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Lovely. Here's hoping there's a DeHavilland Hornet sitting in a barn somewhere as well.

Even though the Ariane 5 has a decent record I am so nervous about this launch! Makes you wish they'd built a backup just in case...

I agree that they accumulate, but not necessarily that they don't break. I've recently recycled a 600e (working), a T30 (working), and a T61 (motherboard dead). There was a massive…

I must say, having switched from Google OpenID 2.0 to Google OAuth2.0 for authentication on our site I raised an eyebrow when I belatedly read on Homakov's 2013 blog[1] that OAuth2…

You get all the benefits of a mature and very full-featured RMDBS. Neo4j is a great database, and I use it myself for a project that involves lots of deep hierarchies. But it has a…

I think it's fair to hope for a more customizable Chromium, since customizability is one of the things Opera was known for. For me personally, things like a bookmarks sidebar and m…

Someone needs to tell this guy about the semantic web, though perhaps this is another indication that it's never going to catch on.

> it's not possible to unambiguously segment the text into distinct letters (which is a necessary first step in any OCR engine that I'm aware of) In my experience, the ability to h…

Walter - I'd really be interested in an article/blog about writing a lexer/parser, from your experience and perspective. Just a suggestion ;)

That's not the case in my experience. Anecdotal, but I worked at a company where the brunt of the downturn layoffs fell disproportionately on people who needed work Visas, which ha…

Fascinating. I'm quite impressed she lived to the ripe old age of 66.

Being quite familiar with Kirsty Wark and Newsnight, my impression of this segment was that she was playing devil's advocate, almost doing Greenwald a favour by allowing him to eas…