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To add to this, Indians could choose to return back home to India after their contract was over. Of course lots decided to stay, but some did return.

I am British born, with Trinidadian and Guyanese parents. I've had a very similar experience, not just in tech but throughout all areas of my life. I look Indian, but culturally it's very different.

Everyone always (perhaps South Asians more commonly) asks where I'm from. I say I'm British. They ask "no, really". I say Trinidadian and Guyanese heritage. They say "you look like you are from India, your family must be from India". It does get a bit tiresome.

The only time it actually _really_ annoys me is when I have to fill out forms with ethnicity. There is never Asian-Caribbean, but always Black-Caribbean, so I always feel that I am never being represented.

Allegedly, the Conservatives are against calling a winter election, as their largest cohort of voters (OAPs) are less likely to turn out to vote due to cold weather, darkness etc.

I moved to Maryland from the UK. I was shocked by the standard of the driving test. Literally just going around the block and doing a reverse bay parking. In fact whilst driving the instructor asked me what the speed limit was on two separate occasions and I answered incorrectly both times! Still passed somehow. This would probably be an immediate fail in the UK.

Also cameras. Not sure about other countries but UK as cameras for EVERYTHING. Speed cameras, average speed cameras, box junction cameras, bus lane cameras, smart motorway cameras, low traffic neighbourhood cameras. When I moved back to the UK from MD I got hit with about 3 tickets in the first few weeks. Definitely changes the way you drive.

And for £18/month. Subscriptions for car features need to die.

In the UK fixed speed cameras are actually painted bright yellow, for the sole purpose of making them more visible to drivers. The reason being is they are positioned in places where you want to force the traffic to slow down for specific safety reasons (merging of two lanes, exits etc). They are not meant to change the behaviour of drivers on the road as a whole.

Uptrace looks really pretty interesting. I particularly like the query language that you can use to query your distributed trace data. This is the biggest limitation I have found with jaeger, lots valuable data is stored in storage, but it's very hard to analyze in aggregate.

For example, a question I want to be able to answer with a query against the distributed trace data: show me the (mean, median) time between a parent http request and a child http request in the same trace tree. As far as I understand, this requires the query language to be able to group by trace id, then be able to identify parent/child relations.

Does the Uptrace query language allow you to do something like this?

It seems to be a regular occurrence these days. I recently did a take home test for GitHub and got completely ghosted by the recruiter after submitting the test.

Here is a segment that The One Show did on the University in Sheffield one, for anyone who is interested in seeing it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjYAfb_HPk

Would you mind expanding on your plan for traces with jaeger, zipkin etc

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.” ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

Obligatory why electronic voting is a bad idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

Looks great, excited to try it out. Just skimming through the Documentation, is there any way to specify the Schema through an API? My use case that I want to define my schema somewhere, and have something which "syncs" the it with GraphCMS, is this possible?

Question, why are mobile phone contracts in the US so expensive? In the UK I pay £17/month for 4G, unlimited data, and free roaming in a whole bunch of countries (including US). Anecdotally, when I roam in the US the speed is faster than my SO who lives there.

Interestingly (in the UK) theft requires that the perpetrator have the intention of "permanently depriving" [1] the owner. So at least in the UK this seems like it wouldn't be counted as theft.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/crossheading/de...

Also a shameless plug for my python library for declarative multi-field validation:

https://github.com/shezadkhan137/required

It makes it easier to expresses complex inter-field validation rules, and is meant to be used with other validation libraries.

Slightly off-topic, but a great video on why Electronic Voting could be a bad idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

I've wondered before why the UK doesn't have e-voting, and after watching it is sort of seems obvious. With traditional voting, it can easily be changed on a small scale, but is very hard to do in a meaningful way. Whilst with e-voting, its almost just as much effort to change on a small scale as a bigger scale, with much fewer people being involved.

I particularly like the idea that the reason we use pencils is as a protection against somebody replacing pens with ones with invisible ink. Not sure if this is true though.

This actually happened to a law firm that I know of. One of their clients had their account hacked and in the client's mailbox they found emails from the law firm including some outstanding bills payable to the firm. The attacker then spoofed an email from the law firm to the client along the lines of "our bank details have changed to xxx please transfer your outstanding bill by [date]". The client didn't realise anything was wrong until the law firm chased him for the bill by which time the account the attacker had used was closed and the money moved offshore.

"Black History": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUtAxUQjwB4 -

Probably the best, most eye opening talk on any topic, but especially on the roots of institutionalised racism, and perhaps the cause of a lot of issues today.

It is by "Akala", an English rapper, poet, and journalist at the Oxford Union and is is a shining example that you can gain a great amount of knowledge, if you are only willing to.

If you liked the Netflix documentary "13th" you will like this.

Any recommendations for sessions worth watching?

Apart from the Sunday roast you mentioned, which incidently is available in the majority of pubs I've been to (I had a very nice one yesterday) what other parts of the "english cultural" experience are you missing?

I think Aiwip https://aiwip.com are doing a pretty good job of improving the user experience related to printing. The flow is: upload documents, stand next to printer, press print. It also allows you to print from any other aiwip printer and printing for free.

TFL (Transport for London) have been running hydrogen buses on a route in London since 2011. According to the link they have 8 in total and the entire route is operated with hydrogen buses.

http://www.hydrogenlondon.org/projects/london-hydrogen-bus-p...

I remember reading about how researchers were trying to store hydrogen in what are (essentially) nano-scale plastic beads.

http://www.theengineer.co.uk/news/nanobeads-could-store-liqu...

On the subject of Prime Minister's Questions here are some clips showing how rowdy it can get;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1iL2jGZiZw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUqhqsfE0YQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVs1jN85w10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUX9LvYlAps

Actually, we recently launched one aimed specifically at students: https://aiwip.com/students/

To this day, I still think derivation of the speed of light in a vacuum from the Maxwell equations is one of the most elegant and beautiful things in Physics.

I do not think it is possible to knight posthumously.

This is a great idea. I am sure this would be really useful to astrophys undergrads. Last time I need to use it for a project I had to make a python script download from their telnet service.