Quite interesting review of Google practices, compared to Microsoft . While reading, don’t forget, that it was compiled by Microsoft people.

An interesting article in The Ecomist - drug dealing analyzed just as any regular industry. More entertainment, than a real business case.

If you are really interested, here is the full 2007 budget speech, given by Gordon Brown on 21st of March 2007

In this my eleventh Budget, my report …

I am quite disappointed with the knowledge demonstrated by wannabe C++ programmers today. Hardly anyone knows what

#x

and

x##y

preprocessor directives …

Have a look at the new project - Burstsort .

Quoting from Wikipedia:

Burstsort and its variants are cache-efficient algorithms for sorting strings and …

The sums are getting bigger and bigger .

If we want to be more environmentally friendly, we should consider reusing our glasses in pubs. When you order the same type of beer/wine/whatever, …

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A friend of mine told me an interesting story. A trader in bank X tried to make a profit, building a private portfolio with some new financial product …

Apparently, JD Whetherspoon shares fell , after the company issued a profits warning. The pub management firm is worried, that the smoking ban, to be …