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Would be really interesting if people could add their location. Seems like those in US have really long journeys to work?

Thanks - that's an interesting article, although the key quote from the original paper doesn't really help make the case: > The only thing that can be said with any certainty, is t…

Thanks for the analogy, but this is missing the point - this thread is about the opposite - real, verifiable, experience.

Explaining the impact of technical debt to someone non-technical who hasn't experienced it first hand is almost impossible (e.g. "why didn't you just do it properly the first time?…

Co-founder of YunoJuno here. I thought I'd chip in on a general point (I won't attempt to answer specifics here as I think that's probably inviting trouble for someone like me, wit…

We (yunojuno) use the following (+ other stuff - https://www.yunojuno.com/colophon/ ) * BitBucket (core app, private) * GitHub (FOSS projects, public) * Trello - tracking progress …

> The use case for these magic methods might seem small, and that may very well be true. I won't spend too much more time on reflection magic methods because they aren't very impor…

I did some JavaCard development on a project probably ten years ago - and the highlight was meeting the "Head of SIM" at a major network, being told how many times a day everyone's…

It's a bit late for you to enter, unfortunately, but the UK does have something like this. I had the great pleasure of sponsoring a team in the Young Rewired State "Festival of Cod…

That's him - Sir Trevor is a much loved British personality (ex-news anchor); he's enough of a fixture to have been parodied for many years by Lenny Henry (a British comedian) as S…

In the UK there is a scheme called SEIS (Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme) which gives investors 50% tax relief on equity investments up to £100K per annum. This is great for star…

> "Things got confusing for a few years (till about 2005)" They weren't that confusing - remember the original "dotcom boom" (and bust) was in the 90s, not the 2000s - and although…