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Wouldn't it have been more sensible to do the launch from somewhere nearer the edge of the earth?

I tried pinterest a while back (so apologies if it's changed since)... I remember the sign-up process was awful. Part of the sign up process forces you to follow a certain number o…

What was always worse was that the choices never came with any explanation. I remember a while back trying some flavour of Linux or other, and during installation it asked (paraphr…

And on desktop too. Page up / page down keys don't work unless you focus the page. There is a scrollbar within a scrollbar.

In situations like this, you can report the bug to Microsoft Connect: 1. Submit bug report. 2. Wait six months. 3. MS tech will post a comment, "this will be fixed in the next rele…

I've found the "24 Days of Hackage" series incredibly useful - each day is a brief introduction to a useful Haskell library, many of which show off features of Haskell that aren't …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_insolvency_law#U... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_while_insolvent

I can't remember how tight I made it... but I would think you need a couple spare: one for the number of iterations, and another for the screen stride. But yes, spilling registers …

Reminds me fondly of the time I was writing assembler for the ARM2/3... it had such a nice instruction set that made hand-writing assembler pleasant. It had a "barrel shifter" that…

Surely open-source handset OSes are just as vulnerable to patent attacks? If Firefox OS were to take off, it would immediately become a target for exactly the same sort of lawsuit.…

The article compares to other first world countries, where I seriously doubt there is a problem with (under-)reporting infant deaths.

It's not just kids who are reassured by cosmetic changes. MRIs used to be called NMRs. People freaked out because of the word 'nuclear'.

The problem there is the word "allotment". How can you allocate in advance how many sick days to give? If you allot (say) four days sick each year, and an employee is sick three ti…

Does "verbatim" mode approach what you need? Google won't attempt to guess what words it thought you meant in that mode.

Judges flaunt the law, surely? I mean, if you're wearing a huge wig and robes, you've got to be flaunting something.

The press could mention it, that would be a start. BBC news for instance barely mentioned the proposed blocking. The only stories to hit the front page (and then, right at the bott…

And in fact, writing scads of dumb code is often the sign of a poor developer. It often follows from the "never turn back" mentality, that leads them to follow an initial poor choi…

Steam Cloud Sync can be a bit flaky at times, which is annoying when you play something like Civ V on multiple machines.

I'm going to add step 5b - save what SQL you executed (against what server, and for what reason), ideally in source control, as an audit trail. Otherwise, I end up having this conv…

Lego Education does a spare parts catalog - but not sure if you can buy from it as a private individual. I used to use something similar when I was a kid - I couldn't afford (say) …

I'd add one more thing to this article: don't throw these projects away, even if they seem failed/doomed/incomplete. Store them somewhere. Back them up. Whatever. You might need th…

The UK did use legislation to gradually switch to the metric system, with certain exceptions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingd... One major way in which…

The selling point would be that you might only need one car instead of two - which would make 25k more attractive than 2x20k. The use of a self-drive car isn't that it drives you t…

Agreed. As I understand it, these automatics kick in when there's a certainty of a crash ahead if no action is taken. In those circumstances, it's better to avoid the certain crash…

I vaguely remember there was some discussion of this in 'Metamagical Themas' by Douglas Hofstader. It's been a while since if I read it, but if I remember correctly he drew some pa…