The key missing word here is "yet". If you stop employing people to maintain a big office building, then for a while nothing much will seem wrong. But issues do start to crop up, and some o… (View Post)

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)