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No inheritance doesn't compel Apple to unlock that inherited property. Imagine it like a safe. You might inherit a safe but there is no obligation on the manufacturer to help you u…

https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/#?src=https%3A%2F%2Fi...

That's a bit of a harsh comparison. Stuff is the online format of all of Fairfax New Zealand's newspapers, some of which occasionally produce decent stories. Stuff is mostly just s…

Self proclaimed "Thought Leader" and "Digital Prophet" sounds rather egomaniacal. I just assume anyone with titles like that is trying to sell synergy and snake oil.

There's some interesting technical history behind some of the emergency number choices: 999 in the UK (from 1937) was chosen because public payphone could be easily modified to mak…

The lawsuit is from Waymo which is technically a sibling company to Google.

The general recommendation is now to start with 5 Back Blows then 5 Abdominal Thrusts (the Heimlich), repeated as necessary. Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.org/first-aid/first-…

The claim of being the most funded software project is down to Font Awesome being the most funded project in the Software category. https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/…

I did a bit of work on a 28 story building that developed a 1.5m lean during an Earthquake. The story of the demolition http://www.ward-demolition.co.nz/grand-chancellor/

There are a couple other interesting variations from the default. Having a border (Republic of Congo, using a map rather than a coat of arms (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), and…

I'm well aware of the nature of, and reason for the ANZAC day commemorations. The irony was that an event that served to define New Zealand and Australia's national identities, is …

In New Zealand and Australia, the landings at Gallipoli are commemorated with a national holiday (ANZAC day, 25 April). I've always found it ironic that what is probably our most i…

Why just celebrate Science? In New Zealand our banknotes feature people famous for all kinds of achievements: $5 - Sir Edmund Hillary (Climber), $10 - Kate Sheppard (Woman's Suffra…

In New Zealand, LINZ (government mapping agency) provides all of their data online under a Creative Commons Attribution License: https://data.linz.govt.nz/

A number of countries that incorporate the union flag would also need to consider changing: Australia [1], New Zealand, Niue, Tuvalu, Fiji, The Cook Islands, Bermuda. Also assorted…

Implementation using CSS3: http://jsfiddle.net/spectre/52Bf2/3/embedded/result/

A programmer is always capable of writing better parallel code then such a compiler but writing safe and correct parallel code is beyond the skills of many programmers. A good anal…

while the compilation does technically terminate it is doing so with a StackOverflowError which along with the resulting stack-trace most likely indicates a non-terminating recursi…

I'm surprised the Maori Advisory Board of the Intellectual Property Office hasn't blocked this on the grounds that 'koha' is a Te Reo Maori word (translated as gift or offering). T…

While anecdotal evidence is always suspect, remember that the case in the article is MongoDB's optimal use case. That being of being extremely read heavy (There is no indication th…

Cool idea, but unless there is some system to lock the walls into place, this would be very dangerous in an earthquake. I've seen a number of high density file systems (same idea b…

Keep up the good work I look forward to your next article.