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DC-3 | 5 months ago

Given that this is Hacker News, I think it is worth pointing out that Durham's strong suit traditionally is the humanities. In my opinion a CS degree from Oxford, Cambridge, or ICL is considerably more impressive than one from Durham.

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notreallyauser|5 months ago

Given this is Hacker News, I think we should definitely encourage all Yes, Minister references.

vmilner|5 months ago

It's scary how relevant a 1970's/80s comedy show is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgkUVIj3KWY (Salami tactics)

alephnerd|5 months ago

I've found graduate students at Edinburgh to be fairly good as well thanks to the EPSRC's preference for the uni.