The editors realize that Russia spans 9 time zones right? I think they meant to say Moscow Time. Can you imagine if an article was posted referring to American Time as a time zone?

What a load of hyperbole. This has nothing to do with the right to remain anonymous online and everything to do with proving that the reviews are fake. This may even relate to some of Yelp's alleged unscrupulous business practices: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimhandy/2012/08/16/think-yelp-is-unbiased-think-again/

I do not share this experience. Typically, when the seat in front of me is pushed back, it collides with my knee-caps, sometimes in a fairly painful manner. After that the flight becomes a few hours of my legs being restricted to one fairly uncomfortable position.

There's a definite difference in this respect between North America and the UK - the UK has an amber "prepare to go" signal on traffic lights, North America does not. I'm pretty sure, just not quite 100%, that this applies to other European countries where I've driven. This is presumably a difference due to the prevalence of manuals in the UK (where some warning to get the car in gear etc. is useful), while the US and Canada have a majority of automatic transmission cars, so the extra signal is not as useful.

In any case, in countries where you are taught to put the car in neutral and turn on the handbrake at junctions, you are given fair warning to get the car ready to move again before the green light.

From the Wikipedia page you linked to:

What are you talking about? I mean is there any need to bring nationalities into this, when they're cleary irrelevant?

The parent to your comment was talking about album sales, whereas you're talking about single sales. That album sales are down and single track sales are up has been known for a while now, and all it really indicatesis that people are consuming music differently now: in single track chunks.

Ditching Darwin for Austen seems a little sad, though Charles has had a good run. Removing Smith in favour of Austen, on the other, just seems like a scenario with no downside... Apart from for the woman campaigning to get Austen on the banknotes in the first place, of course, who gets threatened just for trying to get a critically renowned author some recognition.

I've joked about the same thing: that github is my social network of choice.

Unfortunately, my less technically-inclined friends took that to mean that I had joined a network exclusively for curmudgeons.

On the one hand it seems kind of lazy. On t'other it shows lateral thinking, reuse of existing code and a good choice of tool for the specific requirements of the assignment.

Yeah, I didn't make it clear in my original comment. Especially because I used the 'svn blame' command, as opposed to the less loaded 'svn annotate'.

I need to learn to be clearer in my wording, especially on the Internet, where nobody knows you're a dog.

Not to name and shame, to know who to ask about what they were exactly they were doing when they changed that bit of code. You know, so my fix doesn't break there changes.

Using subversion, specifically 'svn blame' doesn't have such an easy time with whitespace. Sometimes I want to know who changed a line last (and created a bug) and re-indenting significantly reduces the value of that information.