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Map reduce and filter often are much more readable, but then sometimes a loop is clearer. I often see this when I use resharper's (a c# tool) auto refactor a loop into a linq state…

So what's your alternative to "globalised capital"? No money moves from rich to poor countries?

Some of the NHS health care is shocking. I watched my dad dying on a ward with utterly shit jobs worth nursing staff. After enough of that he ended up in ICU with great care and di…

I worked with contractors based in Denver, their salaries were 3 times mine. I don't think cost of living in Denver is insane? Property prices were I am are insane

Also wages in tech in the EU are laughably bad compared to USA. I'm in the UK, same problem. Yet everyone seems to think that a couple weeks more holiday makes up for it.

Why wouldn't you? The number of EU professionals I've worked with here in the uk over the years is surprising to me, they all left their home countries because their prospects wher…

Until apple and Android made it irrelevant

I think the whole western world has been fed a pile of anti American garbage for a generation. My wife actually said she wouldn't live there because she was afraid of getting shot.…

Of course it is, they are financing your phone which costs money. You are paying extra for the risk, inflation and interest.

Presumably you'll be fine with paying for the reliability? Just because the government demands a company supplies something, it does magically make the cost of supplying it disappe…

I'm 37, I'm starting to get worried about my age being a problem. But to hell with blaming employers who don't want me, it's their call. I think that maybe the actual problem is th…

I'm not against them going to jail. However there is another incentive, it's generally bad for business if your product kills people.

This is seems fair enough to me, it's an attempt to prevent this kind of thing happening again: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-engla...

Yes but it did go into decline for a while until it reinvented itself. It's lost its dominance in OSs and web browsers. Government intervention didn't cause that, free markets did.…

I couldn't agree more. It's a toxic mentality, it allows people to just say successful / rich people must have ripped someone off or just been really lucky. Dealing with fear of fa…

On the programming front, I ve worked as a programmer for 12 years. I consider myself as not smart at all. I worked hard at learning my trade. I'd suggest you take things really sl…

Uk programmer here, late 30s, in the last year or so I've woken up to the fact that we re getting terribly salaries in the uk. Reddit is full of naive europeans who seem to be brai…

I'm not anti Tory, but the crap with the "internet levy" that will be required to police "harmful content" doesn't really send signals to the rest of the world that the UK is a for…