Richard Jones
@profrejones.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor at U. Kent, computer scientist, GC researcher, author of The Garbage Collection Handbook (2012, 2023), Garbage Collection (1996). Opinions are my own.
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Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
May 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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We know Reform are winning lots of seats, but look at this under the bonnet - they dominate 2nd places too - in wards Labour, Tories, Lib Dems & Greens won Reform was most likely to have come 2nd in all of them. Thinking today *must* be a high water mark for Reform is a mistake as more ground to go
May 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We know Reform are winning lots of seats, but look at this under the bonnet - they dominate 2nd places too - in wards Labour, Tories, Lib Dems & Greens won Reform was most likely to have come 2nd in all of them. Thinking today *must* be a high water mark for Reform is a mistake as more ground to go
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I know we're all focused on the US psychodrama right now, but... what should we be doing in the UK, as our spluttering economy lurches into yet another crisis?
I've written a new personal post on what the UK needs to do now...
acjsissons.medium.com/what-now-for...
I've written a new personal post on what the UK needs to do now...
acjsissons.medium.com/what-now-for...
What now for the UK economy?
The UK economy is facing yet another crisis. After Covid, the 2022 gas crisis and the Liz Truss bond market fiasco, we now have to face the…
acjsissons.medium.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I know we're all focused on the US psychodrama right now, but... what should we be doing in the UK, as our spluttering economy lurches into yet another crisis?
I've written a new personal post on what the UK needs to do now...
acjsissons.medium.com/what-now-for...
I've written a new personal post on what the UK needs to do now...
acjsissons.medium.com/what-now-for...
Interesting analysis
LONG READ
From David Ricardo to Alexander Hamilton to David Autor to the “sum of all cheating” to the equation that tariffs penguins, to loaded guns & game theory.
Another BBC InDepth trying to explain what’s on earth is going on and where it’s going….
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
From David Ricardo to Alexander Hamilton to David Autor to the “sum of all cheating” to the equation that tariffs penguins, to loaded guns & game theory.
Another BBC InDepth trying to explain what’s on earth is going on and where it’s going….
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might
What made the US step back from the system that it profited handsomely from for decades?
www.bbc.co.uk
April 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Interesting analysis
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Remembering David Turner at LambdaDays last year, with John Highes, Lennart Augustsson and Jeremy Gibbons youtu.be/ZeEj1icGfVg
David Turner Memorial Session - J. Hughes, S. Thompson, L. Augustsson, J. Gibbons | Lambda Days 2024
YouTube video by Code Sync
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February 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Remembering David Turner at LambdaDays last year, with John Highes, Lennart Augustsson and Jeremy Gibbons youtu.be/ZeEj1icGfVg
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So now we have it. Rachel Reeves's claim that a third runway at Heathrow Airport would boost economic growth comes from a report commissioned by .... Heathrow Airport. Instead of acting in the national interest, she's channelling corporate lobbyists.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reeves’s Heathrow third runway report was commissioned by London airport
The chancellor is under fire after a study cited as evidence for expanding the terminal to boost the UK’s economic growth was ordered by Heathrow itself
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
So now we have it. Rachel Reeves's claim that a third runway at Heathrow Airport would boost economic growth comes from a report commissioned by .... Heathrow Airport. Instead of acting in the national interest, she's channelling corporate lobbyists.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Lattice Science Publication (LSP):
“Article Submission open for Original Article(s) if (1) plagiarism of the article is less than 15%”!!!Though, to be fair, that did include references.
“Article Submission open for Original Article(s) if (1) plagiarism of the article is less than 15%”!!!Though, to be fair, that did include references.
January 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The Lattice Science Publication (LSP):
“Article Submission open for Original Article(s) if (1) plagiarism of the article is less than 15%”!!!Though, to be fair, that did include references.
“Article Submission open for Original Article(s) if (1) plagiarism of the article is less than 15%”!!!Though, to be fair, that did include references.
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Sloppy journalism by the BBC. Unfortunately it’s becoming increasingly common.
The BBC chooses to lead this story with a woman of 66 saying “I used to depend on my winter fuel payment”, a payment that she could have received a maximum of…1 times?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Winter fuel payment: 'I got a credit card after losing the £200'
Pensioners who lost winter fuel money after government changes tell the BBC the last few months have been a struggle.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sloppy journalism by the BBC. Unfortunately it’s becoming increasingly common.
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We’re in a new Gilded Age - which sounds great, but the Robber Barons are back.
And this time, they’re more selfish than ever, as Prof Tobias Jung, St Andrews University, writes:
theconversation.com/andrew-carne...
And this time, they’re more selfish than ever, as Prof Tobias Jung, St Andrews University, writes:
theconversation.com/andrew-carne...
Andrew Carnegie and the 19th-century ‘robber barons’ have lessons for today’s oligarchs about the responsibilities of wealth
The 19th-century industrialists were called ‘robber barons’ – but they did more to improve society than many of today’s super-rich.
theconversation.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
We’re in a new Gilded Age - which sounds great, but the Robber Barons are back.
And this time, they’re more selfish than ever, as Prof Tobias Jung, St Andrews University, writes:
theconversation.com/andrew-carne...
And this time, they’re more selfish than ever, as Prof Tobias Jung, St Andrews University, writes:
theconversation.com/andrew-carne...
Evidence that #university education is beneficial to both students and the country.
Not that I needed convincing.
Not that I needed convincing.
#Evidence that #university studies are worth it. I obviously do not need to be convinced and think that university studies are not about money. A free democracy needs well-informed citizens who can make evidence-based analyses. Aspiring nations value #education for the sake of itself. #AcademicSky
Are universities worth it? • Resolution Foundation
Young graduates earn £5,000 more annually than non-graduates, but that premium is lower than it was 10 years ago. The real earnings of young graduates have been broadly flat over the last decade, simi...
www.resolutionfoundation.org
January 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Evidence that #university education is beneficial to both students and the country.
Not that I needed convincing.
Not that I needed convincing.
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great reporting here by BBC Panorama
December 9, 2024 at 9:55 PM
great reporting here by BBC Panorama
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Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
November 27, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
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Oh no he didn't like that. Do it again!
Victoria Derbyshire nails Jeremy Clarkson over his Inheritance Tax scam.
Hilarious to watch him squirm.
Hilarious to watch him squirm.
November 19, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Oh no he didn't like that. Do it again!
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Lots of over-the-top coverage right now about the £1m cap on inheritance tax agricultural property relief (APR).
Quick thread:
Quick thread:
October 31, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Lots of over-the-top coverage right now about the £1m cap on inheritance tax agricultural property relief (APR).
Quick thread:
Quick thread:
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Computing education by non-CS Ed folks: Ben Shapiro (the good one) and I are ready for the second run of CERAMICS (Computing Education Research Advancing Methods for Curricula and Systems). Please see and share the FAQ + app link:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
November 16, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Computing education by non-CS Ed folks: Ben Shapiro (the good one) and I are ready for the second run of CERAMICS (Computing Education Research Advancing Methods for Curricula and Systems). Please see and share the FAQ + app link:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
docs.google.com/document/d/e...