What I am seeing is that the IT employment market is broken - skilled people can't get jobs and the employers can't find skilled people. Everywhere I know (Finance IT) is short staffed. (View Post)

Last time was 1808, IIRC. When Napoleon poked Spain with a stick, and turned Spain into a British ally. (View Post)

Sigh. Do. It. Properly. (View Post)

There was, according to my acquaintance, more than one editor upset with the science journalists "fucking stories". That is, saying there wasn't actually a story, because of X and Y. W… (View Post)

Pesto was especially bad. He seems to believe that if he doesn't understand something, that means that the qualified people are wrong. (View Post)