gazrogers

Welsh is actually quite different from the other two. It uses lots of ll and ff and it uses w as a vowel (e.g., cwm).

Welsh also uses a circumflex accent to extend any of the vowels, and since both 'w' and 'y' are vowels in Welsh (leading to many jokes by English speakers about words with no vowels) they can have the circumflex accent too. I've had problems in the past finding the alt-codes to generate w or y with a circumflex accent - so those may be unique to Welsh.

From http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/bylanguage/welsh.html : > Because of the writing system, Welsh places accents on the letters w (phonetic /u/) and y (phonetic /ɨ/ or /i/), which is very unique in languages of the world. These symbols require Unicode support apart from that of other Western European languages.

What does this bring to the discussion, other than your apparent delight in anti-Welsh bigotry?

The author's hardly a novice when it comes to software design though: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Software-Engineering-Ian-Sommerville...

The anaemic way would turn that 10,000 line file into something closer to 10,000 one-line files. To me, that is the very definition of spaghetti code.

My biggest problem with the enterprise Java way of doing things is the fact that you have to open 18 files just to figure out how the hell one small bit of functionality works.

It's all very pretty, but having looked at the source code for the page it's not really very semantic. If you're creating buttons and using DIVs and not one BUTTON, you've completely missed the point of semantic HTML. Menus are lists of links - why DIV > DIV > A instead of UL > LI > A? The latter provides meaning to the structure whilst the former does not.

The current 'living wage' in the UK is 7.85 outside of London and 9.15 in London. So no, 7.20 isn't a living wage - especially in London.

How do you link the browser to the session, if not with cookies?

Sir Alan Duncan said the "meaningless missives" led to "forests' worth of paper" being wasted when emails are printed out.

Well stop printing out your sodding emails then, you clown.

1) British!=English.

2) David Cameron is in no way representative of the British or the English.

Please stop painting us all with the same brush.

I wish I could upvote this more than once. A lot of comments here are positive about the idea of a single global language when it's their language that wins out. I strongly suspect that if it were Mandarin, Arabic or Russian instead of English that was being suggested, their enthusiasm for the idea might be more muted.

One of the benefits of learning to program J for me has been to make it easy to remember hard to crack passwords. I have some passwords which are actually runnable J on-liner programs and contain all kind of '#!$' symbols. All I need to do is remember what they do so that I can recreate them.

That's a bit like complaining that a joke isn't funny because you didn't bother to read/listen all the way to the punchline.

Life isn't a race.

Wouldn't it make more sense to make prisons mobile signal dead-zones?

The map also seems to be saying there's no McDonald's in Romania, but I'm pretty sure I've eaten in a McDonald's in Bucharest.

Stabbing yourself in the eye with a fork can change how you view the world too. Maybe we should recommend that everyone does that?

The original comment I replied to was suggesting that the date picker was a bad thing. My point is that it's better than any other method, since parsing a date correctly for all people in all situations in the way implied in that post is not possible. There will always be ambiguity over the date if the user chooses to use 'dd/mm/yyyy' or 'mm/dd/yyyy'. Chaking location, or locale isn't much use - we brits go to America on occasion, and they come over here. If you mark it as [dd/mm/yyyy] then you've just limited the usefulness of 'a free-form date that gets parsed smartly'.

If I type in '02/03/2013' is that the 3rd of February or the 2nd of March?

It is Handel. The Opera is Serse or Xerxes.

Glum and gloomy rain fell on Gloucester like globs of runny goo in the gloaming. :-)

Lets see your long list of pristine, error-free commits then.

You're not even 30 and you're speaking as though your career is over and your chances of ever doing cutting edge stuff are gone. Your life is to a certain extent what you make it. Stop looking back at the crap times with regret otherwise you'll end up a bitter old man.

And stop thinking that your IQ entitles you to anything. I scored 175 on an IQ test (Cattell III B - probably equivalent to 147 on the test you took) and I work doing CRUD apps for an insurance broker for $40000. I'll never work for Google or a company like that much as I'd love to. Your IQ test score is nice - and great for showing off - but it doesn't entitle you to anything. You need to earn your career.

Inspect element/Firebug -> display:none;

Reddit was worthless. It libelled countless people for the "crime" of attending the Boston marathon whilst carrying a backpack, or worse, being "brown".

And anyone in the vicinity of the dartboard is going to get hurt.

And they were wrong on all counts. No bullseyes.

If you're their kids, I'm pretty sure the marriage comes out on top.

What utter crap. Would you rather go back to the time when only the children of the wealthy would be educated by private tutors and the children of the poor (who couldn't afford to have their children educated to even basic standards) went into work as soon as they were able? Without school how do those kids get an education? Their parents are probably working all hours to make ends meet so they won't be able to provide the basic numeracy and literacy skills a child needs to function in society.

Even assuming infinite ingenuity in humankind, our lifespan will still be limited by the lifespan of the universe. The second law of thermodynamics is not going to be broken no matter how clever we are. :-)

If people's lifespan was no longer determined by their body succumbing to the ageing process, they would still be able to die by other means. The population would explode (even more than it currently is) because far fewer people were dying and most people were still having sex and creating more immortals. At some future point (probably not too far away) there would not be enough food on the planet to sustain the lives of all the people living on it. This would lead to mass starvation and/or world wars over land to grow food.

Unless our research into creating immortals also throws up a way for us to photosynthesize, it's really not worth it. Far better, I think, to accept that our time on this earth is limited, and to make the most of what time we have. :-)

I don't want immortality. And I'd suggest that anyone that does has not properly considered the consequences.