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These projects are still extremely awesome for those of us running older CPUs!

As they are being featured their promo art is shown to users before they get to the page for that particular app (see the screenshots for their new and old images - you can see it …

I was thinking that I would be reluctant too, but then I realised that I have given plenty of SaaS companys my CC up front - sometimes not even for a free trial (but usually with a…

I wouldn't have called it poor English! I wouldn't have guessed from the text that you aren't a native English speaker - I had to check your About page to be sure. Your writing isn…

Australia has a long history of making bad decisions involving the local wildlife, which is why they are now super-cautious when it comes to things like this.

Take advantage of what you've paid for, but be aware that what you have paid for is far more than just access to educators and educational resources. Make connections with as many …

It's not okay to plagiarise someone else's thesis paper, because the entire point of a thesis paper is to demonstrate your own ability to think/research/etc. If you plagiarise a pa…

Not sure why this is downvoted. I think it's probably right. I get randomly selected for the bomb test almost 100% of the time in Australia. I don't think there is anything about m…

There is an unstable mode in some aircraft (maybe only small aircraft?) where it enters into a kind of spiral dive. When you are sat in a plane where that is happening (I have done…

If everyone used UTC you'd still have many of the same problems, just in reverse. For example, you can reasonably guess that in any country, an office will be staffed on weekdays f…

I found it very straightforward finding a partner to climb with when I started. Rock climbing gyms are very friendly places in my experience, and as others have said, most will hav…

I use installers for things I deem to be key packages (numpy, scipy, stuff like that) and use virtualenv and pip to set up project specific sets of packages. I really don't know wh…

I use Python on Windows for various things, primarily number crunching. Mostly I use it as a better (for me) Matlab, but it's also handy for random scripting tasks. And why do I us…

As a data point for your London vs not London question - if you work for a university in London (vs a university outside of London) you normally get something like an extra £2.5k p…

It's not a perfect comparison, I agree. Probably I shouldn't have mentioned your house. It's more like the police getting a warrant to search a company's premises. My thought proce…

Is this all that different than the police entering your house (with a warrant) to look for evidence? I'd say they have reasonable cause to believe that they will find evidence in …

The British government often comes up with poorly thought out policy ideas, but in fairness, these ideas rarely end up as actual laws - the obvious logic flaws are picked up on soo…

> your choice in email host is a reflection on you Actually my choice to use hotmail is a reflection of me X years ago when I created the account. It is also a reflection of the st…

I think that's pretty hard to do in these post-concord days? Though if you lived close to a time zone border it could be a problem. There are towns straddling the Queensland-New So…

Yes, very true. Doesn't work very well for events where people are attending from multiple time zones. I was thinking more of events that I attend in person. But I'll use the paper…

> You have to tell it a time zone or else the calendar app will not know what time you mean It seems logical to me that whatever time I write in my calendar app is the time that I …

> I run http://whirlpool.net.au An excellent and very useful forum! It seems like whatever topic I'm searching for, google(.com.au) returns a useful result on your site.

That's assuming that people's choice of bookstore is influenced by links. When I buy a book from a website (or pretty much anything from a website) I always check the price on Amaz…

I wouldn't focus on technologies if you are interested in doing this - focus on the types of work/projects you can do. What job could you do from home? If you can do it from home y…

I went through a phase of copy/pasting double inputs. That phase ended when I copy/pasted a mistake from the first input and it caused a whole lot of hassle sorting it out. Now I j…