When I did recruitment at lionhead, we abandoned tech interviews and just spoke to candidates about their experiences and coding motivations. The company closed down about 10 years after I left, so I'd like to think it went ok as a process.

I bought a couple of used aerons when I started freelancing in 2005, they're still going strong. The nice thing is when parts fail, you can get new ones.

mmmm face lighting

you were living in the future even back in 1990. A guy on my undergrad had one of these:

how good does it need to be?

beers before or after the lecture?

it did seem very random, having a football manager espousing the value of tape2tape recording ;).

Nice to see the endorsement from Terry Venables. I take it this was after Lord Sugar bought spurs.

fwiw, I've used online sites for academic printing in the past.

looks alright. I was going to suggest pyimgui too. if you like html, pywebview is worth a look,

pyqt?

lol, tell me about it. I used to teach user experience design and every interaction with tech is now 'why on earth have they done this?'

block and move on

can't you give him some 'junior scotch' to calm him down? It worked well for Shane MacGowan's mum.