In Formula 1 the FIA (rule-makers and enforcers) often seem to give penalties to ensure the title fight goes to the last race.

Hamilton in Spa 2008 and Alonso in Monza 2006 are examples which come to mind.

Pretty cool, but it needs the ability to pitch up/down to be useful.

Too late for me - I bought a Samsung Galaxy S2 instead of an HTC Sensation precisely because of the locked bootloader.

mmap is how the Varnish web cache works - the cache files is mmaped in, and the kernel does the rest.

Given the awesome performance of Varnish, I am surprised more applications haven't taken this approach.

Varnish is good because the size of a web page fits nicely with the size of memory pages... if you have very many small objects, you'll have to get a bit more clever about how you place them.

For what it's worth, I've written several projects that entirely rely on mmap()ed memory:

Localmemcache (key-value database): http://localmemcache.rubyforge.org/

clispy (Port of PNorvig's lispy to C): https://github.com/sck/clispy

In the UK the liability of directors is limited to the nominal value originally invested (usually £100).

Thus limited, this isn't that much different in Germany. I wasn't really asking about the legal ramifications, but how the banks treat it (and if this incubator does it differently).

Let's say a director of a limited company with a low capital (UK Ltd, German UG etc.) wants to take out a loan on the company. The default risk would be pretty high, and so it's standard practice that the loan contract includes and additional clause that the director is directly liable. Doesn't change the law itself, just an additional contractual obligation.

That's why I'm interested in how the UK banks (and/or this incubator) would treat this. Either they do it the same way, the state takes care of such losses or they're much more eager to accept risks than banks here (which, given recent history, wouldn't surprise me either).

20k GPB for 6% strikes me as rather high, as -- never mind all the aforementioned scrutiny -- getting a loan that high isn't really that much of a deal.

I know nothing of this incubator, but I've heard that banks often ask for personal guarantees. There are various cases I've heard of where the business has failed and people have lost their homes, which were used as guarantee.

It probably comes down to what can be negotiated and I think it's mostly the same as you describe in Germany: Liability is limited unless you agree that it is not.

As a side note, I've had personal experience of one fund which hoped to get back the money given regardless of success or failure. I declined to get involved with them.

Manchester/Warrington borders here (Birchwood). Cheap office space + quick train journey to the centre of Manchester.

TLDR; It's marginally faster than the Boxster architecture, but slower than the Carrera architecture.

And no doubt the phishers are already cooking up emails to this effect too...

Got an email from mint.com long after I closed that account, asking me to verify a bank connection that wasn't working.

Headers look legit, but man things like these are going to bite people hard.

Interested to compare to http://www.cio.co.uk/news/3252277/demand-for-tech-staff-high... which suggests that the number of IT jobs in the UK is growing, and that growth will accelerate over the next year.

Rewards cards cost more to process. As I understand it though Mastercard and Visa T&Cs mean that if you either accept all cards or none.