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Naw, Alec Guinness lived quite close to me, near Petersfield in Hampshire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersfield,_Hampshire . Never met him, but I think he's on record as describ…

My father is a retired South Wales steelworker - he worked in the Hot Mill, which is where you put slabs of steel in, and take huge coils of hot rolled steel out ( http://en.wikipe…

Is this some kind of RHEL marketing thing? Help me out here, I'm rather lost.

Nope, I don't work there. Suggest you ask them :)

These people: http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/ produce a compiler, tools etc that run the language of SAS. (disclaimer: I interviewed there last year)

"Censorship is the mother of metaphor" - Borges

I think that it's terrific but does a disservice to Illustrator. It's terrific because you've built it - and what's there, works, wonderfully - but does a disservice to Illustrator…

What a bunch of spoiled, whining brats! Sure, you can only code for 4-6 hours a day, but why not honor your contract by spending that other 2 hours mentoring less senior people, tr…

Yeah, you're right, but I'm stubborn. I won't move to where the work is - I have a family. I'm much much more productive if I'm actually interested in what the client is doing (...…

There is a market in the UK for good technical writers. It's not as sexy as development (whoever heard of a technical writer making the cut as a YC founder?) but it pays the bills.…

In the UK, my lowest rate is equivalent to $75 an hour. I can read and write code, but most of my work is documentation related. I, too, like to tinker around with my own projects,…

"Tapjoy is a mobile advertising and monetization platform whose unique Mobile Value Exchange model allows users to select personalized advertisements with which to engage for virtu…

Marketing, it seems, is all about spamming HN with ads for a book about marketing.

Council House[1] And Violent This is not the original etymology (see other replies) but I have heard it explained thus many times. [1] Council House - A UK property owned by 'the c…

But unlike all the other resources, a resource that lives, thinks and judges people as they are done by.

Trouble is, I think LinkedIn is a cancer. You know, I've worked with some pretty decent people, but I've often cringed to see their extravagant self descriptions on LinkedIn. No wa…

Crocodile tears, I suspect. Based on multiple past experiences, I'd be a little reluctant to trust a recruiter who described himself on his blog thus: "Over a career spanning thirt…

In fairness, his medical school helped him to study part time while he played rugby - but hey, there's no need to dilute a great achievement.

Nice. It reminds me a little of Prograph/Prograph CPX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prograph

On a related but tangential theme, I once started an argument by claiming that Japanese culture does not support the emergence of strong individuals. Perhaps, in electronics as in …

SEEKING WORK - UK(South)/remote Freelance technical and marketing writer. I enjoy working with startups and anything that gets me close to the code. Understand Python, Java, C#, Ru…

I concur, having worked in customer-facing roles for 2 of the 3 cited organizations in the 80s.