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> You could always use a calculator but the whole 'show your own working' catch meant you had to do it all manually. Not any more! You could often cheat (for equation rearrangement…

As pointed out below, they aren't equivalent. Compare the output of both when run against "foo bar WIBBLE"

Different behaviour. capitalize downcases the rest of the each sub-string, the original code did not.

Ah, yes, good point.

> For example, for YouTube alone, users upload over 400 hours of video every minute, which at one gigabyte per hour requires more than one petabyte (1M GB) of new storage every day…

Another anecdata, but on the other side of the coin: Virgin cable available right now, BT have put off upgrading my cabinet to FTTC for over 4 years now. Still, I'm getting ~8Mbps/…

> That is one of the better lines to ever be written in a legal letter. Along with: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013/08/arkell-v-pressdram.html

He's the 6th Brit in space, the 5th man. > https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28666-first-official-... " Despite what you may have heard, Peake is actually the sixth Brit in sp…

> In my books its a minus that you can not rewrite history. What happens if you accidentially add code where you dont own the copyright? Or an API Secret? Someone will write the ne…

It's a common topic posted by people looking for a big boost of karma. 1. Find the most popular topics (by points) in HN 2. Manually filter out 'event' topics (e.g. product release…

Sound could be an option. A TV license is required to watch broadcast television, so the number of channels they could be watching is finite. Even a muffled signal detected from a …

Is there a tool to output the DH params being used when attempting a TLS connection (not dumping them from a packet capture)? I know I can, but I'm hoping for something simpler tha…

Do not look into razor with remaining eye?

Exactly, it's why I held out on posting my single counter anecdotal story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1KD7DdnRb8 is the classic though.

TfL do this via Oyster card data but they have to plan for the bulk of people, not to create the fastest possible journey. There are usually much quicker ways to get in/out/through…

I was paying £1200/month for one child for 3 days/week (5 days/week was £1800/month). Glad that's over with now!

(UK here but...) 33 hours a week over 4 days (the max IBM will allow you to do in 4 days). Two shorter days from home with an early start and early finish so I can collect my daugh…

A way to give feedback to the poster on inconsequential details such as language/spelling/typos/grammar/etc that isn't displayed to anyone else would be useful.

"7 reasons why you don't understand click bait articles"

Vote cancellation is weird. I wonder if posts that have no genuine reason to be downvoted (like yours) get more votes if they add a comment to the effect "Not sure why this comment…

I'm part of a team within IBM that's been using Agile (Scrum) for the last 6 years. Originally it was just quite close to Waterfall dressed up as Agile but "they" (senior managemen…

> Also, what kind of corporate firewall lets you have access to Github but not tech blogs? IBM's (although it doesn't block all tech blogs, and who's to know why they've decided to…

Works for planning applications in the UK too. Building company wants to build a 12 storey block of apartments somewhere, but the locals will object to pretty much anything. Initia…

QI is riddled with inaccuracies:- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/18/stephen_frytard/