It's a popular literary theme (Swift famously covered it in part of Gulliver's Travels), but I do wonder how much of the attraction of the "living forever would be terrible" idea … (View Post)

But is that kind of "whip up an amazing proof-of-concept of something you didn't believe possible" engineer what Twitter actually needs? Twitter's a big company with a massive exi… (View Post)

I suspect "most people" don't buy many books at all, and of the remainder, most of those will buy online, and of the rest, at the big chains like Waterstones. Running an independent bo… (View Post)

Tough on cliches, tough on the causes of cliches ? (View Post)

The time available to study in the school timetable is not infiinite, so at some point you have to make choices. You can't study everything important at a level of detail that also teaches the b… (View Post)