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Red squirrels! Adorable, right? Wrong – they're riddled with leprosy

Re: If it gets desperate enough to eat

Try us.

Celeb-backed music TV phallus Electric Jukebox finally ready for launch

For streming music I choose Radio Six. I think I will start buying cds again for the album experience.

No startup can be trusted to last the same way more than a couple of weeks.

PlaysForSure? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure

Not your Imagination: Britain’s other chip giant posts biggest ever loss

The UK did DAB too soon, as a way to sell off spectrum. What it has going for it is radio 6 and world service. They could find room for those on FM. I can think of many less worthy channels.

How IT are you? Find out now in our HILARIOUS quiz!

Re: How IT are you?

I only knew one IT girl, although I have met a few women who work with computers.

'No regrets' says chap who felled JavaScript's Jenga tower – as devs ask: Have we forgotten how to code?

Re: They stole his code

Well said, but there are less choices on the client (even when you aren't trying to be part of the web X)

Re: "Brenna" and "Sarah"

Women are a majority, even if few of them want to code.They do sometimes get shit thrown at them for no good reason too.

They stole his code

Even if they stole his code in spirit rather than legally.

The clusterfuck is those silly dependancy tools that rely on sites always having the best version of the code.

And server-side javascript (or PHP).

Mud sticks: Microsoft, Windows 10 and reputational damage

Vista was rubbish when it arrived (and particulary on underpowered hardware). By the time it gor service packed it was pretty good. The difference is that was optimisation and bug fixing. No such hope for win 10. I'm looking forwards to Windows 9.

Re: What's the problem?

3.1 had a low memory footprint and loads of new features. Proper fonts for a start. You couldn't have a proper kernal until memory got cheaper for most people.

Pothole campaigner sprays Surrey street with phallic paintings

Re: Councils

Cyclist seem to be taught to use the same space as a car now, so it is worse than a car traffic jam, because it is slow and you worry for the fuckers. I used to cycle everywher, but we knew not to take up the whole road.

Microsoft introduces yet another Skype for Windows 10

Before they 'merged' windows live messenger and skype, I used both. Now I can't use one and won't use the other. They botched merging contacts and lost features that made them worth using. Looks like it is getting worse. Good governance MS.

AMD to fix slippery hypervisor-busting bug in its CPU microcode

Re: "...execute data as software...

Except all those extra pins.

Microsoft wants to lock everyone into its store via universal Windows apps, says game kingpin

No baby and no bathwater

Windows 7 going EOL will be the year of Linux on the desktop, at least for me.

Microsoft screwed up backwards compatibility for developers. I pity the place I interviewed at last time I was job hunting who picked Silverlight on WinCE for their embedded industrial application.

Maybe Linux will have a stable enough ABI and mindshare to get commercial applications by then, but MS making old apps stop working and giving up on good APIs at the drop of a hat means that doen't matter either.

MS had a huge beginers advantage on mobiles with WinCE, then threw it away just as it started getting useful, it was a pain in the arse, but they just beaten the 32Mb memory barrier, got better debugging tools and could have enforced protected memory only for them to give the game to Android while they ditched platform after platform.

MS is a degenerative disease nowadays.

What Compsci textbooks don't tell you: Real world code sucks

Re: We're all genius programmers here

Keep It Simple Stupid. I have had to chuck out far to much clever code that confused but didn't work. Things like singletons that failed to initialise or unload because the OS wasn't ready, and that is just the beginning.