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You can still be enraged by things you know are not real. You can reason about your emotional response, but it's much harder to prevent an emotional response from happening in the …

The '$' being used in variable names I think originates from the word 'string', from when it was necessary to differentiate types of variable in the code. It never related to curre…

This is the perfect marriage of music and animation. I absolutely love it. Here's a video of her creating an animation, the technique is called KYBDslöjd or Live Type In, I think a…

I'd like to see Twitter unwind the recent requirement to have an account simply to read linked tweets and threads. This is such a horribly hostile requirement, Twitter should be as…

I did something along those lines as a proof of concept, seeded with links harvested from this site. http://kakapo.susa.net:8080/cfs/ A similar (and in my opinion more viable) appr…

Just don't use these hostile sites. Your presence on them just adds to their credibility, and the rewards they offer are scant at best.

I wrote a browser extension that could be used or adapted for this purpose. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/send-tab-url/ The description contains a link to the sour…

For more geeky insights into the time, I can recommend the book The ZX Spectrum ULA http://www.zxdesign.info/book/ The business side of things is incidental to the rich details of …

BBC Basic II does have ELSE, it just has to go on one line. IF A=4 THEN PRINT "FOUR" ELSE PRINT "NOT FOUR" Statements for the IF block and the ELSE block can be separated by ':'. I…

This looks absolutely stunning. The range of components is impressive, and the UI is really quite intuitive (I got a simple circuit running with measurements in a minute or so). Lo…

I think it's more a moment of realisation that a lot of time has passed, that things have changed to such an extent, and that it's hard to imagine something so large having so litt…

I wrote something similar to this a year ago (though shabby looking by comparison!): - http://kakapo.susa.net:8080/cfs/ I abandoned it when Google deprecated the WebRequest API, bu…

While I think the idea is good, this is really just a local business directory, of which there have been many. There's not much I could find that specifically addresses problems of…

Thanks, that's interesting. I suppose they specifically choose contacts with a high resistance.

Conductive rubber buttons absolutely do bounce (though I presume that was a joke).

He moved his head office to Singapore around the time he was pushing the UK to leave the EU. Manufacturing had already been moved offshore years before that - Malaysia as I recall,…

One of the requirements reads: "Ideally small and light enough to mount on patient bed and orientation independent functioning." While floor mounted operation is the mandatory requ…

Here is the very high level specification that the government has provided. It refers to various further specifications and regulations that the device must comply with in order to…

Perhaps we could get by with just a set of cheat sheets? I do think these would be useful, maybe even insightful. Unfortunately, it requires selflessness to submerge oneself in the…

I don't think your question is meaningful in light of why GCC exists at all. It was created to enable people to write free software and, along with binutils, it's hard to imagine a…

That line jarred with me too. It might be a metaphor that makes sense where commercial entities are competing for a winner takes all outcome, but it doesn't fit here. I recall when…

This doesn't sit well with me either. However, LinkedIn are trying to redefine a fundamental principle of the web, i.e. easy access to publicly available information, and they're d…