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Interestingly, this is exactly the same method I use to weed out bad employers.

Maybe when the market's a bit worse I'll be forced to jump through one of these hoops. But right now...


I might have started with DOT. I get that this is more specialized, though. Nice work.


Weird. Lived here all my life, only time I've ever heard it is in "look at those wacky Yanks" conversations. South coast/London here. Maybe it's regional?


Trying to pattern match on my experiences, I might conclude that it's an age thing. People over 40 are more likely to say "Legos" than those under 30.


From a UK perspective. I'm 48, most of my friends are 38-60'ish, we all call it Lego. I'm more inclined to believe that it's younger people in the UK (under 25-30) that use "Legos", simply due to the availability of US kids telly that us older farts never had (I barely had three channels up until 2002 - BBC1/2 and Channel4). My ex's kids picked up some of these aberrations ("so fun" instead of "so much fun" is an example that used to grate for me). There were so many times I wanted to sabotage that bloody Sky box.


Maybe "display this resource text-only" rather than "hide this resource" would be a reasonable compromise.

An acceptable ads standard, in other words.


Subtle abuse of type juggling is the way to go in PHP

    var_dump(true == 'false');
Or you can overload library functions by abusing namespacing or runkit, but yeuch.


Yeah, but the BBC are rewriting an Assange press-release, not a Swedish press-release.


Github Firehose if it was me.

Something to build tools on top of.


You should check your stats some time and see how many of your users fail to load your JS, rather than are capable of loading your JS. You might be surprised, especially if you have lots of mobile traffic.


Just out of curiosity, what's the standard way to gather that data? I guess you could put a non-JS request (like an image) and a JS request (like XMLHttpRequest) on each page, and compare numbers.


A `<noscript>` tag seems most intuitive to me, perhaps paired with some server-side Google Analytics.


Also, most of the corporate people still have forced IE installed on their work laptops. SPAs do generally break in IE.


My college had an (experimental?) machine they got from Acorn that dual-booted into a 'nix OS. It got stuck in a corner and forgotten about, but if it had been a few years later I think it could have been an amazing project for them.


When I was in secondary school, we had a plain grey, all-in-one keyboard and system desktop case that had a microdrive and was connected to a hacked colour TV via a massive umbilical cord. It turned out to be a BBC Micro prototype.


They sold a BSD port called RISCiX.


Free movement of goods, labour and capital. Miss out one and you don't have a free market, you're just being scammed.


And that’s what makes the huge difference between Schengen and free trade agreements like TTIP. (If one ignores the protection part of TTIP)


Schengen is for citizens only. If you are third-country national who is a permanent resident of a Schengen country, with an unlimited right to work, you have exactly ZERO right to live or work in any other Schengen country. Sure, you can travel by land without having your passport checked, but that's as far as it goes.

The European Union is a Union until you need it to behave like one, and then it isn't.


Isn't Schengen only about passportless travel? I thought it didn't have anything to do with right to work?


As always, with the EU, it’s complicated, but often the "free to work, live and retire everywhere in the EU" is considered part of Schengen.


Is it? Then how come Romanian and Bulgarian citizens get the same rights without being in Schengen? Or don't they?


You are correct. The main pillar of the European Union is the common market including the free movement of goods, capital and people.

Schengen was originally a treaty outside of the framework of the EU but has since been taken over by it. There are EU countries outside of Schengen (GB, Ireland) and there are non-EU countries part of Schengen (e.g. Norway, Vatican, Switzerland). However all countries that join the EU now eventually have to join the Schengen area.

Besides Visa free travel for residents of these countries Schengen also includes a common Visa for foreigners traveling to these countries (so you only need one Visa to to travel to France and Germany) and allows the police to cross the border when perusing suspects and detain them on the other side.


Thanks for the explanation!


As I said, with the EU everything has special cases and exceptions.


Yeah, it's more complicated than I thought...


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