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Check out api.tfl.gov.uk which should have everything you need for London in a more structured format.

Also a great teaching language, as used at London Imperial College Electrical and Electronic Engineering dept. in the early 00s. Gave you lots of power but not too much, and enough…

The problem is people buying cheap devices that skirt or fake existing battery quality regulations. There would surely be a higher number of people making that kind of purchase if …

Also you can mostly still click straight though to the image file itself, a feature which I believe Google removed at the request of site owners.

There are plenty of tests available since then, we picked some up recently. This was a temporary blip, if anything. You can see the testing rate on the gov dashboard [0] and it has…

Sunshine is the other big variable. Most fruit will only get sweet during ripening if it's receiving enough sunlight. This is why red grapes are seldom grown in northern latitudes …

Article is from 2015. Should this be added to the title?

It’s not in particularly common usage anymore though, if at all.

I'm guessing they don't do this voluntarily because they've seen how the music industry had its revenues eroded by Spotify/iTunes (where mostly the user can pick one and get pretty…

Was hoping someone would say this. Times by 8 divide by 5 is super easy. And easy to reverse when you’re doing km to miles.

A lovely tribute - and please take this as constructive criticism nitpick - but it would be even better if the Readme was in markdown so that GitHub would render it correctly on mo…

Our build system very much needs to be on-premises for the foreseeable future.

Yes I got that impression. Azure DevOps wouldn’t be the right solution for us unfortunately.

It’s nice to see the .NET Core team hitting on the same solution as we are heading for internally for our multi-repo builds - the “dependency flow” with Maestro sounds very similar…

For the TfL API, have a look at https://api.tfl.gov.uk/ . You can also get GeoJSON line strings of the bus stops (or other modes of transport!) if you’re interested.

6 hours

Could be! It’s an emotional moment and not a particularly nice place to wake up. But there’s definitely something at the back of your mind telling you something fairly awful happen…

Even if you don’t wake up during surgery, it feels like there’s an imprint of the trauma. I had a very long operation and by the time I came round I was in pieces emotionally, with…

JetBrains Rider is a significant productivity upgrade to Visual Studio, especially when working with a large solution.

You can learn to type very quickly on a touchscreen keyboard and work within and be helped by the autocorrect. If you’re typing a couple of sentences why does it even matter that y…

To get round the paywall for WSJ, click the “web” link next to the article link above, then the first result.

They admitted to making a trade-off that would throttle performance with older batteries so that the phone wouldn't shut down when the CPU did not receive enough power. Turns out t…

What's going on with the salary disparity between US ($100k) and UK ($50k)?

This is more of the same inglorious British Government tradition of being willing to sell anything to anyone, provided they've got the cash.