Staff SWE at Google UK can get you to 400k+ (depending on stock grants / stock price gains).

I've been doing this for nearly five years now, so I've gradually built up a system that works for me. Usually I'll use one of two devices:

* Asus Chromebook Flip (C100PA)

* iPad Pro 10.5 with keyboard cover

When I'm developing, I use ssh or mosh to access my workstation in the office and then tmux+vim. Mosh works pretty great with poor connectivity. I've pretty much mentally mapped the signal quality along my route, so I know when to look out the window for a couple of minutes to wait for signal to come back...

When I'm not developing, I'm usually using Gmail+Google Docs/Sheets/etc to get stuff done. They all work relatively well offline/online.

For connectivity, I use a Raspberry Pi Zero with a 4G data stick as a WiFi hotspot (the on-train WiFi is terrible, and tethering to my phone kills the phone battery way too quickly). That setup can run for 6-8 hours on a little Anker USB battery pack.

You are an hero for using Raspberry PI Zero with 4G data stick. Applauses. How do you power it? Battery or plug?

Why not use a usb battery pack for your phone? Seems like one fewer thing to carry, and no extra 4G cellular contract.

This generally seems to be my conclusion when thinking about making something cool with a Pi or similar, wondering if I’m missing something?

It's a fascinating idea. The Pi Zero is tiny (likely much smaller than the battery pack). I'd think it's not that big a deal. Plus, depending on your employer, they may have unreasonable requirements for subsidizing a phone contract vs a 4G stick.

I'm looking forward to Google opening an office in Bristol. Until then, I'm stuck on a daily commute from Bath to London.

The commute sucks, but I couldn't stand living in London (nor SF or the bay for that matter).

Google's offices at Victoria? I can understand wanting to live outside London, but surely there are optinos that would at give you a shorter commute - Caterham? Epsom? Dorking? Sevenoaks? Brighton even?

Skynet, like the UK military satellite comms network?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellites)

Pro-tip: you can use "brew info [package-name]" to lookup the post-install info that flashes up after a homebrew install.

    $ brew info cassandra

    cassandra: stable 2.1.2
    http://cassandra.apache.org
    Not installed
    From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/cassandra.rb
    ==> Caveats
    If you plan to use the CQL shell (cqlsh), you will need the Python CQL library
    installed. Since Homebrew prefers using pip for Python packages, you can
    install that using:

      pip install cql

    To have launchd start cassandra at login:
        ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/cassandra/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
    Then to load cassandra now:
        launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.cassandra.plist

Same here. I'm using the mobile web versions of Facebook, Twitter and G+ on my iPad and iPhone and I'm not (yet) missing any of the features of the native apps.

I think this might be the start of the shift from apps back to the web. Why clutter your phone with notifications, saved data and background processes when the website offers more features with less overhead?

There's also j2objc, another interesting tool for creating a common layer for iOS and Android apps.

https://github.com/google/j2objc

I'm playing with it for a personal project, and as long as you're not too adventurous with your use of the JRE, it produces pretty usable Objective-C code.

The last paragraph of the article:

"Because of its sample size (1,801 people) and choice of topic, Pew’s study might not be a fully accurate example of social media’s silencing effects, but it’s definitely fodder for discussion – if you dare! – as well as further research."

Sigh.

Which of the following does your sigh indicate:

a. You are sighing because you believe the study to be meaningless due to its sample size.

b. You are sighing because the writer needlessly undermines the results of a completely legitimate poll (+/- 3.3% margin of error for the subgroups).

c. You are sighing about poor comedy ("if you dare!").

.. not to mention that there's a lot of overlap between aerospace and F1 engineering. Plenty of the engineers (even the trackside ones) started out studying aero engineering.

+1, I live in a semi-rural town of ~10k residents and I get 75Mbps / 15Mbps fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband.

The infrastructure is owned by the incumbent monopoly provider, but the service over the top can be supplied by any one of a number of large and small suppliers.