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This article is regarding Apple's EU profits, the Yahoo statement (I think?) is global profits.

Also the income statement says: All numbers in thousands

So you need to add 000 to the end of those numbers

Well the sample was testing against twitter (obviously prod).

So someone may test against prod if they didn't really know what these things could do.

Agree, it seems like a pretty straight forward approach.

Having said that, one year out of university is a good time to take as much risk as you like so its not too important at that stage.

It may even help motivate if you know you will benefit financially if your company does well

Likewise:

1;DROP TABLE users 1'; DROP TABLE users--

Seems a bit hairy to have that in there in case someone tries to run these tests on their prod environment

If you're main goal is "to have some steady income via side project" then it doesnt matter which language you pick.

What matters is the product you create and whether people will use it and/or pay for it.

Compared to the interest only part, the savings are significant. Way more than 200 per month.

The capital repayments are not money lost in the same way that rent would be (assuming your house price doesnt plummet and you are forced to sell at that time).

So in the UK (outside London at least) at the moment there is little argument for renting, assuming you can afford the down payment.

London is a slightly different beast mind as prices have skyrocketed and down payments can be huge

I disagree, this view is too simplistic.

It's very different to owning shares in a company. You have to either buy a house or rent. You cant opt out entirely, whereas you can with shares.

By choosing to rent, you are betting on the housing market being stagnant or falling, if house prices shoot up and you opted to rent, you will need to now pay higher rents or a bigger mortgage.

So there is risk in renting too

If you decided to rent in london instead of buying 3 years ago, you'd be tens of thousands down

Its funny that you post that, he comes off a lot better than you in that thread.

True, but then that is not what he said, you conveniently reworded it ;)

You may want to mention where you live and/or are available to work from, also adding a resume may be nice

Thats unfortunate, you just red flagged yourself! I think its time to never ask your interview candidates that question again.

Hmm, I don't think not fully understanding existing tools and not wanting to read documentation is a good reason. You can easily add prompting with maven, gradle etc, test result reporting, source control integration is all built in.

The 150 flags you mention provide flexibility, you dont need to know them all to get started. With your custom build process, instead of finding a flag that does what you need, you need to implement what you need from scratch, and document it for future developers.

If you use a standard build tool its also easier to hire someone who already knows it, plus understanding them will help you fit into new teams easier.

Unless maybe this is for personal projects, in which case I think its probably less of an issue

Yep, nonsense in = nonsense out. This "study" is pointless.

I am also interested to know. Could be because they're (generally) cheaper?