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"Really? He's an MP and lives in a world where everyone else pays his bills so what does hell does he know about the real world?" - Andy Davies

"Yawn, and article about exams and everyone comes along and says 'it was much harder in the old days...' My 17 year old is in the middle of her AS levels exams and is having to work much harder than I ever did at A level. As a country we're far too focused on exam achievements rather than giving kids practical skills. Yes brains are important but what you do with them is more important still..." - Andy Davies

"Perhaps you're being a bit harsh, perhaps you're not... One of the more interesting things F5 have done recently is add SPDY support, which is quite handy for people who want to deploy SPDY but don't have a HTTP daemon that supports it yet. Of course I suspect it costs a far bit to add it as a feature to your ADC..." - Andy Davies

"Interestingly TP Link also make a router with a built in battery http://www.tp-link.com/en/prod... Debating whether to get this on the one shown above..." - Andy Davies

"But that's not quite true is it... Thames wanted to build a new resevoir near Reading(?) and it got turned down. What cracks me up is we're supposed to conserve water but Severn Trent wants £40 for a water butt, that's more expensive than Wilkos!" - Andy Davies

"I think the thing you might have missed is performance, in my experience too many front-end devs don't understand the impact they can have on the performance of a website and why latency and things like TCP slow-start are important..." - Andy Davies

"Who will rid us of this outdated and awful institution?" - Andy Davies

"Spot all the people on their favourite hobby horses, business rates, parking charges, out of town shopping centres/supermarkets etc. Only a few people mention landlords unrealistic rents expectations - the high street is no longer a premium location so shouldn't demand premium rents - but commercial landlord would rather have an empty shop than cut their prices. The rise of internet shopping is bound to cause some shops to close too, yet we carry on building more shops! The high street is changing but yet we seem unwilling to adjust, instead we bemoan all the empty shops..." - Andy Davies

"No different to when Labour were in power, the unions had front doors access... Both the unions and big business are bad for Britain..." - Andy Davies

"Not that it really matters but http://www.sitepoint.com/makin... In my performance talks I always recommend people only use GIFs for animated images and PNGs for everything else" - Andy Davies

"On the GIF for IE6 recommendation... From memory PNG8 transparency works fine in IE6 so long as the PNG8 isn't produced using Photoshop (of course you only get one level of transparency but that's the same as a GIF)" - Andy Davies

"The BBC's addiction to the license fee is going to be their ultimate undoing... The advent of Freeview offered the BBC an opportunity to move away from the License Fee towards a subscription model. They refused to take it preferring to repeat the mantra "that everyone loves the BBC and is happy to pay for it" but being completely unwilling to actually test that theory. So we're left with a situation where the BBC has to justify how it spends the licence fee and can't afford to bid high premiums for events (unless it's something like the Olympics) What this means is more and more events will move away from the BBC and the BBC will become less relevant and eventually wither. Sky have proved that subscription TV can work in the UK, all the BBC's current stance does is allow Sky to prosper at the BBCs expense." - Andy Davies

"The BBC screwed F1 fans and then had the cheek to tell us they'd done a good deal for us... They could have decided to give up the contract all together and let C4 or C5 compete for it but no instead they went for a worst of all worlds deal with Sky that screws the ordinary fan over. At the root of the problem is the BBC's addiction to the license fee, if they'd have at least started to support subscription channels in the Freeview change over then they could charge those of us who might want to watch it (and other sporting events) extra. But instead they decide to stick to their soft funding by saying "we're everyone's favorite" a statement they won't put to the test. While they remain addicted to the license fee more and more sport will end up on Sky" - Andy Davies

"And pray tell why does she deserve any more respect than any other member of the human race?" - Andy Davies

"We're constantly reminded by he Monarchist sections of the media that "the Queen has been a grwat servant to us during her life" but yet we're expected to bow and scrape if we meet her #doublespeak" - Andy Davies

"I tend to define / explain it in these terms performance - how quickly does the page load for the user reliability - how often does a page fail to load (for what ever reason) scalability - how to maintain performance and reliability as load increases I do full stack stuff but when I explain to people I make websites faster it's interesting how many say "so you're a server guy?"" - Andy Davies

"The honours system has no credit in the first place and should really be consigned to the bin" - Andy Davies

"There is some stuff going on in the middle - Google's SPDY would be one example" - Andy Davies

"Why are people obsessed with putting an international airport that's on the wrong side of London for most people??? As far as BA having more slots than everyone else at Heathrow is that really a problem?  They're not just competing with other carriers from the UK but with carriers across Europe and with middle-East e.g. Emirates.  When I used to go to India regularly I'd fly LHX -> CGR -> BLR with AirFrance as the timings were better for me." - Andy Davies

"You could consider using membase - which is a memory/disk based cache that uses the memcache API. What I don;t know is how much it keeps in RAM and how much it flushes to disk so you may need to do some research / experimentation" - Andy Davies

""Good artists copy, great artists steal" Steve Jobs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v..." - Andy Davies

"Call this a crazy idea but... The link between Bovine TB and badgers is up for dispute i.e. who's the carrier and who's the source. Culling badgers just leads to more badger movement and so *potentially* a greater spread of disease. We could inoculate cattle but make's their meat unsalable So... Why don't we inoculate badgers instead? If they really are source of the disease in cattle then the level of TB in cattle would fall and so the link could be proven. P.S. Farming is really the last nationalised industry, subsidies to other industries (banking excepted) have all but dies out." - Andy Davies

"Call this a crazy idea but... The link between Bovine TB and badgers is up for dispute i.e. who's the carrier and who's the source. Culling badgers just leads to more badger movement and so *potentially* a greater spread of disease. We could inoculate cattle but make's their meat unsalable So... Why don't we inoculate badgers instead? If they really are source of the disease in cattle then the level of TB in cattle would fall and so the link could be proven. P.S. Farming is really the last nationalised industry, subsidies to other industries (banking excepted) have all but dies out." - Andy Davies

"Any other solution would have been a nightmare for browser users... The other solution would have resulted in users being bombarded with security warnings i.e. cookie permission popups. Continually bombarding users with popups would devalue them as people will just click OK without understanding..." - Andy Davies

"Any other solution would have been a nightmare for browser users... The other solution would have resulted in users being bombarded with security warnings i.e. cookie permission popups. Continually bombarding users with popups would devalue them as people will just click OK without understanding..." - Andy Davies

"If we stop selling it then the DVLA will need less staff, be able to turn some IT systems off so we'll save even more money..." - Andy Davies

"If we stop selling it then the DVLA will need less staff, be able to turn some IT systems off so we'll save even more money..." - Andy Davies

"Did you really mean £150k / year or 15k / year? We should treat pensioners like everyone else, the low 'paid' shouldn't be paying tax and NI regardless of where their income comes from." - Andy Davies

"Did you really mean £150k / year or 15k / year? We should treat pensioners like everyone else, the low 'paid' shouldn't be paying tax and NI regardless of where their income comes from." - Andy Davies

"Why should pensioners who don't currently pay NI be exempt from paying it in the future? Yes there are many pensioners who have low incomes (who could be exempted from the change by raising the tax free allowance) but there are also many pensioners who earn enough to be higher rate tax payers - can you explain why these people should be exempted?" - Andy Davies