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I guess that's why it's an experiment. Tourist boards are driven by marketing and PR types. It's refreshingly transparent to hear from - apparently - real people... you see the cou…

The Mashable writer might just be a bit sensitive, I like the Sweden account (and follow other similar ones). Users seem to be free to talk about all sorts of sensitive topics with…

I'm probably alone on this, but 'lame' is such a lazy word to use. Saying it repeatedly just made me stop reading.

Your mother sounds like she's using tabs like you would in Excel, where you have different spreadsheets for different types of transactions. You see that quite a lot with users who…

I don't know where I read this, but I always thought the EC/EU/Euro was an effort by the allied countries to tame a future German economy. If that's true, then Germany distancing t…

I've got to say, I'm wary of supporting technologies that are linked to disagreeable behaviour like that - for a time I was considering phasing out MySQL for a similar reason. I sa…

It is especially surprising given that conference tickets are usually really expensive.

The good thing about legislation is you can go after those minority of bad guys. That's what happens when businesses call individuals who are on these privacy lists, they are repor…

Indeed. There's a developer bubble around Hacker News and websites like Stack Overflow, where topics like bcrypt have become second nature. Whereas standard developers, i.e. those …

Even opting for bcrypt can be sketchy. Native support only appeared a few years ago, older versions rely on the OS - many of which didn't support blowfish without a patch. Fine if …

Indeed. Some processing is good, but a lot of it just makes the food too easy to eat. I would argue that even processing food at home, such as mashing potatoes can be a problem unl…

Conversely, it winds me up when products boast that they have no artificial ingredients, yet have colours or flavours which are mixtures of natural substances that have little to d…

That toolbar has improved a lot since I last saw it, it used to make the websites all jerky and difficult to browse.

Even those tests they give developers to do during the interview process are off-putting, especially given there's a talent shortage in many parts of the world. That said, good luc…

Article seems to be about user addiction, yet it skirts over the topic for some reason.

There's a lot of people out there who aren't regular gamers (i.e. don't use steam), so a high profile bundle like this is perfect.

It's easier to switch parts if you don't specify them.