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Does anyone know if there is a uk company that offers this service?

I was speaking more about the use of the term advantage by OP. When these types of discussions arise people often talk about how it's unfair about giving someone an advantage over others.

The problem is it doesn't go any deeper than the surface, about the underlying advantage that some parts of society have that others don't. It simplifies the discussion into an almost child like argument about who gets the sweets and assumes that it's a zero sum game.

I am a strong believer in meritocracy, but I also am aware of the actually reality of society means that it doesn't perfectly exist. I feel that if people feel strongly about meritocracy they should be open to increasing the funnel of people that can participate.

As other have said this problem doesn't seem to be self correcting in the tech industry, and if promoting someone just because they are female is something people try I don't really have a problem with it. I have seen many people in my career in this industry promoted for worse reasons.

barriers to starting a company are not based on getting permission, as you rightly say there are other factors such as social economic.

The fact that you were able to start your own company and succeed is a mixture of your upbringing, your standing in society as much as your intelligence and access to capital.

It's a common fallacy to think that just working harder or having the grit to strike out is the only factor. I would suggest that line of thinking would lead to some form of survivorship bias.

I would reflect on the fact that computing isn't just a market based economy. That is just on facet and even then you're assuming that entry to the market is equal.

It's not giving people an advantage, it about giving people equal opportunities to succeed.

Perhaps because that is a different discussion for another forum and this forum is a better fit for discussing Rob's article.

Check out coCoon tech co-working space while you're there: http://www.hkcocoon.org/en/index.aspx

it's only 700 hkd for the week pass.

I suspect you might have heard of him but I found Bennie Lewis' blog to be really good in my own language learning:

http://www.fluentin3months.com/home/

My wife who speaks a couple of languages says that to really ingrain it you must think in the language, don't think in english and then translate.

I've not used it personally but the have heard good things about http://www.huddle.com/

I would be interested in looking at that if you opensource it.

Have a look at Uncle Bob's fitness app, IIRC this is written using the red green refactor cycle, in fact I would suspect most of his other code on github will be the same.

https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse

This is true, I live in Hong Kong. It's easy to find yourself in an apartment, internet/phone, electricity provided by LKS. Then you go downstairs to the shopping centre that's part of your apartment and the food store, the pharmacy and the shopping centre itself are also owned by LKS.

Hong Kong, is owned by a bunch of families, it's as far from a free market and is more like a capitalist aristocracy.

In Hong Kong, most people don't leave home till they marry.

Also it helps when you're able to build a huge monopoly in hong kong http://www.economist.com/node/413357

Can you not just wait and transfer your coins to your own private wallet and then sell them on another exchange?

Thats because NServiceBus is a Service Bus and not a broker: http://www.udidahan.com/2011/03/24/bus-and-broker-pubsub-dif...

For HA you simply run a distributor process for each logical event on windows cluster and add as many worker nodes as you see fit.

Because NServiceBus uses the store and forward pattern if a NServiceBus process/machine hosting it goes down, you are still guaranteed the eventual delivery of messages when the process/machine is resumed.

NServiceBus is a very different technology than biz talk, I wouldn't call it Middleware.

It basically a message based event driven transport layer. By its very nature it's extremely easy to scale horizontally.

Closest I know of is IntelliTrace: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dd264915.asp...

In Hong Kong and mainland china whatsapp is pretty ubiquous,its shown on adverts and business cards as a contact method. Some mobile carriers make whatsapp data traffic free on most plans.

Also the big reason in mainland china is that Facebook is blocked there :)

Have a look at the Zenbook UX32VD, http://zenbook.asus.com/zenbook/?c=prime_ux32

It's full HD 1080p IPS screen, switchable intel HD/ nvidia graphics, expandable RAM and HD. I've had one since November and find the keyboard and build quality to be excellent.

Since I bought it I've upgraded the HD to a SSD and add a additional 8gb for ram to bring it up to 10gb total.

Linux compatibility seems good http://www.linlap.com/asus_ux32vd

Stackexchange already has a site that is for these kind of questions: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/

The Iraq did not have approval of the UN.

Personally when I saw the change I just hit the back button. I really hate this kind of behaviour. Reminds me of http://www.experts-exchange.com/ shenanigans.

This application is being written on the WinRT platform which is a wrapper around win32 for writing windows 8 applications using HTML and Javascript. it's not really a browser application, it just happens to use html and javascript as it's UI layer hence it doesn't use things like localstorage or web sql etc.

Are you guys aware of powwownow? it's has voice/video conferencing. Although not exactly like your product, it does share some similarities.

http://www.powwownow.co.uk/

it also is Cantonese slang for penis

I think screencasts are as good as the presenter. The best screencasts are much like a good 10 min pitch. They should tell me the problem, show me the solution and leave me excited and wanting to find out more!

One of my favorite ever screencasts was Rob Conery's on BDD with C# with the MSpec framework[http://blog.wekeroad.com/mvc-storefront/kona-3/] It was put together so succinctly that it really clicked with me what BDD was all about and I came away wanting to download the tools and learn more!

If your screen cast is on Vimeo you could add the little bookmarks on the video time line. This could help users skips to sections appropriate to them.

This looks interesting, I like the combination of drums, synth and woodwind.

I think this would be a great instrument to use if you were playing electro or other types of sampled music live as you would be able to actually play it, and not spend most of the gig standing behind a laptop and some synths.

I can't champion this book enough, if you're doing C# stuff then this book is a must have.

If the code has any unit tests starting from there can be a great diving point.