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I don't follow medical tech religiously but read the original article and thought it relevant (I have a friend that actually has both conditions and the treatment for it is brutal)…

Wonder what impact that could eventually have on people with Sickle Cell or Beta thalassemia (or the rare case that hits the genetic jackpot and has both).

It's really not. There were people long retired before I hit the workplace and I'm fast approaching 50. There is a combination of seemingly relentless growth in demand and people d…

http://www.dirtydicks.co.uk/ Bishopsgate, nearest tube is Liverpool Street. Mind your head there are some low beams in there.

http://www.fantasyliterature.com/author-interviews/jim-butch... technically two bad ideas.

I was working at a university in the UK and got to see Mosaic in 93(I think, it was a very early beta). I said to the main sysadmin "It's very pretty, but it will never replace gop…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton's_fork

I think the NSA would know if that was the case and be able to pass that information along.

>As an aside: don't forget the largest major anti-condom propagandists is not African at all (ie, the Catholic church). That would be the curch that also goes on about abstinence b…

Ballmer a visionary founder? That's wrong on at least two counts out of a possible three.

A machine with an NVidia Titan card is top end? I'd have said overkill. I'm not sure why you'd want that for a gaming rig over a GTX780.

Please let it include DocBook.

You actually expanded it into something that by definition is less succinct.

It's even funnier if you google the name of the MP in question and include the name Stemcor. This interview was particularly entertaining. http://www.channel4.com/news/margaret-hod…

It's entirely possible for her to be sarcastic about it after the fact while recognising that's what she's done.

>> What makes you think she was naive about it? Actually I read the line "I forget that Disney's goal is to make money without concern for integrity. Silly me." as implying exactly…

I was just thinking I know quite a few runners that would want this option.

I'm sure they gave the client a discount to reflect that. 2,083% does seem a little low. I started out in a consultancy that did the same sort of things. There's only so many times…

"I've spent 25 years studying excessive video game playing," he said Certainly sounds like someone has a problem

Funnily enough I finally picked up clash of clans because a guy in the office kept pestering me to give it a go. It's very nicely put together and I can't remember the last time so…

" for engineering managers the comprehensive knowledge of the code base and engineering team is usually more important and difficult to acquire than knowledge of how to run scalabl…

I'm aware this is not adding much to the discussion but I couldn't shift the intro to futurama out of my head while reading the post.

How do you get to write as well as George Carlin unless you push, practice and get feedback?

I don't think unhappy is the right word (and even the post doesn't claim the always part) but the first line of Derman's book springs to mind as a partial explanation. "Ambition is…

Up until the final clause of that sentence I didn't have a problem with it (well as a blanket statement it is pretty snarky but a touch of monomania combined with massive self beli…