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See how your comment has inbuilt sass? It doesn’t matter what you consider plenty of space and an appropriate speed- if you startle me, I’m going to yell at you for not ringing a bell to let me know you were there.

Note that the worst kind of canal towpath cyclist is the one who slows to a crawl and creeps behind me for minutes sometimes unnoticed, biding their time for a passing spot with lots of space. Just ring the frigging bell and I will stand out of your way for the 3 seconds it takes you to get by!

Time crisis but cooperative- one player drives a car and the other fires the light gun. So much fun.

They could adopt a different model like in Prague where a ticket is time-based and ticket inspectors roam and fine people. The tickets cover buses, trams, metro, funicular, ferries and you can buy a yearly ticket for about £150.

The UK makes travelling by public transport as tedious as possible.

Any computing device can mine bitcoins. You can even do it by hand if you want. Without custom hardware and solar/hydro/volcanic free energy you won't make any money though.

I once read someone stating that "The safest car on the road is the one with a ten-inch razor-sharp metal spike fixed to the centre of the steering wheel.".

What doesn't seem to be represented in the discussion is that if you source and build your own epi pen, you might not have that initial discussion with your doctor and you certainly don't get any medical guidance leaflet with it.

Using an epi pen is a dangerous business and can cause considerable complications. It is absolutely not to be taken lightly and is literally for life-or-death situations. I fear that those making their own (or heaven forbid somebody else's) pen will not know this.

Source: my doctor when I bought my first epi pen (beekeeper).

Maybe the assumption is that

- everyone has time to figure it out

Or

- nobody will use it

"Sub-marine", surely?

I don't have a question, but I'd like to thank you. I've been a MUBI subscriber for a month or two now and love it. You've a subscriber for life here.

My best experience was when I fired up my MUBI app in my holiday home (different country in Europe) expecting nothing (like with Netflix and Amazon film), only to find another excellent selection of films.

Discovering that rather than punish me for trying to use MUBI in two countries, you actually gave me twice as much content, was a beautiful surprise to say the least. Thank you.

Don't be so noble. This is a good time to be selfish. Once you've recovered you can pay back the world.

To contextualise this, in the UK we usually declare whether we have an alarm during the application for insurance, and we pay a larger premium if we don't have an alarm / other security.

So these people have benefitted by having a lower premium because they have an alarm and then not used it / found it inoperable in the event of a burglary.

It's really not my attention to offend/troll, but I found it amusing that whilst reading the blog post I found myself thinking "The grammar of this article is so bad, I wonder if the author's first language is English"... just as I hit the same question in the text. :)

To add something constructive to the discussion:

I've hired tens of developers over the years. Recruiting is by far the most black art I've ever suffered in the IT industry. I've terminated interviews with the most technically-adept people because their attitude was so risible there was no way they could be part of the company; I've begged interviewees who would barely speak to open up because I had a hunch they were brilliant (I was right); and I've hired promising and smart junior staff over proven yet jaded senior staff.

Trying to encompass the delightful diversity which is presented to an interviewer in a few rules is usually folly to appease the suits. You will miss great hires that way.

Does that matter? Well, it depends. I spoke to or interviewed one person for every 20 resumes, and hired one in every 20 interviewees. So, miss one through a bunch of dumb rules and think about the 400 resumes you will have to wade through......

The bottom line is that people are diverse and weird- especially engineers!- and a good interviewer with a developed spidey sense will do better for the company by ignoring daft rules regarding recruitment.

TL:DR

Recruiting is really hard and difficult to define. You will lose good hires by implementing made-up rules.