I suspect The Guardian was mostly thinking "Sure, we'll play along with your little pantomime. It's not like it's actually going to make any difference." I suspect the technicians from GCHQ were thinking the same as well. Possibly with a side thought of "Well, it gets us out of Cheltenham for a day at least".
It shuts things down here when it hits areas that haven't had snow for years; they no-longer have the infrastructure in place to deal with it for exactly the same reason Atlanta doesn't - it doesn't make economic sense to have the equipment sat around most of the time doing nothing. Essex contracts out all of its gritting and clearing; they got caught on the hop one year but has since started pre-gritting when there's a possibility of snow or ice (now if they'd just fix all fucking pot holes).
Some people are just ridiculously risk averse though. When we had snow in the South East last year (uh, I think it was last year) I was living up in Cambridge and I still travelled down to the office in London by train; people who lived in London were staying home. HR sent a company wide warning because of that (i.e. "don't do that again").
Typing on a Sun Type 5 always screwed me up when I'd been using a PC keyboard for a while; my fingers were all out of place because of the row of keys on the left hand side.
And American, I suspect. I didn't get the reference; I don't think I ever saw a Bloom County comic in the UK when I was growing up.
One backed by VCs who see "Google Engineer" and think it's probably worth it?
Some of us
Amateur simply means "doesn't do it for a living", not "doesn't have as much skill". An amateur can be possessed of as much if not more skill than a professional. The reverse is also possible, of course.
I have to admit it's the main thing I like about X; I tend to use my Linux machine via Xming from Windows. That said I would like the option of having accelerated compositing et al when using a machine locally whilst still being able to use X remotely.
Yeah and even we don't use it any more. Well, not all of it anyway.
Given many (most?) major companies and organizations maintain an active Twitter presence operated by their PR or customer relations department? Yes.
Unjust enrichment law might apply, but IANAL so I don't know.
Depends where you are. In the UK at least, as far as I know, they aren't required to honour a mistake if a reasonable person wouldn't have believed it was correct.
Not that anyone has figured out yet anyway. I wouldn't wish to preclude the possibility.
£500 then or now? Because that would be about £215k now.
"Les cites des enfant perdu" is also good.
After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
