[pavel_lishin]

I suppose it's tax free, but I'm pretty sure that he could have earned quite a bit more if he'd worked a steady job for 15 years and was as diligent about saving money as he must have been.

edit: Then again, I suppose that's £100k a year, which might be kind of tough to earn without spending money on a degree first.

[motters]

Degree or no degree, I bet almost nobody earns £100K per year in Glasgow.

[netcan]

or a degree

[arethuza]

Please tell me that is a joke...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Glasgow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Strathclyde

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.]

[singular]

Seconded: 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

[arethuza]

One 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

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]

Hey 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

[avh]

Thanks!

[netcan]

Yes of course it was a joke. If you can't have a dig at the Scottish..

[arethuza]

I believe someone, possibly the French, had a saying along the lines of "As touchy as a Scotsman" :-)

[SimHacker]

You mean "As stabby as a Scotsman"!