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4 publicly visible posts • joined 17 May 2013

'Best tech employer of the year' threatened trainee with £15k penalty fee for quitting to look after his sick mum

russthegibbon
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"My time at the Sparta Academy may have even overprepared me!"

Let's see your code then, sunshine. I'd wager good money it would make my eyes bleed.

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UK mobile number porting creaks: Arcane system shows its age

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I had exactly this problem when I was with Vodafone back in 2011-2013. I've had the same number since 2000 and it's been ported pretty much everywher. In the Vodafone period, callers kept getting "number not in service" and no amount of support calls resolved it. In the end I had to change networks and I've never had the problem since.

This is the kind of problem you will always get in large, complex, multi-company legacy systems. The real shame is that Vodafone's support people, whilst always friendly and apologetic, didn't seem to have the knowledge to sort it when it occurs.

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Drugs, vodka, Volvo: The Scandinavian answer to Britain's future new border

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Re: Norway is in EFTA and Schengen...

Exactly. Although it's interesting to hear about the Norway/Sweden system, it's not going to be any use on a border that *has* to be 100% "hard". In May's version of the future there can be no more free movement of people between the UK and the EU (and therefore Ireland), so everyone crossing will need to be stopped and their documents checked. The only reason the government isn't coming out and admitting this is that they want to kick the can as far down the road as possible in the hope that some act of god turns it into someone else's problem.

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Hunt: I'll barcode sick Brits and rip up NHS's paper prescriptions

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Anti-fraud measure?

I remember seeing a news report years ago about the large amount of money the NHS was wasting because of people fraudulently ticking the "I don't pay for my prescriptions" box on the back of the slip. Apparently it was only rarely checked that the patient was eligible for this examption. Maybe this measure is really, at least in part, about mimimising that sort of fraud?

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