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Staff SWE at Google UK can get you to 400k+ (depending on stock grants / stock price gains).

I've been doing this for nearly five years now, so I've gradually built up a system that works for me. Usually I'll use one of two devices: * Asus Chromebook Flip (C100PA) * iPad P…

I'm looking forward to Google opening an office in Bristol. Until then, I'm stuck on a daily commute from Bath to London. The commute sucks, but I couldn't stand living in London (…

Skynet, like the UK military satellite comms network? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellites)

Pro-tip: you can use "brew info [package-name]" to lookup the post-install info that flashes up after a homebrew install. $ brew info cassandra cassandra: stable 2.1.2 http://cassa…

Same here. I'm using the mobile web versions of Facebook, Twitter and G+ on my iPad and iPhone and I'm not (yet) missing any of the features of the native apps.

There's also j2objc, another interesting tool for creating a common layer for iOS and Android apps. https://github.com/google/j2objc I'm playing with it for a personal project, and…

The last paragraph of the article: "Because of its sample size (1,801 people) and choice of topic, Pew’s study might not be a fully accurate example of social media’s silencing eff…

.. not to mention that there's a lot of overlap between aerospace and F1 engineering. Plenty of the engineers (even the trackside ones) started out studying aero engineering.

+1, I live in a semi-rural town of ~10k residents and I get 75Mbps / 15Mbps fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband. The infrastructure is owned by the incumbent monopoly provider, but the …

+1, I live in a semi-rural town of ~10k residents and I get 75Mbps / 15Mbps fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband. The infrastructure is owned by the incumbent monopoly provider, but the …

Premium economy? I usually fly between LHR and SFO on BA premium economy. It's usually sub-£1000. Compared to economy, the seats are wider with more leg room and the meals are bett…

Google Webmaster Tools' "Fetch as googlebot" feature is useful in debugging these problems. See http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/fetch-as-googlebot-tool-hacked...

Looks like a hacked wordpress install. http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/09/four-malware-infec...

I'm reading on an iPad, so the risk of system infection is negligible. However, I just switched on my home VPN and the links disappeared. Time to talk to someone in netops, methink…

Is this a test of whether anyone actually reads these articles? Every 3rd paragraph has a viagra spam-link inserted in the middle of a sentence.

Summary: Unit testing is hard, so it's not worth the effort.

I think many go programmers would disagree with you, and C++ programmers who've discovered clang-format too. Bikeshed discussions about formatting quickly go out the window when yo…

How about taking a look at the Google ObjC style guide? https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/objcguide... I'm not convinced by private properties either. Use ARC and …

Exactly my first thought too!

I wonder why Google's Closure Compiler hasn't taken off more in the open-source world. At the cost of some mandatory comments to help the compiler, it's able to analyze and remove …

Don't forget, those teenagers entire families are now on Facebook. I concede that the actions of teenagers might be an indicator of what's to come, but the world has hardly 'moved …

FYI, there's a typo in the code screenshot. s/versoin/version

31, and the oldest I can find is from mid-1998. A small piece of C++ code to replicate the "cool" then-new docking windows in Visual Studio. http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/w-d/docking…

This argument applies to any web service. There's no guarantee that a $5/yr paid web service isn't profiting from your data the same as anyone else. Why only make $5 when you could…