The major one is you lose all your emails when your webmail provider shuts down.

I have a yahoo account that I use basically as a spam catching address. I access it via a mail client, though, so never have to deal with the web interface.

Many programmers barely pass muster as programmers, never mind engineers.

While the BBC pays lip service to restricting VPN access, I don't think they are wanting to implement any bans. They don't lose much (apart from bandwidth) by overseas viewers streaming on BBC iPlayer, and will likely generate extra revenue when the same viewers buy DVDs of programmes they enjoy from their local Amazon.

Excellent boss treats you like an adult when he has a point, and communicates the problem clearly, and without resorting to childish abuse.

QA is not just about testing. Testing is Quality Control; just one aspect of a QA framework.

Android doesn't trade on it's walled-garden security.

This, plus they are a hardware company and don't trade in data. Data scientists aside, it's also tough as a developer trying to get any useful stats on the apps you sell on the app store. But again, Apple is a hardware company and doesn't really worry too much about that either,

CORAL66 and JOVIAL are both quite important languages that were used in military applications. I learned Prolog as an undergrad, but not sure how obscure or widely used it is these days.

Same for me. Motorola 6800 and 6809 assembler for the low level and Pascal for the data structures courses. Once we had a strong grounding in both, they let us loose on C. It was a great combination.

He has his developers participate in the recruitment process. If the person he hires is good, the developers will know and the accountant will know as the new hire will be able to clearly communicate with both during the interview.

Maybe she had the same advisers that saw 22 million emails deleted by the Bush/Cheney Whitehouse. Remember the outrage over that affair? Me either.

Might be worth checking his track record on breaking promises and his wage policies for existing employees before making any rash decisions.

My 2006 Jeep Wrangler has a key and no remote.

Yes, that would be a great way to lose business from every single one of the carriers they do business with.

It still handles wi-fi better than OS X discoveryd.