OneFamousGrouse

> for the last four years I've gone China in December so that I can avoid most of the festive period in peace.

This sounds like the premise of a christmas TV movie.

> I'm pretty sure in most jobs there is some kind of opportunity for learning.

This is absolutely not the case.

> I do remember thinking it's odd that a line has exactly 80 characters and putting an asterisk in the 7th or 8th row means the line is a comment.

You should check out IBM RPG and its various iterations, it's a whole lot worse than that.

Not really, as far as I've heard/read, at least in French media, they were very quick to point this out.

He was indeed a crook, but seemed like a nice, personable crooks, rather than the cynical ones we get nowadays.

I woke up, and realized that I was actually still poor.

I live in the general area mentioned in the article, and I hike in these woods quite regularly. It's depressing and scary as hell.

That's quite unclear, yep. He also uses affiliate links to the book on Amazon. Seems shady.

If you ever market your product in France, don't use that acronym.

I dont know about that. I think having a visual representation of the sugar contents could work quite well especially for people who don't tend to read labels.

This is unfortunately not yet true everywhere, especially outside the big cities.

This might be true in the US but hardly in the entire "western world". Here in France you can give birth in a hospital without ever having a doctor intervening, only midwives, and it is not a new thing.

I'm not arguing against layoffs at all, when they are justified.

I'm so glad I'm in a country where you can't be laid off at a moment's notice like that, and I very much hope this is not going to change, despite our disruptive leader™'s wishes.

Look who didn't read the article.