"Despite my initial displeasure at having StackOverflow posts flagged as off-topic or conversational, I now appreciate the genius behind the decision. While conversational posts are a great way to support the first person to ask a question, they are a very poor way to support the next thousand that Google the same problem. Not even the ability to move a helpful answer to the top of the post seems to make forums as instantly useful as a StackOverflow post.

I think it is time to accept that, for developer related issues, the QA format so zealously promoted by StackOverflow has won, providing…

> Antarctica is the only continent yet to be reached by a submarine telecommunications cable. All phone, video, and e-mail traffic must be relayed to the rest of the world via satellite links that have limited availability and capacity. Bases on the continent itself are able to communicate with one another via radio, but this is only a local network. To be a viable alternative, a fiber-optic cable would have to be able to withstand temperatures of −80˚ C as well as massive strain from ice flowing up to 10 meters per year.

> Financial traders and law firms are set to benefit from a new low-latency network between London and Hong Kong, which can conduct data on a round trip from Europe to Asia in around 176 milliseconds.

The cable network, run by UK-based trading technology company BSO Network Solutions, has been in place for some time, but previously had to route around large parts of Russia, due to difficulties laying fibre in that country.

However, a new lower latency and higher availability ‘Transit Mongolia’ connection has helped to reduce the time of a round trip by more than 20 milliseconds during the…