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I found the intense focus music (and the "white noise"/hissing in it) to be really, really grating and kinda put me on-edge while listening. I also found the repetitiveness/predict…

I have been doing something similar for a couple of years. My printer can scan to a shared drive on my home LAN, saving files as PDFs. These are then uploaded Google Drive where ev…

Not sure if that was bait or not, but you can get normal (i.e. not google glass) lens + frames for less than £10 delivered in the UK from many different online retailers. The quali…

Just a spin on this: as a java developer that recently started doing a lot of python, what has really annoyed me (apart from the utterly woeful IDE functionality compared to typed …

You can ask for them to provide "extra detail" over email outside of the call as you think that question may need some detailed thought/extra checks etc.

Shameless self promotion for something I threw together ages ago and may be implemented in a better way these days. https://github.com/matt1/doc.js So it uses "doc" instead of "$" …

The "back to their roots" thing inspired this useful reference website: http://standardjavascript.info

How is this Google's fault? Google's name is used in the article title, but then it is basically not mentioned again apart from in a list of equally well-known companies?

For every person that "makes it", there are probably a million or two who do not. Find your passion, do the best you can, learn, improve your skills and you might get lucky one day…

Agreed - what struck me with that site is that all the CVs had photos of the applicants. For anyone applying to where I work please please please do not include a photo because I i…

Yep - you offer up a sacrificial bikeshed/duck for management to meddle with, whilst the important stuff is left alone. Could be one person or a committee/group - its the same thin…

It is called bikeshedding. People have been using "bike sheds" in software development for years to get project managers off their back about the important stuff.

The share link doesn't work!

1) Find a niche area of interest and build a web site and put AdSense ads on it 2) Promote the website a bit 3) Profit. The trick is working out what your niche is that hadn't alre…

About these super tablets... "...least a 13” screen, 64 bit processor, 2GB of RAM, 256GB drive, a real keyboard, an actual file system, and an improved operating system with window…

Seems like the heavy-weight frameworks for grid layouts are, well, heavy. I wanted something lighter so I made this: https://github.com/matt1/10grid Tell me how & why it sucks! :-)…

I was previously an IBMer (not US based) until I left a couple of years ago, and I know someone very close to me who has just been offered redundancy from IBM (also not US based). …