Roonerelli

I noticed one of these on the UK National Lottery site recently. It asks you how many weeks you want to play for and defaults the choice to "continuously via direct debit"

absolutely. He says the musical spectrum runs from Johnny Rotten to Sid Vicious. Two members of the same band. That's an incrediably blinkered view point

excellent comment - I offer you my most enthusiastic contrafibularities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOSYiT2iG08

that's probably because the streets in the Netherlands are much safer. they often have cycle lanes segregated from traffic. and there is less congestion than other major cities. so bikes come into direct contact with cars far less often

for web services

Nancy http://nancyfx.org/

service stack https://servicestack.net/

Asp.net web api http://www.asp.net/web-api

WCF made the mistake of trying to be all the things to all the people

The abstraction is simply broken

It tried to be a common abstraction over http, tcp, message queue etc. Which is just not possible

There's too many specifics in each of them to have any sort of common interface (in all but the most simple examples)

I'm surprised the increase in phablet use hasn't been at the expense of tablet use. My experience has been that since getting an iphone 6+ I haven't used my ipad at all

you may find this video of use http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ItsNotWhatYouReadItsWhatYouIgn...

"It's not what you read, it's what you ignore"

I think everyone suffers from this to a certain extent. There is an overwhelming amount of info out there waiting to be consumed. We just need to get smarter about how to consume it

if something seems too good to be true....it probably is

Feel sorry for those who lost money, but, I can't imagine transferring money to someone making such promises

Interesting project

More and more financial institutions are starting to implement messaging using the FIX protocol

http://www.fixtradingcommunity.org/pg/main/what-is-fix

Chrome 35.0.1916.114 m on windows 7 64 bit

I can't either. I'm seeing a cross domain error in the console

XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/search?client_id=FNJEOV.... No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://pintsinthesun.co.uk' is therefore not allowed access.

I’ve heard similar stories regarding developers and IT Services

Where the devs weren’t allowed access to the Production environment so would have to leave written instructions on how to deploy the software they’ve written. And convinced that IT Services weren’t reading their instructions they would write something really offensive in there and see if they complained

Possibly just a myth, but amusing all the same

there are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors

On a similar note, you can send in suggestions to this guy and he'll draw them in MS-Paint

http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/

There are a lot of really funny ones in there

perhaps if the OP is reading, he could move it to a Github project and take pull requests