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Congratulations, that's very impressive! VBA seems like it will be around for many years to come, and there is probably good opportunity in and around financial centres (London's Canary Wharf/City, New York's Wall Street) for a financial orientated VBA course.

As far as I know, many mid-office support staff spend their lives writing VBA code to soup up spreadsheets for demanding traders. Sure plenty of them would pay for a head start (or the firms would)

Hugely impressive piece of work. I migrated a Wordpress blog to Jekyll a few years ago and was surprised how nice it was working with a flat file system.

However, things do tend to get a bit slow when you regenerate large sites, especially if you are using the "related posts" feature.

I also found myself endlessly hacking Rakefiles to generate tag clouds, embed twitter etc etc. You should ask yourself what you want from your blog before jumping off into Jekyll.

You are of course, correct (as ry0ohki states), but this one FOIA request could lead the way to more competitive favicon quotes from contractors in the future, leaving a net saving for HMG.

Sounds facetious, but it's this transparency that enables public scrutiny (and outrage). The expenses debacle being one such example.

I think you might be underestimating the click-happy masses (myself included) who will happily pump the middle mouse button to queue up some even potentially interesting reads!

What Really is SEO

What is Really SEO

What is SEO Really

What is SEO, really?

...And relax.

Any anchor text you would particularly like people to use? I do quite a bit with SEO, and imagine you want to avoid too many "over here" anchors!

Hm, I am not sure WePay is ready to be making these kind of gestures. I thought I would take a quick look to see if it would be a viable option to receive payments in the UK.

Their FAQ page (https://www.wepay.com/about/faq) features a nice little graphic of questions being asked from all over the world. Great, I thought - one thing PayPal was a bit rubbish at to start with was international payments - WePay must have cracked it.

Down we go to question 13 (https://www.wepay.com/about/faq#thirteen) and we see that no, WePay doesn't accept international payments!

I would rather try and unfreeze my money than not receive any at all.

To quote directly from the above link:

"Walking directions are in beta."

I don't think anyone else will understand why you would want to use it either.

More competition, more innovation, better products for us to use in the future?

You probably don't need to pay attention to this project. Did you pay attention to Google when it first launched, or Apple when it made the Newton? If you're not that interested in the database technologies, you can just not pay attention, and hope that it becomes unavoidable if it is truly remarkable in the future.

Totally agree; I'd rather have the excellent content they deliver and a few ads. Most people just gloss over them, anyway.

OP - try AdBlock, or buying their book to help support them.

I didn't read this as an exercise as avoiding accountability for copyright infringement, I read it as a thought exercise that picks apart the Digital Economy Bill for the joke that it is.

I would like to fill the House of Commons with all those who voted for the bill and have someone read out said thought exercise to see how many of them remotely understand it.

Somewhat confused arguments here, given that Google has started an initiative to make the web faster (through reducing file sizes and HTML cruft):

http://code.google.com/speed/articles/

Interesting, but somehow doubt that many people have the set-up to handle this number of data.

The Independent's piece on the Circle Line (London Underground) being turned into the second Large Hadron Collider.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hadron-collider-ii...

Ever since one of maxklein's posts came into Google Reader and promptly disappeared, I've been looking over his stuff with an eye of uncertainty.

This particular posting mentioned the author randomly meeting someone by a river (who's outlook changed the author's life). The post finished along the lines of "that day at the beach"...

I'm sure the sentiments are all still valid, but hard to swallow with those sorts of discrepancies.

Appreciated ; )

I read this in The Times this morning (made it it into the print copy), and was surprised/pleased to see a HNer make it in).

Also relieved that the usually self-promotional jgrahamc didn't post the link here himself.

I'm not sure I would have many concerns over "privacy" with the number of times I visit "CSS Colour Wheel" or my items tagged "cheatsheet".

It is not so much surfing history, but more a question of how likely I am to want to go to a certain link when I visit my bookmarks.

* Universal (cross-platform, cross-browser) synchronisation.

* Tracking my most-searched-then-clicked-on links, and showing them in a "Personal Top 10" stack for quick viewing, which in turn would be its' own bookmark folder.

Let the race for the iPhone app commence!

Living 365 days a year in a mobile home (caravan) in the UK is illegal, because the occupier must be registered to pay council tax in a local authority, for which caravans do not apply.

Perhaps this is why the UK is floundering in the technology/start-up field?

You probably haven't heard of them for a good reason...

Thanks for all the comments; I have put together a brief summary: http://www.justkez.com/why-are-there-so-many-nosql-options/

It's been very interesting reading the responses.

Good to see such a considered approach in this day and age.

In my eyes, there could be no TextMate 2, and I wouldn't complain. It is such a sturdy, reliable piece of software (with comparatively little in the same league), that it seems unlikely to experience a Quicksilver-esque exodus (although that was dead, not just on the slow burn).

"Froth is a Objective-C web application framework that brings the power and simplicity of Cocoa development to the web."

"simplicity" = subjective

I was expecting a parody of Peter Mandelson, somehow.

Posted this over on the blog, but interested to hear views:

Having read Outliers, what struck me about it was that - despite being a very interesting read - you could only really define the path and circumstances leading to Outlier success with the benefit of hindsight.

Whilst you can argue it is a good time to start up, it is hard to see until years down the line if a particular skill set and particular market conditions did actually lead to the success seen by the people mentioned in the book.

I've had some time to perfect the art of commuting, London style. My first comment is that your 20-25 commute sounds quite pleasant, I'm lucky to make it in 45 (although this is, of course, a function of where I chose to live).

Commuting essentials for me are the iPhone, usually with some TV episodes on, and obviously a bit of music. I have found a good book to be the most engaging activity...newspapers or articles can be a bit too flitty; you need to be properly engaged for the "gloss over" the commute.

Having tried the RSS catch-up idea, I would advise against it, as you arrive at work/home and all those items you've trawled through are still marked as unread.

Perhaps the most misleading title of an article I've ever seen.

"It doesn't get any faster than Linux" would get my vote - on first glance, I thought some caveat had been found in the kernel, meaning it wouldn't go "any faster" than it presently does.

I was quite a keen CakePHP user until it dawned on me how slow and clunky it seemed to be.

Have since switched to Ramaze (http://www.ramaze.net) - a light, modular Ruby framework. Bearing in mind I knew zero Ruby at the time, I have never looked back. Definitely worth a look. (irc.ramaze.net/ramaze offers good support, too).