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I saw her talk in London earlier this year. She was hilarious, eloquent, and inspiring. I found listening to her quite moving in a way I hadn't anticipated. Remarkable woman. I fee…

Great job, and I didn't know cats had such a wide field of vision they could see behind them!

It's not that easy, unfortunately - I'm a registered developer (for the Wii U) and to be 'enabled' for Switch development, you need to jump through a bunch of hoops including descr…

There's conflicting advice on where to start with Iain M Banks' Culture novels, but I would personally start with the first - Consider Phlebas - and read the rest in order. If you …

We use GovPaas for a few things. GovPaas provides the platform which we deploy our applications onto (under the hood it's Cloud Foundry). It is incredibly cheap for our use cases (…

I work with Honda. I've passed the link on. Doesn't look great if you appear to be ignoring this kind of thing!

Some really interesting details in here, presented in a very accessible way. I wasn't aware of how earlier consoles used (effectively) pulses of static noise to create drums, altho…

Wonderful job. Great illusion of depth with just SVG and CSS. Reminds me a bit of Wind Waker.

Can vouch for its efficacy as an indicator for the traits you might want. I use a small application that demonstrates some anti patterns / questionable design choices and ask candi…

Love this. Owls are fascinating. It feels very strange how light they are when they perch on you - even though I was expecting it.

Good luck Remy, sounds fun! Among other things, Remy and his family run an excellent front-end development conference in Brighton, UK (although I'm simplifying it a lot by calling …

I live in the UK, manual cars have had adaptive cruise control here for some time.

Unlike the Wii U, which had a fairly accessible developer program, the Switch is still out of bounds to your average hobbyist developer. Nintendo have been pretty quiet about it to…

I know what you mean, but I subconsciously compare his achievements and obvious talent at that age to myself when I was his age - and he's light years ahead of where I was. Hence, …

I work for one of those companies, and you're absolutely right. Our company takes confidentiality very seriously indeed, it will be interesting to see the consequences of this.

I had Windows phones for a few years - Windows 7 & 8. I moved to Android with a Nexus 5X, but still had fond memories of Windows phone. It was a limited but snappy little platform.…

I share your sentiments - the Wii U has an excellent, albeit small lineup of software. I've seen it as a companion to the PS4 / Xbox rather than a competitor.

This sounds like an excellent step for Nintendo, if it's true. The Wii U & 3DS development kits are fairly expensive if you're hoping to bash out a title in your evenings / weekend…

We have a few at work in our new building, I really love them. They're very nice to write on, very responsive and fast, and you can wheel them around - brilliant.

Arthur C Clarke, The City and the Stars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_and_the_Stars

Not a phone, but Amazon offer an included 'no worries' warranty on their Kindle Fire Kids edition tablet - in the UK at least. I have two reasonably destructive young children, so …

You're right about the UI slowness. That is a problem for the system as a whole. When it was originally released, returning to the home screen (for example) was incredibly slow - i…

It says a custom Tegra, I'd be very interested to find out more about the specifics though.