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I take a different view. For a lot of candidates that I've interviewed in recent years, they made the decision to move to London, and _then_ decided to apply to us. Some of the bes…

Indeed. I've lived in the UK my entire life, and I've only ever heard "sorry" used to mean "excuse me, can I get past please?" in and around London. It still sounds weird to me. Wh…

In my father's accent/dialect (South Wales), the number seven is monosyllabic: it sounds more like "sevn" (with the v pronounced quite softly). The number "eleven" is similarly mon…

One thing that I heard from folks who do development for retro Atari platforms is that the 68k support in GCC has been getting worse as time has gone on, and it's very difficult to…

What happened? Did they stop using FreeBSD? Did they continue to use it but jsut stop contributing?

I'm not familiar with the iOS 20. What is meant by "non-notarized websites" and what did Apple do?

My favourite example of this sort of redundancy is the fact that there are numerous rivers in England called the River Avon. Avon is believed to come from the Proto-Brythonic word …

What differences do you think you'd see if ARM directly sold a silicon product?

What does "AEism" mean in this context?

I played Ur-Quan Masters for the first time earlier this year. Despite its age, I found it to be one of the finest games that I'd ever played. The story, in particular, is just per…

> I look at welsh and still go wtf lol Ironically, Welsh is a much simpler language than Irish, and easier to learn for an English speaker. Almost completely regular orthography, m…

What is it that makes USB perfectly fine for spinning rust but not quite ideal for SSDs? I've been booting a couple of Pi 4s from USB SSDs for a while, in order to avoid relying on…

What is it that would make big moons of terrestrial inner planets vanishingly rare? And how likely is it that a planet without a large moon would fail to retain a short day? Mars h…

What is meant by 'a bit "FC"' in this context?

Many thanks. I did use gedit for a while, though I confess I never became as fond of it as I had been of NEdit. It does tick the "uncomplicated text editor" box though.

NEdit was my main editor for a few years after I started using UNIX in the late 90s but couldn't get the hang of vi and emacs. I have fond memories of using it and I'm pretty sad t…

Many thanks, makes sense now.

What does SSBC mean in this context?

What does "T levels" mean in this context?

Why was a 68030 a curious choice for a machine launched in 1988?

You can write apps for an Android phone without jailbreaking/rooting it. And you don't need an expensive license to use Android Studio. Point taken that the barrier to entry is hig…

Why wrongfully? Is there something wrong with the term "micro-computer" that I'm not aware of?

On the subject of TDD, the way I've done TDD has been very similar to the technique described in the article. Work in very small increments, try to get a very thin vertical slice o…

Did I hear that you're looking for an emulator? I recommend Hatari [0] if you want to run games and demos. You'll likely need a TOS ROM image [1]; Hatari comes with EmuTOS, which d…