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Thinking about it I'm not that surprised - the population is very small, and most people can/do avail of free third-level education.

That said, I'm Irish and therefore totally biased toward Stripe for that reason alone. As if their stellar tooling and the friendly, truly excellent customer and tech support I've …

Yeah, I'm developing a new product at the moment - I surveyed a bunch of end-users and a LOT of them had PayPal accounts - so Braintree's PayPal integration is a compelling feature…

You'll be glad to hear that they've finally been removed since PHP 7.0 so slowly but surely they're being consigned to history. And there seems to be much better awareness about th…

That article was posted on April 1st 2011...

Indeed. I heard some of the Somme Commemoration on the radio the other day, and I was moved deeply by Charles Dance's recital of Siegfried Sassoon's "Aftermath"[1] > Do you ever st…

What a funny coincidence - I just discovered and used this a few hours ago. I wanted to rip some YT audio from (mostly) old records that I have that are not on Spotify etc. I looke…

Thanks, looks like it's back up now. Google didn't appear to have a cached copy; it kept giving me a 503.

Anecdote warning, but this feels very common to me in "Hibernio-English" as well. I do it a lot when a simple yes/no would suffice, and I notice other people doing the same. I assu…

The first thing I did when I arrived on this page was do a page search for 'fractal'. There's always one.

"Very disappointing for a machine which isn't 3 years old". This really resonates with me, sitting at a similarly aged iMac that frequently displays bafflingly poor performance, di…

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Haha. This really reminds me of the very first webpage I ever made, in... 2000 I think? I created a series of images of a lens flare turning a magenta background into a white flash…

Ha, I love this so much. You'd be quite thirsty after a walk like that - good thing there are plenty of pubs on Baggot Street :)

The dollar sign usually only bothers me after I've gone away and written a little Python. Actually, has anyone ever tried a 'CoffeeScript for PHP' that removed the dollar sign, rep…

Good points. I wonder if the two World Wars are outliers though. I don't know if there was anything comparable before them before - there really hasn't been anything since. Of cour…

Exactly this. I worked in Apple's EMEIA HQ for about 11-12 months. Actually I started about a week before Steve Jobs died, and honestly, nobody on the floor seemed to care that muc…

I'm not convinced that high tech war machinery precludes collateral damage - to use that stomach-churning phrase. I appreciate your point on one hand - conventional weapons can be …

Great to see Heaney mentioned by several people here! Recently voted Ireland's favourite poet of the last 100 years. This poem is a great example of his talent to document the smal…

Thanks for your answer. Maybe my use of the word repercussions was a bit strong - I don't know much about attitudes there and I am asking out of curiosity, not as a challenge etc. …

I think your desire to participate is commendable. I don't know anything about the safety risks of collaboration to Gazans, it's very sad situation and I appreciate that it's very …

I'm not sure that worked quite as well for Dart though.

Bit off-topic but that pleasing musical sound when you hit the space bar is really like the first note in Aphex Twin's "PAPAT4 (Pineal Mix)" :)

Your settings are showing... Don't forget to change your secret key if this is the one you've deployed: https://github.com/johndavidback/can-i-wear-shorts/blob/mast... Neat site th…

I think this is the nail on the head for me. I came to the conclusion late last year that I was spending too much time reading social, news and commentary - getting really sucked i…