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I was equally confused. I thought it was some USA/Canadian phrase I'd never encountered before but it seems like it's another reference to Tiger King (in addition to the one in the…

Skimming the list, it does seem very heavily dominated by US local news sources.

My first thought was the Fenix twitter app.

I think the point on linguistic imperialism was referring to things like the Welsh Not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not

I always got the impression that Lotus Notes was a great idea, but very poorly implemented. The concepts in it were good, it was just a shame it inflicted so much suffering.

Traditionally, Oracle make their software available to anyone with a development license, meaning you are not allowed to use it in production for commercial use. This isn't so unus…

In summary: * The latest version of Java will always be free to download. * There will be new versions every 6 months with zero overlap. * LTS versions are available every 3 years,…

Also, once you get to Java 11, you need to either pay for the LTS version or be prepared to update Java every 6 months with no overlap. Because of the increased release cadence, th…

I guess what you're really asking there is "is Oracle litigious?"

Often, these kinds of migrations are the only option due to previous cost cutting/money saving decisions - likely due to pressure from the business and nothing to do with any techn…

It's come a long way. I was aware of Codenvy years ago and recently became aware that they seem to have joined the Eclipse Che effort. The main thing missing from Che, for me, was …

It's an odd statement to make, given that he states he's not a programmer in the notes.

If you've never come across Hans Rosling before, I highly recommend watching one or two of his videos on world statistics. His overall point is that the world is doing much better …

Xubuntu is now my first choice operating system. I have it on 2 desktops (one Dell for work and my home desktop). It also works great on an old Lenovo X-series and a Dell latitude.…

Apparently as an Office 365 user my experience is already "richer". I can't imagine how awful this could possibly be that my experience should be better. I mostly resort to using G…

Fortunately for me, the only game I really care about (Civ5) is available on Linux thanks to SteamOS. It certainly seems as though I am in the tiniest of minorities, though.

There are docker containers available for most of these. Spring Boot is made by Pivotal too, so has native CloudFoundry support if you want a PaaS. Docker is likely the most portab…

Deployment with modern Java platforms/frameworks is simple. With Java EE you can create a runnable fat JAR just by running `mvn package` with WildFly Swarm. Spring Boot also has th…

It's the little things that make the difference for me - like being able to restrict pushing to certain branches to either specific people or specific groups, which has saved a lot…

Their pricing is different to Github. GH pricing increases with the number of private repositories needed, whereas BB prices based on team members, with unlimited private repositor…

I think the argument comes down to the fact that audio latency is preventing the makers of the most popular/lucrative apps from developing for Android, the implication being that t…

There is onedrive-d, but it's in very early development and can be a bit buggy. Fortunately the bugs manifest in duplicate files, not missing files, but it's a bit of a hassle to m…

What a WASTE.

You might have a point from a technical perspective, but I think these kinds of technically easy projects show their worth in other ways. In this case, the builders had to think ab…

I think it was Singapore where a safety car blew out Vettel's advantage and the pack caught up. Obviously tyre wear was very low in that period, so the team told him to put his foo…