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I have to disagree with your opinion on voluntary layoffs. Here in the UK an employer has to inform the government and go through a mandatory redundancy process when laying off mor…

If they're cutting staff at that quantity it's almost certainly to save money, and the money saved from laying off employees shouldn't be going towards funding new hires.

I would love to be able to filter results to remove articles written purely for affiliate links - if I'm looking for a new washing machine, I want an impartial article from someone…

I caught it in September when numbers here in the UK were quite low. I'm not sure how I caught it. I had left my car into the garage a few days before I showed symptoms and had to …

The thing that stikes me about the naming of variants, is that to your standard person on the street, referring to the variants by the place they were first identified is going to …

That's not true. While most voters from low income households supported leaving the EU (as shown in the report you linked), 59% of leave votes came from middle class voters and onl…

Uber have talked about their internal chat app, uChat. When OP says they built their own internal chat app, that's not entirely accurate - uChat is built upon Mattermost. https://e…

This is very similar to Joel Spolsky's advice that you should never just chuck code out and and start from scratch. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

While some advertisements may be dishonest, I don't feel that that can be said of advertising. Advertising is absolutely designed to part you of your money, but that isn't necessar…

That was something I picked up from one of the more experienced software devs when I started - in his code there were far fewer comments saying "This section does x and y", than th…

The comment you replied to is correct based on what you said - if you start in a state in permanent summer time, travel south to a state in permanent winter time, keep travelling s…

I first came across Petzold this weekend while watching a talk by Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin on the future of programming. Martin was discussing Turing's paper "On Computable Number…

Public Relations - how they are perceived by the public. This was seen as a risky move because it had the potential (which Facebook realised and decided to press ahead with anyway)…

You can appeal against a conviction, but unless new evidence comes to light, a non-guilty verdict closes the case. At least that's my understanding.

Yes, the core idea of looking for someone who neither says they can do something difficult really simply nor says they can't do it is sound. It's the idea of requesting the contrac…

While the UK is still part of the EU, will there be a case to have your history removed under the new GDPR legislation?

My priorities are to ensure the health and comfort of myself and my family. If "the comfort of a steady salary" appears to be the best way to achieve that, then I will be happy "fo…

This is very similar to the Amazon Go store currently being trialed by Amazon employees in Seattle. You check in to the store upon entering using the Amazon Go app, pick your items…