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You'll be pleased to learn that the National Archives keeps an archive of all UK government sites, e.g.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130403203037/htt...

See http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/

Don't you believe that there are degrees of obnoxiousness in advertising?

How would you feel if this tremendous work of journalism was only accessible after filling in a 20 page lifestyle questionnaire? Do you think that's ok if it means they are getting paid for their work?

Alternatively they could choose less obnoxious advertising that still enables them to earn a living without detracting from the reader's enjoyment.

When you put your money into a structured pension plan for your retirement then it's tax avoidance since you are avoiding paying the tax you normally would if you invested it in some other way. Tax evasion is where you break the law by hiding money that should be taxed. Quite a big difference.

Don't forget Google's free hosting of Javascript libraries and webfonts. The cost of serving those is recouped by dropping a cookie on you. Also Google DNS can give them great insight into domain popularity.

Who is building an alternative to LinkedIn?

I think the article misses some important context about scale and economic efficiency.

When you have 10,000 engineers then decoupling everything behind protocols and formats makes a huge amount of sense because the coordination costs are astronomical.

When you have 10 engineers then you need to standardise tooling and libraries because the costs associated with diversity in the codebase swamp the coordination costs.

This paper from UK Parliament lists several examples of legislation that was enacted retrospectively, including new criminal liabilities in the War Crimes Act. researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06454/SN06454.pdf

It's pixelated because the paper is a scan of a 17 year old paper. The Fermat's Library site is designed to allow people to annotate and comment on old classic papers, most of them from before digitisation of journals.

Usually it's to avoid accidentally promoting a product that competes with a sponsor or advertiser.

Subtitle: "Go is not what I want it to be"

This might stimulate some progress in the UK which is under a legal stranglehold of the privatised post office address file. The licensing of UK postcodes infects all the derived sources meaning there is no clear path to constructing a freely licensed set of geocoded postcodes. The ODI published a report on describing the details of the obstacles faced: http://theodi.org/case-studies/open-addresses-the-story-to-d...

The two sentences are consistent once you read that Go maps are not designed to be safe for concurrent access.

How do you detect the absence of a visit if all you have is a hidden pixel on a page?

I actually support your view but to play the other side of the argument for a bit: what you are suggesting is that the customer has to be an expert in tree health before they use a facility provided by the host. Do they also have to be an electrician before they trust the cooker wont electrocute them; or a heating expert to check the service condition of a heater so it doesn't leak CO and kill them in their sleep?

This well-circulated image shows that making everyone a winner has merit in some circumstances.

http://static.themetapicture.com/media/funny-equality-justic...

The left hand side is fair rules, the right hand side shows a fair outcome

Midnight is before dawn...

Does it hold context for subsequent questions? For example can you ask "what city is the Brandenburg Gate in?", "which country is that in?", "what is its population?"

The main mistake in this article is the assumption that b := a makes 'b' an "alias" of 'a'. It doesn't. It creates a new slice that starts off pointing to the same array as 'a'. Also slices are immutable so you can't change 'a'. If you create a new slice by manipulating 'a' then the copy 'b' won't see anything outside of its bounds.

In the early days of Java, there were tons of articles titled XXX written in Java. Just go look at some early Slashdot or JavaWorld.

This exaggerates the problem. There is more preserved data about people than ever before, just like there was more preserved data last century than there was the previous century. There is simply vastly more data collected. I speculate that deleting 20% of this century's data would still leave an order of magnitude more data about people than was recorded last century.

I think future historians will look back in the same way we do now. We're horrified that people discarded, burned or reused records from every century in history, but technology allows us to record and preserve more every year.

31 April is British Pi day

No, it's never written as numbers that way. But writing March 3, 2014 is fairly common.

More likely the company had debts it couldn't service

Be careful, this is how the Archbishop of Canterbury got picked in 1990. http://liberalengland.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/how-george-care...

  On that occasion the Appointments Committee put forward the names of the 
  Archbishop of York, the favorite of the church leaders but one who had 
  ruffled Mrs. Thatcher's feathers on other issues. 

  To try to encourage his selection, the second candidate was generally 
  regarded as unqualified. An old line evangelical, who thought the 
  Bible contained the answer to every question and who was known to speak 
  in tongues. 

  The Church leaders thought this candidate, George Carey, was too 
  bizarre a choice even for Margaret Thatcher. However, the Prime Minister's 
  anger was such that she decided to teach the Church of England a lesson. 
  George Carey became the designated Archbishop of Canterbury.

I was a long-time Thunderbird user, but the mail application I really loved was Opera's M2. It had an awesome auto-folder system that would create virtual folders for mailing lists, people you regularly corresponded with and date ranges. It's only downside was that it was tied into Opera and there was no way to tell it to open links in another browser.

Marx advocated the use of a state to transition society to a stateless condition. This period of socialism, the dictatorship of the proletariat, is the authoritarian streak that led to the Marx/Bakunin break.

>This is basically just communism re-wrapped as "changing work."

You say that like it's a bad thing. Anarchism historically has always been libertarian communism. It was Marx who paired authoritarianism and communism into the ideology that drove almost all the worst despots of the 20th century.

World wars are uncommon whether we have nuclear deterrents or not, after all we had none before 1914. However we have had major near decade long regional conflicts and many wars by proxy between nuclear powers. While it's persuasive to think that nuclear weapons have prevented world wars, there isn't much evidence to support that idea.

You mean enter the war against Japan? USSR were already on the Allies side fighting the Nazis in Europe.

Hi Asim :) Nice project. Like the use of consul too - we're using it and getting a lot of mileage from it.