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The worst part about the implementation is that the browser icons often appear unsorted initially, and then the sort kicks in 0-5 seconds later, and they all shuffle. This has caug…

The solution is to get a decent external keyboard. A laptop keyboard is never going to be good. Stop dancing around the issue - get a decent keyboard. I started to get wrist pain a…

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Compiler.ht... "The Android reference implementation does not (yet) contain such a JIT compiler, though other implementations may c…

The url itself is quite odd (firefox instead of facebook).

Mine is a stock iPhone. No jailbreaking or other shenanigans.

"Software apps or Apple can push updates I don’t want." The badge on my iPhone's App Store icon that says '34' seems to suggest otherwise.

It's certainly the only explanation that fits the facts. The only one.

This reminds me of a point I heard someone make about (I think) a Heinlein novel. Heinlein (or whoever :)) had predicted the widespread use of telephone answering machines. Their p…

Odd. I have two 1920x1280 monitors (arranged as yours). With my mouse acceleration I can go from extreme left to extreme right without much effort (don't have to lift my palm off t…

Maybe it's this line: "That's it for now. I really apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but I hope you understand that this is fully beyond our control." ...because I've…

There are an awful lot of people who never use the address bar - they just go to google.com and type the URL into that. So this kind of makes sense.

Maybe, but a lot of interviewers ask questions like this because they love being smug about catching people out for not asking about requirements before starting. I was in an inter…

I know I can't be alone in being super-excited that all those annoying Flash ads for dog food are going to work just fine on my mobile phone too.

If you search for leopard dildos on SL, it asks "Specify type of leopard"

Agreed. Whenever I see one of those operator precedence tables in a programming language book, I just skip it. Other than BODMAS, I have no real idea what precendence logical/bitwi…

You may also like the story of LEO then: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Called-LEO-Worlds-Office/dp...

And what's funny about trojans?

Also got redirected to some (presumably malware) antivirusscan site.

"Consumer banking has always been free in the UK." No, it hasn't. Charges for writing cheques, withdrawals, etc were common at one point. I remember the switch to free banking in t…

When I check my GMail spam folder, I get spams at about the rate of one per minute these days. Filtering those manually became unworkable for me years ago. I maybe see a spam in my…

Yes, in many ways, Jeff 'took one for the team' in a big way, in that he reminded a lot of people to "Er...I'll just check my backups and make sure they're working." We're tech typ…

iirc, squatting is the best position for humans for this activity. (You can probably work out why; something to do with the lack of toilets at some point in history)

When you test airbags, you have to then replace them. This is possibly the worst car analogy ever :-)

As mentioned already, the book Peopleware has a section the Black Team, which predates this article by quite a few years.

When I was interviewing C++ programmers, we had a C++ test, and some stock questions I asked face to face. However, I found I could pretty much weed the good C++ programmers from t…