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Webflow. The menus go 10 levels deep to interact with an element. As a dev, even I can't understand it. Raw HTML is better than their menu-driven WYSIWYG

Dance lessons in a group setting work well. My dance classes have made the transition to online lessons. Zoom can get laggy sometimes so tap doesn't work well in real-time. I've improved my tap tremendously from the amount of practice and the ability to replay tutorial videos.

I have my laptop placed such that the webcam acts as a mirror and the tutorial video or Zoom meeting of the class on my second screen. When the teachers shows positions that are obfuscated they turns to face the camera in a 45 degree angle. The only 360 view missing is the Chinese whispers / follow the leader view of seeing the other dancers in the class is when my eyeline is out of view.

You'd think with all the training ladies' hairdressers would know how to deal with different hair types. My hair isn't that much different from Caucasian hair. Even some ladies' hairdressers in the UK don't know how to deal with my Asian (Oriental) hair. The strands are thicker and I have more hair as well. I either go to the Asian salons or go for the non-trainee hairdressers.

I have received highlights that aren't visible at all except under the sun, hair that doesn't hang right as the weight of my hair holds it straighter when it's long, left with too much hair as they don't understand what thinning hair is, etc.

I've been to a tech 'code and bitch' ('stitch and bitch'). The premise was really obvious because everyone knew not to bring a laptop.

EU workers would need a visa like the rest of us non-EUs if they don't get pre-settled status.

Free time, salary (from dev job only) and improving my skills. The goals right now are money and time to spend on holidays, hobbies, and hobby business. In the future when I have children, swap out hobbies for children (I live in the UK where it's cheaper to be a stay-at-home parent if you earn less than £ 22k).

I've done a beginners' course with a tutor but had forgotten most of it without regular practice. Duolingo is really useful for ingraining the language into my long-term memory. I would probably enrol in an intermediate course in the future when I can pass the test. I live in the UK where there is a big Spanish community and can easily go on holiday to Spain.

I can make grammatically correct sentences in the Duolingo domains and can understand the gist of unknown [written] sentences using contextual clues and words similar to English. There is a Flag question icon on the app where you can read the community's comments for an explanation on the grammar.

It's good value for money due to its lifespan. My family's iPad 2 is 8 years old and still going strong. Daily game-playing and web surfing sites still compatible with the old version of Safari. Whereas my Samsung Note tablet died after 2 years and wouldn't charge.

That's the same as international student fees. UK/EU fees are about half that. Salaries in Europe are lower too. £ 28k is around the median household income in the UK or graduate-level salary outside of London. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personal...

My INTERNATIONAL FEES for my MSc in Bristol was in 2013 only cost £ 17k. This includes lots of face-to-face contact with lecturers who are research leaders in the field. With living expenses the total would only be £ 30k. Inflation makes the total closer to £ 40k today.

However, for £ 28k, Europeans can study at Imperial in-person and live (albeit on a budget) in London.

An unforeseen complication of meeting so many wang hong at once is that it is hard to remember who is who. They tend to bear only an impression­istic resemblance to their Meitu-enhanced profile pictures. But whenever I take out my iPhone 6 to take a selfie with someone, I am rebuffed. People will suspiciously ask what kind of camera I am using before walking away with expres­sions ranging from offended to pity. “I can’t allow you to take a picture of me with that camera – it’ll be too ugly,” a woman from Chongqing tells me. I assure her that I am not a wang hong and will not be posting it, and we reach a compromise: she will take a selfie of us on her Meitu phone, edit her face and then send the photo to me.

I encode MP4s with the H265 codec. For GIFs I use Photoshop's Export with a preview and reduce the colours until the quality starts to degrade noticeably.

Using company-linked profiles to express your personal opinion. Keep your company name out of your personal Twitter profile, for example.

Only internationals graduating from UK universities qualify for a work visa with a £30k job. There is a real shortage of software engineers. The minimum pay for a non-EU software engineer coming into the UK was as high as £50k last year in April. It's only got lowered to £30k last month because of Brexit.

It's the EU workers who are willing to work for £30k because non-EUs need to earn more than £35k after 5 years to apply for settlement in the UK.

They remind me of coffin apartments in Hong Kong albeit with communal areas.

In the UK: To get the free trial contact lenses, the optician (who wore a white coat!) did my eye test and kept increasing the power until my prescription qualified as legally blind, despite me saying I have astigmatism. I never came back to collect the contact lenses obviously.

Went to my usual optometrist when I was back home in Malaysia 6 months later and surprise, surprise my prescription has not changed for the past 2 years!

Non-technical people doing the hiring. Keyword bingo and thinking Java and JavaScript are the same thing. The endless search for a unicorn or Goldilocks hiring (not unqualified, but not too good either). HR lacking EQ when they reject with weak white lies – this reflects badly on the company when the candidate is more qualified in the future.

They do and people are able to ask for them to use as boxes for moving house.

That's what Deliveroo have set up in London. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/28/deliveroo-d...

Then you have new delivery-only brands such as Mac Shack – with the food being prepared in the kitchens of Bella Italia chain restaurants.

Sundog Media Toolkit | Full-stack developers | Bristol, UK | Full-time, part-time available, visa sponsorship possible

Sundog is a toolkit for high end movie and television post production. We develop cutting edge tools for the media industry, from our industry leading cloud platform to machine learning image processing. Our customers are some of the world's biggest broadcasters and Hollywood movie studios. Sundog’s software helps get blockbusters to movie screens the world over, we are recognised as one of the leading technology firms in the media industry and we have even more exciting projects on the horizon.

We are looking for full-stack developers with strengths in some areas and working knowledge in other areas of the stack. C++, PHP, MySQL, RabbitMQ, AWS, OpenStack

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I live in a tiny flat (normal for the UK). I only keep hard copies of special books such as coffee table books and author-signed copies. I'll check whether the library has the book I want before purchasing a digital copy of it.

I ran into the first world problem of not being able to read a physical book in bed because my bedside lamp isn't bright enough, having always used my Kindle Paperwhite.

UK Fanta contains orange juice and sweetener because of the sugar tax. Had international Fanta (possibly American or Arabic) on a Qatar Airways flight and it was bright orange with no real fruit, and most importantly, sweet and I felt satisfied after half a cup.

The eInk refresh rate and colour issue still hasn't been solved. They would need to clear the screen every time the user flips to a new page to avoid ghosting.

"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."

I live in Bristol, UK. I walk fast because I know where to go and because I have lots of errands to run. Another reason is to avoid beggars and charity muggers (chatty fundraisers hired by charities to approach people on the street and ask them to make a cash donation/recurring donation) from chatting me up because I appear busy.

In the UK:

Cycle to Work: A scheme which involves an interest-free loan from the employer to buy a bike and safety accessories for cycling to work. This is a salary sacrifice so the employer pays less National Insurance and the employee saves on National Insurance and income tax.

Season ticket loans: Interest-free loans from the employer to enable the employee to purchase a yearly train/Tube ticket. Yearly tickets work out cheaper than monthly tickets.

Watch Little Paris Kitchen. Rachel Khoo lives in a tiny studio in Paris and manages to make a 3 course meal in the "smallest restaurant in Paris".

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-entertain-in-a-teeny-tiny-f...

My front-end dev colleague used to tell me to use a "proper" browser (i.e. Chrome) because I favoured Safari and even with DevTools. I said it gives me more battery life on a MacBook!

Similar to mine. We vote on the complexity of a task and have a discussion if people's estimates vary wildly. And a 20% 'extra features not accounted' for time.

It's so laggy on Safari OSX Sierra and often hangs. I'm not subscribing to read articles by amateurs. What it has going is nice content, white space, a feed feature – that's about it.