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VSCode with the platformIO plugin is pretty good

If you read his old blog posts from about 10 years ago he didn't reiterate anything. If you then read the comments on those posts you'll understand why he now does!

why add the complexity of bcd when you can just put in it units (e.g. cents) where there's no decimal point?

'The figures do not specify how people died, or whether the death was related to the care they were expecting from the NHS. The data also does not contain ages or medical condition…

House prices in london have always been expensive. That 200k house in Earls Court adjusted for inflation would be £410k now. But back in 1990 interest rates were a whopping 14% - t…

It's not an affiliate link. Affiliate links have "?tag=". The "?ref"= is for internal tracking within Amazon.

It can simplify templates; allowing you to treat free functions and class methods the same way.

sounds very expensive, surely there must be a more efficient way?

How do you has words so that polynomial hashes to the same value as pollinomial?

The introduction of the smartphone has changed children for the worse. The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders …

Can someone explain how this link has made it to number one on the front page, when it seems from the comments that no one understands what the page is saying?

Things that didn't happen, this.

I think this comes with lots of difficulties. For example should you be evicted from your family farm that you've worked on your whole life when your 80 year old mother dies just b…

It's probably not banned because someone who could take over a plane with a lithium battery could take over a plane without a lithium battery.

I haven't tried the api yet, but the example on the home page says that "Lois" is a female name - when in fact, in the 1930s it was quite a popular male name with about 70 boys bor…

The technical problems have now been fixed

This has been fixed!

Thanks for the feedback, the lack of Bort is due to (for privacy reasons) not having any names in the database for which fewer than 5 children have been given that name in any one …

We were finding it hard to come up with a name for our soon to be born daughter so I decided to make an app to help us find one. Let me know what you think! www.namemeababy.com

For software developers, the ultimate game has to be roborally http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18/roborally You play cards to program your robot and drive it round a course.

The reason I use google reader is because it is best supported by iphone apps for offline reading. Does anyone know of any iphone apps that will allow me to read my rss feeds while…

Not even a demo or a video, why is this better than any of the many free Google Reader replacements?

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