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In case you don't know: "Tower Hamlets residents visit for just £1 Local residents within the borough of Tower Hamlets can visit the Tower of London for only £1.00." It's worth a v…

"The United Nations Population Division defines sub-replacement fertility as any rate below approximately 2.1 children born per woman of childbearing age, but the threshold can be …

How do you get the audio from Youtube?

HN crowd might diss this product but if you consider all those execs and managers in medium/large corporations that rely on personal assistants to get their email and meetings sort…

If the code has tests, I would start by looking at those tests. If it has no tests, then I would slowly try to build tests to document the functionality that I need. In your case b…

The abstraction is there because in many static languages you will immediately have two implementations, the infrastructure one (database, API call, 3rd party) and the tests.

Don't Make Me Think (200 pages) Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People (235 pages)

Some more Curated lists: Jeff Atwood more comprehensive list https://blog.codinghorror.com/recommended-reading-for-develo... Steve Yegge https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/t…

Overtime I've built my own list of lists. Books lists for Hacker News: https://toptalkedbooks.com/hackernews http://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news http://ramiro.org/v…

There is no proof immunity will happen, the UK Gov is thinking in economic terms and worried about GDP. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/mar/13/coronaviru...

Dapper for C# made by StackOverflow team https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper

Is it still water resistant?

Maybe the Phat Glider or Boomberang I from John Collins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pKicjvC6Uo

Dr Dobb's Jolt Awards. There are still many technical books being published would be nice to have some curation.

I think you're confusing it with Kazaa.

Jetbrains was using a package provided by Microsoft and blogged that they would soon have to disable debugging of CoreCLR Read “The Bad News” https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017…

Read the blogpost. What do you use and recommend to write React Native? Nuclide, VS Code, Vim, Atom, Intellij?

The series moved to a channel called "Getting Real" where Jason Fried also publishes videos about design decisions. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdx5Dk3EWTe2i8YDA7bfl6g/vid...

I have not, thanks for sharing it is nice that also collects links from Reddit. Other similar websites Most mentioned in StackOverflow http://dev-books.com/ Most mentioned in Hacke…

The list of books that won Jolt Awards can be seen here http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Jolt_Awards

It means nothing. Had a permanent position in a big Portuguese company and everyone in the whole team was working 12 hours plus per day. Is uncommon to have people in Portugal work…

Lisbon is definitely a nice place to live, but not so much to work. Otherwise why the significant emigration rate of tech workers/skilled workers? Pay is low and the hours are long…

there is a 250-400 km range for FlightRadar, it does not cover oceans very well. http://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works "Flightradar24 has a network of more than 3,000 ADS-B rec…

I have been using Catch on Android for years now, I am going to try Google Keep but what other similar alternatives are there?

That is my point exactly to them, but it seems tougher to leave family and friends when you live comfortably and still save some cash. Here is a sample of excuses my Portuguese fri…