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Location: Cambridge UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Docker, Linux systems, Postgres/PostGIS. A little JS/React, C/C++. A long tail of other tech. Résum…

In the UK, high rises are cheap social housing, and rarely have any of these features. (it's possible a few nice ones were built here at there, but those are the exception - people…

They may not become famous in their fields, but they're not going to be worrying about that stuff anyway, so will probably be happier. Which, it turned out for me, was a better goa…

The independent wealth was what allowed them to do science in the first place, nobody else had time or equipment (at least, that's the normal rationalisation).

Those are all things that fall into the second category (subjective stuff I wouldn't call lying). But saying that something works in X case when it doesn't (or even when you don't …

I think I agree more with the parent than with you, particularly in engineering. Lying in engineering means saying anything that's not true with any certainty. I wouldn't hold it a…

See also Rome, which is built on top of about eight more layers of Rome. Residents often get architectural and history students asking to look at something weird in the basement.

When I visited the USA for a conference, I looked up a nice coffee place that was just across the street from the academic campus where I was staying. I went to the nearest crossin…

Similarly, lowest voltage ever to kill someone was 48V.

I learned 4e first (modulo a one-shot 3rd ed game a long time before). I think it has excellent potential as a system that allows you to tell stories, even if the actual game mecha…

Pico Technology | C++/C# Software Engineer, and other roles | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | http://jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a …

Pico Technology | C#/C++ Software Engineer, Software Test Engineer | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | http://jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon be…

Pico Technology | C# Software Engineer, Testers who code, and other roles | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | http://jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico …

Pico Technology | C# Software Engineer, Software Testers (who code a bit), Product Owner | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | http://jobs.picotech.com Establishe…

Pico Technology | C# Software Engineer, and other roles | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | http://jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a lead…

Interesting, but almost certainly a systematic error. We have a lot of experiments over the last few decades detecting neutrinos, and only 2 detecting "sterile" ones (i.e. slightly…

C# Software Engineer | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and da…

C# Software Engineer | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | jobs.picotech.com Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and da…

Or, whenever you get an unexpected email, go retrieve your credentials from your password manager, log in via the main page, and check you can see the message/problem it's referrin…

Not right now, I've just done it enough times. It's often when I want to do a search with 6+ words and all of them are important. But because some of them are e.g. "C++ default con…

I've actually stopped trying to search google for things anymore, because it almost always tried to be clever and totally missed the point. Sounds like I should try "verbatim" too!…

So, you write down the formal requirements you have of an operating system (with aggressive auto-updates enabled, or disabled, as the customer chooses) once, on a piece of paper, a…

Sorry, I proposed unit testing as a real-world formalisation of requirements in an earlier post, and you didn't contradict me. What automated system would you use for this instead?…

There is a big debate about open plan, isn't there? I personally like working in a collaborative environment, at least within the scrum team all focussed on the same goals. I think…