mollmerx

I'm an avid FT reader and like that description, but have never seen it before. Any chance you can provide a reference?

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Particularly in London, houses are overvalued to the extent that rents are comparatively cheap vs. the rest of the country. Rental yields in London are significantly lower than they are in e.g. Manchester.

The problem is what the question implies, which is that in this workplace the interviewer has until now found it impossible to to convince his manager. This doesn't look good for the interviewer or his manager.

Note that he does not say that he was unable to answer the question. That is a conclusion you jumped to.

They never had control or they never lost it?

Your experience will depend very much on which Terminal you're at (there is a big difference in age and layouts of individual terminals) and, in particular, whether you're forced to switch terminals when transiting.

A good airport for transiting into Europe, and in my view usually more pleasant than London, Frankfurt or Paris, is Amsterdam Schiphol.

Essentially you are being given a copy of a VM that has a copy of Windows pre-installed. It's unlikely (but possible) that Microsoft has granted a license for this. I imagine this is technically not legal, but as you say, unlikely to matter much.

In some jurisdictions penknives are explicitly allowed, due to their blade typically being just under 60mm long.

If you're interested in using a js bookmarklet to bypass, search for "froomens".

I think that's a very interesting question, to which the answer probably depends on how you define 'thrive'.

It seems unlikely to me that any language could become mainstream without being open source. The expectation that a compiler or interpreter should have its source available is only growing.

At the same time, kx's kdb+ is an example of a product that sits in a niche and has generated significant revenue despite being closed source. kdb+ has achieved this by primarily targeting financial services, which is a sector that's less sensitive to closed source than most, and is able to spend money on whichever product solves their problem.

If kerf manages to gain an edge over its competitors for a particular set of problems then sure, it can thrive in the long run the way kdb+ has.

The passwords are generated on the client.

This. I find it surprising that the offender wasn't terminated and incomprehensible that the victim was required to continue reporting to him.

My girlfriend started watching Reign on Netflix when we were visiting the US. She is able to watch it when she visits me in the UK. At her home in Germany it is unavailable.

Absolutely!

Also, the inclusion of non-ASCII operators harkens back to APL. Mind mind isn't yet made up on whether I like this. I anticipate code being easier to read and harder to type. Given perl5's reputation in this regard, I'm optimistic I'll find it to be an improvement.

A "good" language might let you run "5 < x" when x is a list and return a list of booleans. This is what languages in the APL family do.

Thanks for that - I'd never heard of the Igon Value Problem and love the concept.

Why do you not find this believable?

In the UK there is a 24.2 year difference between the life expectancy for men in the Calton area of Glasgow and the national average. I think 33 years for the difference between longest and shortest expectancies in the US sounds about right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_effect

Malta has the reputation of being the easiest to acquire EU citizenship.

It's unlikely that Germany would be one of the easiest, as it requires 8 years of permanent residence to become a citizen. After living in Germany for 8 years it's unlikely you'd still want to move to the UK anyway, as you would have learnt the language and have come to appreciate the higher quality of living.

Yes, ideally those human rights would be provided for by the government. However, there is too much food poverty and lack of medical insurance, even in developed nations, for me to accept this to be the case.

I have a hunch that this may play out in a similar way the Scottish Independence Referendum did last year.

It is in the interest of business and the elite to stay in, while there is significant popular opinion and some small businesses that want out.

If in the run up to the actual vote things are looking close, as they did in Scotland, the side campaigning to stay in will wheel out the big shots (former PMs, captains of industry etc.) and throw money at the problem - resulting, I suspect, in a narrow win to stay in.

Right now we don't even have a date for the referendum, so it's too early to be expending resources like that.

Insider information is known but non-public. I think it's more appropriate to describe this as forward-looking. I.e. we are getting an insight into things that haven't even happened yet!

If the list is known in advance, what about a strategy of sorting the items by absolute value and then summing from smallest to largest?

Would this improve accuracy? If so, by how much?

I agree that doors of parked cars in cities may be a frequent and painful source of cycling accidents. They are not, however, the most dangerous.

The most dangerous source of accidents for cyclists in cities is from passing turning HGVs (trucks) on the inside. The majority of cycling fatalities in London are caused this way every year.

Fortunately these accidents are avoidable through education of both cyclists and drivers, which is more important than wearing a helmet.

I had to look that one up: DWIM = Do What I Mean

In addition, sins are often easy to tax because consumption is rather inelastic, due to there being few alternatives.

Thus, taxes on sins can produce higher revenues than taxes on more price sensitive goods or activities would.

I don't believe it is the case that keeping a property empty of furniture absolves the owner of have to pay council tax: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_Tax#Exemptions]]

Do J and K really do away with notation as a tool of thought?

I don't know much J, but my understanding of K is that it simply maps APL's functionality onto ASCII - and imo this transformation doesn't impact notation, especially once you have spent a decent amount of time reading it.

I believe it's more likely to be partly related to the small console sizes that were typical at the time.

I don't think typing was slower then. And most programming time isn't spent typing.

Germany has many supermarkets. Where in Germany would you say they are "almost nonexistent"?