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From today, a series of changes to the Irish Times Stylebook take effect

Possibly, but Netflix do peer in INEX, https://www.inex.ie/ixp/customer/detail/103

Ironic that to read this article I have to subscribe to the Enconomist.

A simple GAE app (written in Python) to notify me of new posts in blogs I follow, https://github.com/adrian/feed2me

There are lots of managed services to do this of course but I figured it would be a useful learning exercise. And it was

Ireland's corporate tax rate is 12.5% [1]. The 6.5% referred to in that article is for particular types of R&D activities.

[1] http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/ct/

The "Search removal request under European Data Protection law" webform, https://support.google.com/legal/contact/lr_eudpa?product=we...

Netflix already do this, http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/

This is exactly what happened here in Ireland in 2000. The market was deregulated overnight and there was a flood of new taxis on the roads.

Needless to say existing taxi drivers weren't very happy as a lot of them had paid around €100,000 for their license. They were effectively worthless after deregulation.

All this was great news for consumers of course. Before deregulation it was practically impossible to get a taxi in Dublin on weekend nights. I can recall queuing for hours in the cold and wet for the privilege of being dropped home.

The taxi drivers mightn't like deregulation but you can't hold the general public to ransom by operating a closed market. Of course the government should have handled the whole thing better by doing some sort of deal with the drivers who'd paid so much for licences thinking it was a long term investment.

Productivity and sheer balls. My on-the-side projects are pathetic compared to what this guy does. Even a quick glance at one of those LTE specs is enough to scare me a million miles away from a project like this.

Reminds me of the Irish TV series Hands, http://www.irelandstraditionalcrafts.com/ . These programs were shot during the seventies and eighties and record traditional craftsmen at work. It was perfect timing because they were probably the last generation who lived off their trade.

> I have a great respect for people who perform great work for the sake of great work, and I would NEVER chastise them for not hungering for wealth

Absolutely agree. I think what irked the OP was that the rocket scientist was putting off getting married or becoming a dad because he didn't want the financial responsibility. Obviously we don't know if this was a priority of his but if it was he wasn't doing himself any favours by just giving away his valuable skills.

JRebel is worth a look for a similar experience. It reloads classes when they change so no server restarts required.

http://www.zeroturnaround.com/jrebel/

This guy published his LaTeX CV template source, http://jblevins.org/projects/cv-template/.

Not having so much free time is certainly a problem. No more hacking away for the whole day/evening/night. Nowadays I'm lucky if I get a straight 2 hours. The one good thing about this (aside for my beautiful daughter of course) is that it's made me knuckle down and focus on goals. Knowing that I've only got one hour to get a particular task done is a great motivator.

You're absolutely right but like all opinion pieces I don't think it's meant to be taken as "advice". While some of it touches on real problems it's really just a bit of tongue-in-cheek fun.

Leaving aside the subject I really like the writing in this post. He created some great imagery. Good Friday reading.

A lot of old-school programmers seem to feel the same about software. I've been reading the book "Coders at Work" recently and many of the older generation programmers reminisce about the days where they understood (and many times owned) every single line of code from the hardware up to their applications. Some say that they wouldn't like to be a programmer today because they'd have to accept too much as black-box (OS, frameworks, etc).

I can certainly sympathise with the OP and the older generation of programmers but I can't help feel that it's more a case of standing on the shoulders of giants. If we're to forever tinker (even if it is fun) with basic electronics or low level programming we'd have a hard time making any progress. As painful as it is I find it best to accept that something is black-box and just work with it, warts and all. Having said that, it's really useful to have the source code for the frameworks/libraries you're working with. Delving into it is similar in ways to the tinking the OP speaks about.

Great to see this development but won't they need a huge block of IP addresses to support this?