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You mean you don't 'consciously' think about work... your brain is actually still joining dots in the background 24/7... unless you stop it by using drugs!

Software engineers (and many other information workers) are lying to themselves if they think this is even possible (to segment). Proof: a large number of breakthrough designs / pr…

sockjs is better than socket.io if you're into WebSocket (streaming support etc).

Jpap invented a new more efficient JPEG codec - even faster than hardware encoders that use less efficient codecs. Also I think you can optimize hardware usage of iOS devices at th…

The effectiveness of vaccines rely on 'herd immunity', that is: you need more than 90% of a population immunised to stop a disease spreading (as vaccines are never 100% effective)(…

I.e. even within North America there are many different accents that would be foreign to others living elsewhere in North America. Back in Australia there are many distinguishable …

The author fails to interpret the word 'foreign' correctly and thereby fails in building a convincing main argument. In this case, 'foreign' is not synonymous with overseas. A fore…

100% agree with pg on this (and no I don't always agree with everything)... Most problems in life are as a result of miscommunications and associated false assumptions, whether the…

...probably some bot-net-master out there rubbing his hands together going 'ok, well that proves the cyber-weapon works... now time to find some paying customers :)'

I vaguely remember reading that they (the Ericsson patents) were included in the latest VSDL2 specs. Could be rolled out as part of the NBN pending Australia's election result.