog post, Zorium looks like it is the result of a lot of hard work! Since this looks like a serious library (rather than a personal dev exercise), I'm curious…

There are a few interesting answers in the 'Startup Traction' topic on Quora [1]. Lots of them mention having a great product that solves a real problem, having a content-rich blog…

Someone got a Linux image that could run `ls` down to 6.12MB by intercepting file accesses and deleting anything unused... See "How I shrunk a Docker image by 98.8%" ( https://news…

There's a gem right at the end from 1878: "Oldest known publication of a recording of recognizable phrases in the English language (“Brown University”; “How do you do?”)"

I was expecting the patent [1] to describe some kind of Amazon Echo, stuffed into a teddy bear with responses and a personality. Instead, it seems to turn the toy into a glorified …

I tried the name `~SnapSwap` to actually get into this app. (I found this from a 'Popular Gateways' page [1].) The blank input field isn't a super friendly way to show people your …

This is familiar to programmers who are used to pointers or references. (Java's `final` does the same thing). To prevent changes to an object's properties, you could use `Object.fr…

A women-in-business non-profit found that Fortune 500 companies with most women board members consistently outperformed those with fewest [1]. Market forces should therefore cause …

I would hesitate to make primary schools kids learn 'coding' because personally, I find the underlying problem solving more inspiring than learning syntax. FIRST Lego League [1] of…

Otto Lindberg did exactly this to for a whole town in the 1930s! Amazingly, the fake town (called 'Agloe') "became real — and then, strangely, undid itself and became a fantasy aga…

I bet there would be a psychological impact. People would curtail their usage and frantically switch antennas on and off, resulting in an overall poor experience. Perhaps having a …

I often have to manually disconnect from a slow wifi connection and switch to 4G. Project Fi doing it automatically looks great! Those tariffs seem pretty steep though - I'm gettin…

Will this be the first spacecraft mounted laser weapon? > "we plan to install a full-scale version on the ISS, incorporating a three-meter telescope and a laser with 10,000 fibers,…

Having used both, I personally prefer Strava. I've found it far better at motivating me to run. You can compare your performance against other runners along pre-defined segments (e…

From http://www.apple.com/uk/macbook/specs/ Supported scaled resolutions: - 1440x900 - 1280x800 - 1024x640 I think the screen will probably be ok.

Android compatibility looks feasible since the kit will be open source [1]. That should open up the ResearchKit demographic quite a bit! [1]: https://developer.apple.com/researchki…