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To add to this, Indians could choose to return back home to India after their contract was over. Of course lots decided to stay, but some did return.

I am British born, with Trinidadian and Guyanese parents. I've had a very similar experience, not just in tech but throughout all areas of my life. I look Indian, but culturally it…

Allegedly, the Conservatives are against calling a winter election, as their largest cohort of voters (OAPs) are less likely to turn out to vote due to cold weather, darkness etc.

I moved to Maryland from the UK. I was shocked by the standard of the driving test. Literally just going around the block and doing a reverse bay parking. In fact whilst driving th…

And for £18/month. Subscriptions for car features need to die.

In the UK fixed speed cameras are actually painted bright yellow, for the sole purpose of making them more visible to drivers. The reason being is they are positioned in places whe…

Uptrace looks really pretty interesting. I particularly like the query language that you can use to query your distributed trace data. This is the biggest limitation I have found w…

It seems to be a regular occurrence these days. I recently did a take home test for GitHub and got completely ghosted by the recruiter after submitting the test.

Here is a segment that The One Show did on the University in Sheffield one, for anyone who is interested in seeing it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjYAfb_HPk

Would you mind expanding on your plan for traces with jaeger, zipkin etc

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowance…

Obligatory why electronic voting is a bad idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

Looks great, excited to try it out. Just skimming through the Documentation, is there any way to specify the Schema through an API? My use case that I want to define my schema some…

Question, why are mobile phone contracts in the US so expensive? In the UK I pay £17/month for 4G, unlimited data, and free roaming in a whole bunch of countries (including US). An…

Interestingly (in the UK) theft requires that the perpetrator have the intention of "permanently depriving" [1] the owner. So at least in the UK this seems like it wouldn't be coun…

Also a shameless plug for my python library for declarative multi-field validation: https://github.com/shezadkhan137/required It makes it easier to expresses complex inter-field va…

Slightly off-topic, but a great video on why Electronic Voting could be a bad idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI I've wondered before why the UK doesn't have e-votin…

This actually happened to a law firm that I know of. One of their clients had their account hacked and in the client's mailbox they found emails from the law firm including some ou…