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Degree or no degree, I bet almost nobody earns £100K per year in Glasgow.
by motters 15y ago
Degree or no degree, I bet almost nobody earns £100K per year in Glasgow.
- netcan 15y agoor a degree
- arethuza 15y agoPlease tell me that is a joke... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Glasgow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Glasgow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Strathclyde http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Strathclyde http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_School_of_Art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_School_of_Art and all of the others.... [Edit: For anyone reading this, Glasgow is a great place, sure it has difficult neighborhoods, but most cities do and most cities don't have nearly as much character as Glasgow.]
- netcan 15y agoYes of course it was a joke. If you can't have a dig at the Scottish..
- singular 15y agoSeconded: Glasgow also has some of the most amazing architecture, especially in the Park area [1]. I think a lot of the talk about the rough side of Glasgow has been overblown. Every city has rough areas and dodgy people. There are parts of London it's inadvisable to go out in after dark, in fact I've lived in some. [1]:http://www.scotcities.com/westend/parkdistrict.htm http://www.scotcities.com/westend/parkdistrict.htm
- arethuza 15y agoOne of my all time favorite bits of software was written in Glasgow at the Turing Institute by Arthur van Hoff (later of the original Sun Java team and one of the founders of Marimba). It was a lovely user interface builder created on top of Sun's PostScript-based NeWS graphical environment: HyperNeWS. http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html One of the strengths/weaknesses of HyperNeWS was that it relied on PostScript scripting - which was perhaps a bit tricky for us mere mortals. So Arthur wrote an ANSI C to PostScript compiler (in PostScript) - one of his Glaswegian colleages named this PDB, which stood, of course, for Pure Dead Brilliant.
- SimHacker 15y agoHey that's one of my favorite pieces of software too! I moved to Glasgow to work on it with Arthur. The Glasgow School of Art rocks on Friday nights! ;) And you are correct about PdB's true meaning. The Wee Man says... Here You (that'll be right): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNLfr1EP08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNLfr1EP08
- matthias 15y agoI've smiled at many a piece of HN serendipity in the past, but never expected it to happen to me. I wrote this car park post, and also DJ'd at the arty last friday night. Perfection.
- avh 15y agoThanks!
- arethuza 15y agoI knew sitting here in Edinburgh and writing nice things about Glasgow would pay off... :-) Actually, I seem to remember that I owe you some thanks, I blagged a very early copy of Java from you in early '95 - which led to some fairly interesting stuff (at least for Scotland).