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One of the issues is that you can't watch what you want on one paid for service. I would happily watch my football team play on the telly if I could watch all the games for a reaso…

Nightingal, and Robertson before her, argued for better designs in hospitals to overcome these issues. We are over 150 years on from this arguement which has already been proven. U…

I think the more interesting question is how much longer does oracle have and at what point does a hostile takeover make sense. Their databases are heavily used in government, bank…

I think it's a reasonable idea. It's mostly going to affect the "luxury" brands who attempt to limit price reductions. Perhaps it might encourage producers to do smaller runs to co…

I'd argue that it has failed in some organisations. DevOps for me is embedding the operations with the development team. I still have operations specialist, however, they attend th…

I was very specific in using the word generally. I taught a mixture of computer science and electronic engineering students. About three to four times more electronic students were…

The issue with the software team using an FPGA is that software developers generally aren't very good at doing things in parallel. They generally do a poor job in implementing hard…

Are we making a joke about software developers chance of getting any of the nine to sleep with them? You can't give birth to a baby in one month using 9 women.

I was asked to sign off on an R&D tax claim for my team's work. I reviewed it and said no. Was then sent to a meeting with the accountants who explained the claim was based on what…

I created an account because I didn't have one. I just thought I'd correct a comment which was ignoring what actually happens in the UK. We have wild herds. In the Highlands they c…

Visit Scotland. We've plenty of wild deer. There are even herds in Glasgow. Highlands are covered in them. We have road signs to warn drivers.