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exactly. UK has fierce banking competition and you have so many digital banks that compete with the brick and mortar and beat them on pretty much everything except for not having a…

As I grow older I witness that the people that built the computing industry are slowly but surely fading out. The next generation now stands on their shoulders and keeps on buildin…

IME BigQuery is one of the very few reasons to recommend GCP over AWS.

agreed. You are under huge distress and don't have a viable alternative and your life is in danger and you sign what is really, a contract to pay with the amount to be paid being b…

not only there are options, but there is excellent transportation in London, especially compared to the driving hell because of the all day traffic all around Bay Area. Another par…

Admittedly, all of these are real issues. The thing is that for a company with 1.816 trillion (1816 billion!) market cap as of today, all of these issues are easily solvable. But i…

RIP John, the world will miss you. You surely lived a full life.

Wirex

McK will bill $3 million, the 23 year old may get at best same as your $100k salary. Which makes everyone feel sour, esp the youngster for getting 3% of what their boss charged the…

same here. Admittedly it supports just a few language pairs but the translation quality is consistently and considerably better than Google Translate and other major offerings.

Copenhagen is bike friendly. Amsterdam is bike friendly. NYC and especially hilly SF are neither bike friendly. At best they are bike tolerant :)

we all remember and respect 15-213 :)

Being in a similar position, I wanted to post but your post is spot on. ML and DS have basically lifted Python and by association Django quite a lot...

from a comment from tfa: 'Now if you’re really tired of seventies tech you should try fish.' Really, that's pretty much it.

That exactly. Which is probably the same thing that several others have pointed out.. A 100$ shirt will have huge logos all over the place because the market segment it targets are…

this is just a generalisation... made in's perceived value is different in high end clothing, to manufacturing, to fine perfumes, to high tech.

seriously, FFS these are guidelines that we use for not-remotely-that-sensitive-data and equifax that literally... "You had one job to do, protect our data" Can't follow? This is j…

Coming from the southern part of Europe, here in the UK groceries (save for Whole Foods 5pounds a bite..) are almost always tasteless. Except for the apricots at the Turkish deli d…

it is possible, but most of the times it's not anonymous. I.e. after an anonymous survey for some ridiculous "company of the year" award (by a third party mind you..) it was identi…

GDS is doing an exemplary job on gov.uk websites. There are actual user groups with accessibility challenges that will evaluate web services in the UX labs before release. Service …

SuperChat sounds like Jackass coming to Youtube, can't wait ! Parker/Stone satirised it 17 years ago in Fat Camp episode, it's gonna be so awesome :)

but who cares when 99% of people at work, in conferences and cafes have Apple Macbook (Pro)?

Greece is building a space program, so why not Ethiopia too? :)

reddit may be valued at 600 million (orl?) but steve huffman's net worth is in the millions/tens of millions at most. you wouldn't call him super rich when he can barely afford a n…

can't you sell a future security on your shares though? This is a "promise" to sell at some point in the future, can't see how can this be prohibited.