Just got rid of COBOL in the bank I work at. Last systems turned off. COBOL is an extremely rigidly defined language. Plenty of people have made effective translators from it to other languages over … (View Post)

The plan, by the way, is lots of reassessments. The government seems to believe that this will result in less diagnoses. Except, if you listen to people who work in the area, there are vast numbers w… (View Post)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Ujwst_5Aw (View Post)

The story I heard (from a St Andrews lecturer) was that the move was actually pre planned. So that all the people who signed up to do a degree just to be next to Wills were wrong footed. (View Post)

A friend studying Art History at Oxford (PhD) commented that it was really the most expensive library card in history. Apart from the one-to-ones with Martin Kemp. (View Post)