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Can confirm, as a Brit, our food is utterly shocking.

It's almost like a workplace Stockholm Syndrome!

We'd been working there for about 2 years at that point, had always got paid, had been the same team since day 0 so we had no reason to doubt the "I'm just waiting for the next inv…

This literally could have been written by any developer in the UK. I think most of us start out like this! I think the best one was a company I worked for in Leeds, it was building…

But... But... But... They're blue...

Wow, who could have possibly foreseen that saying a big "fuck you" to our largest trading partners could have possibly resulted in unfavourable trading conditions for the smaller p…

I used to use privateinternetaccess.com, but various issues with them led me to look for a new VPN provider. I eventually settled on ivpn.net as they have a good selection of exit …

I would consider myself a full stack developer, hell I've even made a decent career out of it. I don't have a CS degree, what I do have is many many years experience. I know HTML, …

"My experience with hosting PHP apps has historicity been one of fending off security issues" Unfortunately PHP seems to have this reputation. It's not so much the language that is…

So is life, what do you do when 2 basic rights clash? It's definitely a tricky question, and I certainly don't have the answer.

I'm glad you did, because I didn't... I'll just pretend like I meant to say it...

This is true, and if you read into it you'll find that it wasn't anything to do with Valve, but actually Bethesda who defined the 25%, they've already profited immensely from the g…

Exactly. People don't mind if companies screw up like this just as long as they know when to admit they were wrong.

I think Valve/Steam (and Bethesda) really screwed up on this one. Although the idea of modders being fairly compensated for their work is a great idea the execution was poor at bes…

I started out in the web development game with no qualifications and no previous experience. I like to think that I've made a pretty decent job of it. If you want to chat some more…

Can I just ask, as somebody who is currently reviewing a book for Packt on the FuelPHP framework, I've found the actual technical content to be quite good. But the foreword and a b…

I read that as "BlackBerry to cut up 40 percent of employees", I'm not sure which headline would be worse....

Hello, Earlier today, we announced that Google Latitude is no longer part of the Google Maps app, and we're retiring Latitude on August 9, 2013. This means that after August 9, you…