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Are you American by any chance? Not having a go, just curious.

I remember getting my first mobile, one of the big pitches for it was "no cost to receive sms messages." It's funny to look back on it now.

There was the referendum. Then the elected representatives voted on it, and passed it. Then there was a general election, after which Leave was again voted for in Parliament (and both the main parties back leaving the EU). How many votes are needed??

What utter rubbish. Just when you think it's already reached "Peak Guardian", they come out with that.

You've given an extreme example, not worth replying to really.

I don't know what bubble you live in

The "bubble" that the vast majority of devs live in where on-call isn't a thing?

If you don't want a call out

I won't agree to one, nor sign a contract where it's listed.

How's it spam? I select people/accounts I want to follow, and tweets from them show up in chronological order in my timeline. Sounds brilliant, someone should get on that!

Anything goes? Twitter have been actively censoring hashtags, banning people, shadow-banning accounts and most recently "de-verifiying" people due to political differences.

So realistically, is the code going to be fixed at 3 a.m.? Why can't it wait til I'm in the next morning at 8 a.m. for a proper review, triage, priority listing and then fix?

I'm shocked that people would so easily give up their free time really, but to each their own.

How much does it pay extra?

It's called "eating your own dog food".

No it's not, that's using your own product. Which I do.

On call as a core part? Really? Thankfully I've never worked anywhere with such a "duty", tbh if my current place proposed it I'd be applying for new jobs by lunch time.

What's the standard pay for being on-call as a matter of interest?

Could this be a result of Ireland being somewhat of a tax haven?

Not really. The problem is that building all but stopped in the aftermath of the 2007/8 crash. Meanwhile the economy recovered, Dublin in particular is booming now but we're still lacking enough homes to meet demand and building never recovered to the necessary levels. Add in a reluctance for "building up" and a growing population, that gets you higher and higher prices...

It's deja vu all over again.

Except for the lack of readily available credit. For the most part, it seems the people paying the high prices are "able" to afford it. The problem is that home ownership (and the security that brings, particularly in Ireland) is not attainable for most young people and families anymore.

I fail to see what that has to do with supercomputing funding/underfunding due to religious stuff (which I'm guessing is tax breaks).

including supercomputing

No, not true at all.

His statement has some weight.

Only in so far as you could make the argument about any of the other spendings of the US government and shoe-horn it in.

Hilarious shoe-horning in of your personal gripe. When was the vote to decide between computing funding and religious stuff?

I honestly don't remember that. I could easily have predicated what would come up in the article, the G have a bizarre fascination with that mini-shuttle protesting story. It comes up in pretty much every tech/SV story. Throw in a bunch of anecdotes, a few jabs at gentrification (because it's only tech people who are responsible for it, not planning etc), the hilarious implication that most techies work for the big companies listed when you and I both know that bs, a video of a few morons from Dropbox and somehow that all equates to techies being the new bankers? Really? That's got past an editor?

The Guardian has a clear anti-tech/SV bias, I'll take the lot with a desert spoon of salt.

No but his PR team have done wonders in making the average Joe think he's the smartest man in the world and therefore the papers will run with anything he comes out with,

Living in the UK, my last job required three months notice to leave on paper. In reality they accepted a month which is standard enough.

A few years back I had 10 bitcoins and bought weed on the Silk Road with them. Hmm, imagine I held onto it :)

Hmm, the whole "use pens" thing was extensively widespread in the Scottish Independence ref in 2014. Not a surprise it'd resurface on a wider scale two years later.

I can operate it without ever taking it out of the pocket its in.

Yes! That's something so innate to my usage that I forgot to mention it.

It's some sort of Sony Walkman. Dunno which model as all of the printing on the device has worn away with use!

Charging isn't an issue, it lasts days and days. I don't actually remember the last time it ever ran out. Not mention I use it as a handy sub storage for other files. It's ultra light, and as someone who does a bit of running I'd feel ridiculous having one of those arm patches to hold a £xxx phone.

I can relate to an extent. I use a USB stick music player. It's essentially like a usb drive with a headphone jack. I've had it years. I never use my smartphone for music, I don't see the need. When it breaks, I'll get another one.

Wow that's some jump. It's the opposite for me in a way, I'm renting and it's killing me to see all that "wasted". A mortgage would cost far less than what rent is, and by paying it off I see that as a type of "investment" i.e. at least I'll four walls around me and my family.

How did punching a Nazi once in a while stop being great?

Maybe when the people doing it reserve the right to decide who is a "Nazi" and who is not.

Not really an exhaustive list of positions... Anyways the figures for my area are well off and I suspect London-tainted.

This was written so disrespectfully and dismissively of programmers, hackers and engineers that I have a hard time reading it, despite my extreme distaste for Facebook.

It's the Guardian, that's pretty much to be expected.

Well if we're going down that road, that figure is dwarfed by the amount of debt the Irish State took on to bail out European banks...

Nice selective headlining from the Guardian. Usually txes are paid on profits. Wouldn't drive the clicks though.