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I noticed London there's a sign at the exit of the suburban "Abbey Road" station in London, directing tourists (who were presumably looking for an iconic pedestrian crossing photo …

Yep. There's What A Terrible Failure exception in the Android codebase (i.e. "throw wtf"). http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html... My code made the Android …

Actually there are buttons with a line through them, and ones without. They maddeningly mean different things. See http://petesguide.com/symbols/elevator-button-symbols/

What a fantastic suggestion. I've used Coursera on technical topics in the past, but it hadn't even occurred to me to look there in this instance. Thanks.

This is very true and valuable advice. I've witnessed first hand the tremendous growth my boss (the CEO and co-founder) has undergone in the past year thanks to his mentor. I am ac…

I am a developer and the startup I joined as employee #2 a year and a half ago has been growing steadily. There are now double digits employees and I've been given more responsibil…

Have you tried searching for it on amazon's site with the TLD for your country, or the one of a neighboring country? It is available on Amazon instant on amazon.co.uk. I haven't tr…

fakenamegenerator.com does have "Hobbit" as a name set. Also the Norwegian name set does generate some interesting nordic names like Rosenvinge, Valgard, etc.

Hmm. Interesting. I remember when I recently registered with a new doctor, I was asked directly if I wanted to opt out from my medical information collected by my GP being digitall…

There's also a strong branding presence of Swiss products in UAE and China (including some brands you'd never hear of in Switzerland itself), there seems to be a very strong associ…

I'd imagine TCP, as a protocol starts to fall over with moon-to-earth latencies. Or would it? Perhaps simply increasing the retransmission timer would give us interplanetary intern…

This article hits a nerve for me. There's in particular a sentence right at the start. "If you're young and think you're hot shit, and there's some reason to believe you are, you c…

What a coincidence. I did the exact same thing yesterday, following the instructions here: http://trouch.com/2012/08/03/airpi-airplay-audio-with-raspbe... . You really need a USB s…

Wow. I hadn't come accross this blog before. It has a fantastic wealth of content, all relevant to my interests. Very impressed.

I've been considering that move. To be completely honest, that's actually what I was doing whilst at Univesrity. I had set up a limited company, working on my own content recommend…

Thank you! I have been working very hard to build my reputation in the computer vision industry, over the years I've worked where I am. I think I'm making headway, but I do realise…

I have noticed this. There seems to be a massive gap between the finance sector and everyone else. I'm not too sure what to make of that. For the sake of comparison, the average sa…

What always surprises me with these posts is the amount that developers make in San Francisco. Or possibly in the US as a whole. I work in London for £31k ($50k), doing computer vi…

Would second order differentials imply linear acceleration? Would we then always get better approximations the higher the order? EDIT: I ask this because linear acceleration doesn'…

I might be wrong but I believe facebook does this on any news article linked by someone in your feed. It does so to load up the relevant publication's app upon clicking a link, eve…

That's the key, when you said "many" consumers would consider past products incomplete: it's quite subjective whether to call a product complete or incomplete. They would never adm…

As witnessed by the other comment below yours, I have heard people refer to iTunes as a good piece of software in the past. (I am, incidentally, not one of those. I hate iTunes wit…

Apple has built a reputation of only releasing products that were absolutely completed and quality controlled. From my understanding, the company ethos has been that any defect, no…

Although I wonder if being explicitly told to take your time for such a trivial task would make you more conscious of being observed.