Mauricebranagh

Sorry Doug how did you get so brain washed its the employers responsibility to provide this, you know they should be inspecting your home for H&S

And when I worked in high end rnd if we brought kit on behalf of a client to use on their projects we charged them AND A 25% MANAGMENT FEE.

The company is not your friend as people often say on here but buying equipment for them is OK FFS

There are specific carve outs in employment law and car insurance for commutes. Try using your personal vehicle for work with out additional have an accident and your insurer will wash their hands of you.

Your literally saying that giving your employer money is a good idea.

I "invested" my commute savings savings in a Tudor GMT watch my ISA and some bullion

Why not in the UK jobs in London factor in the extra required for commute and housing costs.

I reckoned that it would be £10k post tax just for the additional cost of commute (65 miles)

So your buying a "4k Monitor" and office equipment for your employer - how generous.

Or are you renting them access to your equipment :-)

Training to detect UseNet kooks should not be that hard doing it on just keywords is just stupid.

Sounds like make work for cops to me.

And if more housing was built it would be snapped up by speculators - is a bit like building better roads =to reduce congestion.

And as a senior your quite often working with several external teams and having some meetings FTF produces a massive productivity boost

We are talking Months and Months" by stopping other teams going of at a tangent or flat out just not doing what they are told.

Then you'd just get people gaming the system or fake diploma mills - the rise of paper MBA's is one example.

And how do you make sure your getting students on Merit and not on wealth or social status how do you get the self taught Steve Woznick from say Nigeria, Keynya or Argentina

In the UK one establishment in London was shut down as they found a massive number of their "students" working in restaurants in brick lane.

My thought as well I suspect they thought they would catch a bunch of trafficked people well at least they didn't Get Prti Patel down for the photo op.

Tommy Shelbys Grandsons and Greatgrand sons :-)

Hey BBC want to hire me as technical consultant for the show

Bit odd the Cops didn't wait intel the premises had visitors inside would could have been arrested.

Stealing her Majesties electricity back in the day

Probably a good reason not to use MAC as development platform.

The last straw for me was being unable to do something simple like install vey common Perl packages natively via CPAN.

Users problems loading all those bloated JavaScript heavy sites

I have seen ads for investment trusts in the UK in railway stations, Janus Henderson in this case. That was a for an investment house not and individual security.

I have had several of their trusts in my portfolio for decades now.

Well hundreds of years of bridge disasters, fatalities and some times bad poetry [https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/tay-bridge-dis...] is a harsh teacher.

I remember in college (mech ENG BTECH) I had a coursemate who's day job was a programmer on the CNC side.

She mentioned that this had happened to a v high end CNC machine the cutting tool after a power cut went straight to the home position very $$$$$$$

At my place we had a computer controlled wave tank and as the guy I shared an office with said you could program the ram to go full travel in zero time which would have flooded the lab.

Its the same in the UK but the company and union will work together - not sure what your point is.

I have worked on a successful UK recognition campaign BTW

How else do you get recognition ?

Are not the red unions the communist one :-)

France has multiple versions of unions based on politics for those that didn't know.

Try walking onto a building site and not wearing a hard hat or safety boots ands high viz.

Its recognition for representation its a first step

Pre entry closed shop is illegal in the UK

Well as one of the aims as I understand it for Julia was as an alternate to Fortran.

You should consider your self lucky when I started the compile link process took a while and that is assuming you had real time access.

I recall one of my colleagues who was running her code on an ICL at AWE (Underwater Weapons Establishment) coming into the terminal room logging in and sighing "48 jobs in GEORGE ahead of hers.

A year later we brought a Pr1me Super Mini which made things a lot faster.

Back then it was a FAB - does seem excessive I have had a couple of interviews (both avowed jobs) like that.

Huntings wouldn't even let me in the main building and Hanslope Park I was escorted (its much nicer than its description in the laundry files)

In the US (and associated territories) I think you mean.

Yeh when I switched for work, I though this is in some ways worse than filemanger in windows 3.1 !

I kind of wanted it to be a Wallace and Grommet crossover with Breaking Bad.