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I have often wondered whether UK Immigration Officers have a quota to meet...

It's easily as useful a comparison between any smartphone and a mainframe.

I have regularly wondered how all these Hedge Funds (let alone the Banks) are doing so well without some kind-of inside information and/or some means to "generate interest or conce…

There is a continuing misunderstanding between "suits" and dev's, where most dev's _do_ learn the business through experience, but the suits continually choose not to, and instead …

In the UK and NZ, the vaccine is only given to those at-risk from Chickenpox. Children don't receive it as a matter of policy, and I don't believe adults who've never caught the di…

Strictly speaking, it's not the same as Chickenpox, especially in symptoms and effect.

I agree. It's a little like a Java programmer knowing JVM bytecode: definitely not _needed_ but you'll be much better at understanding why (for example) some code structs are more …

Years ago, before ActiveRecord, I started writing my own ORM for Ruby. I got a reasonable way into it, too. I gave it up, because I realised that it was much, much simpler to write…

Was it really "giving" or did they just get an arrangement to be able to use them "defensively" against other patent suits?

Not quite: businesses (or corp's) are effectively made of groups of people. These particular groups seem to want to act more psychopathically / self-interested than an individual m…

Isn't this part of the reason for references, but more importantly: probation period ?

I would say a Senior iPhone Dev in London would be £60k+ but since the number of com's who need ObjC is pretty small (even though London has a lot of Mobile dev's) then I wouldn't …

I remember payments in NZ being <1 min -- possibly seconds -- 10-15 years ago, as there was a single clearing-house for all EFT, nationally.

Apple seems to have a policy of regularly testing the water for further lock-down/lock-out/lock-in. Almost as if they think because an awful lot of people have accepted it on iTune…

Don't wait. The usual effect of such misdirected management behaviour is most of the good/talented/valuable people leave earlier than later, as they smell blood in the water.

Where's the evercookie-kill script?

Citrix IOS? Seriously?

For a while, maybe 5+ years ago (7? I can't remember clearly) it seemed like Perl was stagnating a little. This was about the time Ruby really seemed to take off, and some neat Pyt…

I kind-of agree with the idea of no damages -- where I assume you mean compensation to the aggrieved party -- and instead a fine (or other punishment) for illegal activity, collect…

Worse, the arguments seem to be based on "potential" rather than "fact". It seems to me non-"internet" piracy cases are largely based on hard evidence, and when they try to include…

I have yet to hear a solid argument for 75-year "ownership" of a copyright. I also view the ability to sell the copyrights themselves (patents, etc, etc) to a third-party as very d…

That's just slang! You can't actually steal an idea! Once someone has made it possible for the idea to be shared -- even if they wrote it down and locked it in their safe -- then t…

What's interesting is that iTunes would never have existed if not for MP3 downloads, but also because of Napster-style ease-of-access to a large catalogue of music. This popularity…

But isn't legal (even now) in the UK. Though I believe they're reviewing copyright law, atm.

It's still not theft -- i.e. taking something from. It's explicitly a lack of compensation, which is still not "taking something from" -- though there are laws which require compen…