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That is because the 140 EUR grant is of significantly less value, which is absolutely wonderful motivation to do things properly. I applaud what they do in Finland.

Firstly it's not a fantasy unless you make it one. As someone brought up on a shoestring budget in one of the worst bits of London, I can assure you that in the real world, class i…

See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5818507 I try to live a life which is entirely ethical and I treat people with respect where earned. I will not be an apolog…

And by making the distinction of working class are you not contributing to that bias? I treat all people as classless. The people described by myself are not bound by class, but by…

I agree entirely. I did not state it was citable or sound, but an observation. The observation/hypothesis is valuable as it's the starting point for a discussion. Presenting the ex…

Yes indeed. Philosophical note: 1. I think things that are desirable are easy to offer citations for because there is a motivation to promote the desirable. 2. Conversely, things t…

Yes it is unsupported. I admit that. But it's clearly observable. I'm sure many people here observe it regularly. You specify the problem the wrong way around. The women got pregna…

I know the differences, probably more than you realise. I presented a hypothesis, which you can turn into a theory by sitting outside ASDA for a bit with a clipboard and a copy of …

Not everything needs citation in the form of a survey or scientific paper. I doubt the results of it would be honest as the people who they would be surveying have an interest in l…

Stand outside ASDA in Feltham or Hounslow and observe.

There are very few tech products without something Foxconn in them. Even my old Lenovo T61 had most of the parts stamped Foxconn.

This is because their JS implementation is a wrapper around WinRT rather than anything close to what anyone else is doing. It also isn't very JavaScripty. WinRT is a particularly o…

They should do this in the UK. From observing the locals, the maternity grant (until yanked by the government) was used to buy designer gear for the mother, cigarettes and some exp…

Very true. It took me 9 months and 45 calls to support to get a relatively simple regression in IE9/ClickOnce fixed and all we got was a fucking registry fix that we now have to sh…

Good plan! Never thought of that!

I've got an 8 core 3.0 Xeon with 32Gb RAM and Samsung 840. It's still slow. It's more latency than long waits but it's enough to stop me using it.

To be honest I dragged a 1.5MLOC .Net 1.1 Web Forms and SQL 2000 application up to 4.0 and SQL 2008 R2 last year. It wasn't that much of a problem. It took about 3 days and most of…

Try R# with VS in a solution with 54 projects and ~ 1.5MLOC... It stinks!

The Windows kernel is C++. From what I've seen (shared source), it's mainly C-style C++ though. I didn't see a single template or a class in my travels.

Did we really expect any other endgame?

Isn't this just a "job agent term" for generalist?

C is easy to get right. Its also easy to get wrong. To be honest, most holes I've seen over the years are above the level of the language and are down to the implementation or desi…

It is right not wrong. Being decoupled from the machine by several layers of abstraction means you're just rearranging the furniture rather than whittling it out of wood. I hate re…

There are loads of companies already doing this, at least in the UK. They find the holes and you fix them.

I've done contract work in London and had several permanent positions over the last 15 years. That's a BIG chunk of it unfortunately. The rest is "big names", "trendy startups" and…