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Docs and a Youtube presentation... https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headle... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6biclFh0i0&feature=youtu.be

Lots, I guess highlights would be... Pavane by Keith Roberts The Spire by William Golding Running Man by Stephen King Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell…

> Why do we send postcards? Because our mothers are scared of smart-phones :-)

Cool! Linux with Viruses :-)

This could be useful as a backup. I don't know about BitBucket, but GitHub has suffered downtime before. If you have a second remote on Dropbox, you can also get to your files ther…

I once started a job where whoever wrote the codebase I inherited had used variable names like MrString, MrsInteger, SirArrayOfArrays etc. Was hilarious :-|

Which is exactly why we need a single new framework to rule them all!

Sounds more like $5 logos for programmers. The technology behind it sounds really interesting - expecting programmers to chase bounties and work for nothing up-front with only the …

It definitely pre-dates the internet - I remember my mother and grandmother writing it in birthday cards at least 25 years ago. Also, I know someone named Lol - apparently it used …

True, but I don't think it necessarily follows that they'd pay for the same content digitally. One thing the web has shown us is that people still value tangible things differently…

The web is 20 years old. I think if this was going to happen, it would have happened by now. Outside of a few niches, people just aren't willing to pay to read websites. What I cou…

It doesn't make sense mathematically because it isn't a mathematical notation, it's linguistic in nature. In Europe, '4th May' is shortened to 4/5. In the US, 'May 4th' is shortene…

Yeah seems obvious, but I don't think it really makes sense to guess that it's a UK format date based on whether one of the numbers is bigger than 12. 4/5/2012 could be 4th May or …

Yeah this was in 07/08-ish - I think someone successfully challenged them in court since.

That's for a commercial license. Home subscriptions are about £25.

My local did this, until he was caught, prosecuted and subsequently lost his job/business and something like £30-40k IIRC.

Ask for forgiveness, not permission!

I've never understood this argument. You need a connection for web-based use-cases. You don't need a connection for non web-based use-cases (document editing, etc works offline). T…

That something does more, doesn't make it better for a given task. In fact in some cases the extras make it less suitable. When you eat a meal, do you use a knife and fork, or two …

Yes - https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton Personally I develop on a Chromebook by SSH-ing into a Digital Ocean server direct from Chrome OS. I don't use it full-time as a dev box …

No, it isn't just about the cost. If I had a choice between a £150 Chromebook and a £75 Windows laptop, I'd choose the Chromebook. Windows isn't an 'upgrade' to Chrome OS.

It's been changed twice since then. First it was changed to include one capital letter, one numerical digit and an asterisk. Now it's correcthorsebatterystaple.