robeasthope

Couldn't agree more, the levels of biting misanthropy on HN really narks me off sometimes.

Fair point

Zurbs' grid uses percentage widths for columns and is mobile-first - BS 3 now uses a similar system which makes the only really difference SASS/SCSS vs LESS if you just want the grid

While I agree that this the way to go, I grew up in the neighboring seat and sadly tech issues are never going to get a foothold there due to the demographics and local political class - if you need a pop culture reference, Simon Pegg's Hot Fuzz is a practically a documentary about the area...

Drones are the future for a lot of missions, but considering the amount of money thrown around, no Congressman is going to turn the opportunity to secure billions in defence spending for their state/district.

Defence spending has always been driven by domestic pressures - anyone remember the 'scandal' when Airbus (with a better plane) secured a contract for US transport airlift?

It's a bit much to call bored security staff perverts and opening up the data to the public is guaranteed to attract the crazies - Would you want your (crazy) ex to be able to follow your new love life with a new partner via CCTV?

FYI it's not all bad: the UK automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) CCTV network run by the police (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police-enforced_ANPR_in_the_UK) is currently being legislated by the Coalition to bring it under statutory regulation - considering the revelations about police conduct over undercover cops it can't come to soon either.

P.S. Bless the UK gov, a full surveillance state can't happen because it's rubbish at IT: 'The current restraints on police use of ANPR data have been dictated by pragmatism rather than a concern for civil liberties. Giving every police officer free access to the system would overload the system, "make it unstable, slow it down", said John Dean, National ANPR co-ordinator for the Association of Chief Police Officers.'

Got a link for that story?

My god, it even uses tables for the layout, takes you back uh?

Amazing - does anybody know how much post-processing went into it? The oranges and blue hues are a bit strong or is it actually that vivid?

Just gave flatnik a spin and the concept looks pretty good.

Might be an idea to add an option to separate out the journeys into bus/tube/OG lines since the TfL Route Planner sometimes give strange routes when all mixed together?

Edit: Silly typo's

If you look at the stats over the past two decades nearly all wages have been near static regardless of profession. No wonder there is a credit crisis...

I'm guessing looks like it's built to solve the problems of serving HD images via a CMS?

For static hand coded images media queries will suffice but once you start dynamically serving images it gets tricky fast, especially when faced with users that don't know/care about HD images issues.

Combined with some code to scale images to the correct size on the fly (with caching, etc) I think it could be pretty useful.

Trust me, in the UK at least, you really don't need much to game the welfare system.

While the government is making gradual changes the requirements and checks for UK citizens to claim job seekers allowance week after week are laughable low compared to the rhetoric thrown around.

Hopefully I'm just being paranoid but on the off chance I'll say this:

You sound pretty depressed - remember the best functional description of depression is an inability to create detailed mental images of the future - Your entire psyche is focussed on trying to solve all the things you've got going on (which is natural because want to fix this) but be careful about it distorting your perspective.

Slow down your thinking and try not to freak out - like others have said you are young and that gives you time to learn new skills. .

If things get bad or you just want to talk email the Samaritans in the UK - http://tinyurl.com/bfghx6q - it's all anonymous and they won't care or even know about the US connection unless you tell them (If anybody knows the US equivalent or one local to the area, post it below). There are literally hundreds of people out there that want and can help with these situation but you've got to seek them out - Western society is terrible dealing with mental health issues but once you fire up the bat signal decent people come running. Good luck

I think the NYT 'paywall system' is just a cookie on your computer. Just delete any related cookies and it'll reset the monthly/weekly counter.