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>the kontanthjælp, "cash assistance" It's nice to see that your government is respectful towards those in need. In the UK, they call it "jobseeker's allowance" - like the type of a…

I think that there is more to the pool of information than the points you rightly outlined. Other key pieces of data are that Redis is designed to be extremely fast and that it has…

From what I can tell, OP appears to be correct in saying this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_(2013_video_game) >SimCity is ... a reboot of the SimCity series.

I'll do some testing this weekend by mounting an SSHFS as my swap partition and removing all but a 256MB RAM module then opening several dozen instances of FireFox. My calculations…

> Right, and taxes are the government robbing my family at gunpoint. To be fair, they will come after you with guns if you stop paying taxes.

There is a tradition of keeping discussions on-topic or at least insightful. Off-the-cuff humourous comments are not really suited for a site like this. There are myraid places whe…

Kindly stop making comments like these or go back to Reddit.

They mean that each function does relatively little work, so to render a given web page, the number of function calls (and therefore vtable lookups) is higher than in other browser…

In any industry dominated by a given gender, there is prejudice against the opposite gender. People fear what they do not know. http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/rss/1056170/New-c…

Off-topic: I love SparrowOS's (dead) comments - they're so off the cuff and random. Trying to make sense of them is like doing a really hard crossword puzzle. I have noticed one th…

I second this. I've been working out of hours a lot recently and find that my productivity is boosted dramatically when I am alone. Open plan offices need to go the way of the dino…

In my opinion, it would be better to create an OS abstraction layer for the application so that conditionals do not have to be added everywhere and people are able to use whatever …

> Unless you lie and tell them that it's something other than a sheet of A4 paper Which is exactly what has happened here on two counts - 1) it is not a world first - http://www.th…

If I sell someone a sheet of A4 paper for $100, have I not swindled them?

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that they have swindled over a million USD for a glue gun which you can assemble at home in 20 minutes. Sure, people can spend their mo…

> It is a sad day in a civilized, modern society when fundamental decisions on healthcare are made purely on finances, not quality of life. I don't understand how you were sold on …

It seems I was mistaken about there being much GNU code in Android. I'm complaining that the software which came with my hardware is not fit for purpose and does not make good use …

The cost of your developers using environments that they aren't adapted to is higher than the cost of dealing with inconsistencies introduced by the fact that they use Windows. It'…

I'm glad that ARM tablets are finally getting a decent operating system. Android is a pain for productivity - only one visible window, applications are killed in the background whe…

Technically Google is an advertising organisation which uses technology as a means.

> Emacs has a useful mode which highlights hexidecimal colors in CSS and SASS with the color represented by the text. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2937 > The big…

It'll be even more fun when argiculture and currency become distributed. I know that we already have bitcoin but imagine if it entered the mainstream. The powers that be would be r…

Diablo was a Windows game - it didn't run on MS-DOS.

> As far as I know only the US had sperm donors pay child support so far. I did not think that this kind of insanity was possible outside of a mental institution but apparently it …

This comment seems to make the assumption that something being illegal makes it wrong. You can buy soft and hard drugs in your local supermarket, just a very small subset of them. …