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Great story and best of luck to you guys going forward. This is a very useful tool. I find myself using it more and more lately when I need a quick test spin in the explorers.

Martin Belam (IA guy at the Guardian) wrote an excellent rebuttal to this yesterday. http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2011/07/andy-news-redux.ph...

Newscorp or LulzSec?

From the point of view of someone who likes to tinker with languages, yes. Recipe books are usually extremely helpful and massive timesavers.

Ditto. I've been using this site since Darius called himself Prettyboy on a little known forum. Been great watching it grow over the years.

I adore Python and the general ethos of the community. I can be a bit of a sideliner and I usually don't have a lot of spare time - when I do I fritter it away playing with code an…

Great news. Now can we have the API?

Why lock the platform into 5.3 without making use of 5.3 features (namespaces would clean the structure up a little). Why not use getops for the command line arg processing rather …

Most software engineers do not need a deep understanding of Human Factors as a working tool, it is a broad term covering multiple disciplines and mediums - particularly focused on …

I don't think some people are aware an entire discipline exists within Software Engineering called HCI [1]. Is the distinction made between graphic design and ui design? I'm not so…

Another similar hack I discovered. You can get a full blown MSc with no attachments such as (open) from The University of Liverpool [1]. You can gain entry if you have enough exper…

When the free market comes into play it's called spec work. When through-the-roof fees need to be justified it's called pitching. I love design but the hypocrisy in the game is ama…

Indeed, a bunch of New York executive wages over an 18 month period start to add up. Khoi Vin (former art director) pondered this on his blog a few weeks ago [1], citing it as one …

Hype. If they say it's big it must be so. $41mm funding announcement and the fanfare with it, they need a lot of early traction fast. And it seems this is how they are going about …