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Craigangus

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Craigangus··on NHS staff should code - Kelsey
Using data smartly in the NHS is key to making it more effiecient.

I witnessed £1 million wasted on writing a piece of software that potentially could have saved the NHS millions but due to bad management and politics was eventually cancelled.

This despite the fact that a NHS board manager had already created a similair system, himself through self taught coding in an Access database

Craigangus··on Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?
Yes, maybe I do! Just need to make the sure you end up being an ageing Rockstar programmer rather than retired Lounge singer
Craigangus··on Programming Interview Questions Stack Exchange Proposal
Not sure about this, could end up being a long list of fizz buzz variants, but would give a place to migrate interview questions away from main stack overflow website
Craigangus··on Benefits of basing your startup in Scotland
"Scotland has a much smaller talent pool of developers than many other countries and that's a fundamental bottleneck for any startup"

It wasn't clear but I was meaning talent to staff the startups, I don't think there would be a bottleneck! It would would stop the drain.

Craigangus··on Benefits of basing your startup in Scotland
I think a lot of the talent is drained away to the South, as bulk of the jobs in Glasgow and Edinburgh are in Finance or public sector.