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To be fair the author of this did found two massively successful businesses so I imagine he does understand tackling a business problem.

That applies outside of Scotland as far as I'm aware, whereas in Scotland there is a right to roam on all land as long as you're not disturbing housing/farm activities etc.

That's not far off the same cost as to get to Glasgow from London, looking for tomorrow it's between £55 and £70. Significantly longer though for yourself, the train here is around…

I meant more it's interesting that they're not a member or signed up to something led by big players in AI and operating for AI safety. You'd think that one of, if not the largest,…

I assume it's deliberate that they've not mentioned OpenAI as one of the members when the other big players in AI are specifically called out. Hard to tell what this achieves but i…

I think that's a reasonable heuristic, but I'd also say you have to take into account the human readability aspect of it. It sometimes does make sense IMO to split solely for that,…

Interesting how many people go straight to the cache - seems like we've all been there when we're accidentally overwriting keys with the wrong data! Experience is the best teacher …

The title for this article is misleading. It only says they've agreed to a study to investigate it. There's a world of difference between that and actually approving a 4-day week f…

Got to justify the absolutely massive campus they've built by the Clyde somehow. In my experience, there's been quite the PR push recently on how amazing this new campus is (I'm no…

I've not seen Storm being used anywhere sane for a few years at least now, and from a glance at job postings it looks unlikely. Spark, Kafka Streams etc. are definitely used in a m…

Not just this, but the prevalence of strokes gained being the key metric to focus on for players has opened up a new understanding of what it takes to score well and win tournament…

AWS Console runs in us-east-1 so that points to at least that region having issues IIRC. I am also having Slack issues in EU.

Console is flickering between "website is unavailable" and being up for my team. This is happening very frequently just now, reliability seems to have taken a hit.

I disagree with that. If you go into somewhere as a senior for example, it is not unheard of that a year later you can make a lateral move for 20%+ payrises. I've seen it happen ma…

I think Wenig was also pushed out somewhat in relation to his opinion on the sale of eBay Classifieds - the rumour at the time was that he was very much against it while activist i…

Not the OP but I had to do this when opening a bank account in Germany.

I think a lot of the skills you learn around how you interact with people in a professional setting, developing a sense of when to ask someone for help vs. work through a problem y…

I've started a new job remotely this year with quite a few junior engineers in the team, and I'm definitely finding it's much harder to mentor and make sure that they're taking the…

That's interestingly the opposite of what I've experienced in the UK. I suppose it depends on what type of company you work for, but in my experience those that realise they are a …

I'm not sure if this is referring to the privacy laws or the internet itself, but the internet connectivity in Germany is dreadful in my experience. Capacity is at its limits, to t…

It's not exclusively, but you find a lot of "indie hackers" come up with business opportunities based on following/reading/speak to other indie hackers and then market to other ind…

Not sure of the future of Gumtree in Australia, but they also have a large tech company behind them (at least until next year). eBay Classifieds Group

I don't think it's true that the pay isn't drastically different. I was in the pipeline with Apple recently, and the pay for a sr. eng position was 80k. This is comparable to other…