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Exactly: the source is "open" to paying subscribers, just as the source to... just about any closed source software anywhere, can be seen if you buy a licence to see it. It fits NO…

I find it amazing that there still hasn't been a film or TV adaptation of Iain M Banks. Not that such a thing would be necessary or a validation of his writing; but I'd love to see…

I'm in two minds about reading Rand: on the one hand, I've heard nothing but contempt for the quality of her writing from commentators I respect - i.e. prose, structure, etc. On th…

But this colour already has a name. It's called "black".

I feel a bit gutted that Sam Adams wasn't founded by, you know, Sam Adams .

I couldn't help but search the pdf for brace rules, and lo: AV Rule 60 Braces ("{}") which enclose a block will be placed in the same column, on separate lines directly before and …

HTML would be much easier to write if it were based on JSON. Less bandwidth too. Has this been attempted?

Actually, Pakistan is mentioned once in the context of being a possible suspect, as are the USA and China. The other mention is to state that only the Pakistani media initially too…

Ctrl+C means copy the text, with optional formatting. It doesn't mean "run a script", and this little trick implies two things: first, that the author is going to assume that anyon…

That depends - were they risk aware or did they assume Sony would produce another PS3-style effort?

Or, in fact, click-bait internet "top 10" lists in general.

Surely there are only 95 repeated pairs of three digits between 100100 and 194194? And another 95 symmetric numbers. With a leading zero you have 195 each way.

His argument is really against using exceptions as part of normal operation, which I agree with. I've noticed when writing plugins to big monolithic programs like 3DS Max and game …

Defenders of the State on this issue tend to answer the question they want to be asked - "should the state have secrets". No-one (except maybe Julian Assange) is arguing that the S…

But if copyright infringement is theft, doesn't that make communications into possessions?

He claims to be a Microsoft Engineer, but talks like a Microsoft PR. "Consumer delight"? "Sick second screen"? I don't know any technical person who uses this kind of doublespeak.