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Decent talent pool. Decent tooling. Been around for long enough that a lot of the quirks of it are well known and documented. Basically it's a blue collar programming language with…

I still am a bit of a 3dfx fanboy. Ended up emailing 3dfx at one stage and got sent a load of posters and case stickers (remember those?). I had a Voodoo Banshee which was a fairly…

I always say if I can reproduce a bug, I can fix it. Hardest thing is reproducing a bug reliably.

I went on a stag do (bachelor party for non-Brits) last year. The groom had just returned from Chicago on a business trip the morning we went away. He brought back a bottle of Malö…

AEB at 62mph is likely to be pretty damn scary. I've experienced it slamming on at slow speeds and it's pretty aggressive.

Not too many even in London really.

+1 for formal methods in Z. I've still got the book at my dad's house. My first year of uni also had a pretty evil pure maths course which was worth a high percentage of the year. …

I'm flying LHR -> MEL on Friday on Singapore Airlines (on a 777 actually for LHR -> SIN). I tend to keep my seat belt fairly loosly fastened throughout the flight. At least once I'…

Have used this for number stations in the past. It's great - amazing what you can still find on shortwave.

I worked for NDS when they were acquired by Cisco. They've spat them back out a few years ago. Not entirely sure Cisco should have got into the video space. I enjoyed Cisco (great …

This is well worth listening to. Great podcast.

Good map. As someone who grew up in Cardiff it doesn't surprise me to see this distribution. A lot of media roles are also billingual in Cardiff. I've got a GCSE in Welsh (having b…

I kind of agree with this. I used to work for a large enterprise software company and I often made the point that you'd have to jump through hoops to get approval to spend a couple…

+1 for an awesome interview experience. I had an offer last year which I didn't end up accepting (for various reasons) but I walked away from the process having actually enjoyed it…

Exactly the same here. I had email hosted with TSOHost here a few years ago and had no end of problems with bounce backs. In the end I moved it all to GSuite for a few bucks a mont…

Likewise, my mum (as British) died at 65 of bowel (again, British, colon otherwise) cancer. Planning on starting to look at private screening from 40 here.

This is a bit (a lot) dodgy. I've had to provide background references for a number of jobs in the past. This could well come back and bite you - what if the person hiring knows pe…

I wonder what is actually causing the error here. Looking at the 2 payloads diff on the site I can't spot anything. It's a weird one that's for sure.

Would it still do DDOS even without the WAF?

Microsoft Regional Director is effectively someone who is an advisor to Microsoft - https://rd.microsoft.com/en-us/about/ .

Runway length at LGW is OK for a 777. I'd guess they knew it was safe and it's easier to deal with a plane full of pax at your originating airport than diverting to STN (where ther…

Apparently there are some companies who are suppliers to these organisations who do pay better, but otherwise, yes. The salaries are pretty poor. I get that some people would want …

I'd guess you might be thinking of the darts game that Playjam had. This was on Sky Digital rather than analogue Sky, so more like 1998-1999. From memory the old analogue system di…

O'Reilly. Pluralsight. Public speaking or presentation course can be good. I've been doing some certs lately. AWS Solutions Architect Associate was about that for a virtual course …

Got to agree. I've hosted instances of PhpBB over the years. It was a good product (this would have been around 2000/2001). I still go on certain forums (e.g. Pistonheads.com) but …