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thomas08:09:10

And I am very pleased to announce that I just handed in my resignation here at big blue and I will be moving to the Netherlands…..

thomas08:09:21

…. for a clojure job!!! 😀

mccraigmccraig08:09:13

w00t @thomas ! which co are you going to ?

reborg09:09:02

Congrats @thomas! And since we are in topic, it’s my last day at the Mailonline… I’ll be joining the fine chaps over at uSwitch next Monday.

thomas10:09:51

sorry got distracted here a bit…

thomas11:09:27

and while brexit wasn’t the main reason it certainly acted as catalyst.

martintrojer11:09:42

the lastest quotes from May, Davis etc are pretty horrid.

martintrojer11:09:47

change all your pounds to euros now

martintrojer11:09:07

once they trigger article 50 (without any plan) FTSE is going to tank proper

martintrojer11:09:32

@thomas you should have gone for a Haskell gig troll

jasonbell11:09:00

That means the cost of new Chapman Stick’s is going to rocket for me, not a good start to the day.

thomas11:09:27

@martintrojer yes, I expect the pound to go down further once art. 50 gets triggered. I hope to have my pounds out by then… and regarding a haskell job… I don’t know any haskell (yet). I think I’d miss the lisp syntax… seems to make things simpler imho.

otfrom12:09:15

have May/Davis/etc done anything new to make things extra bad?

otfrom12:09:30

all I've seen them do is jump due to fear of China

otfrom12:09:28

congrats thomas. We'll miss you but those of us in the UK with Irish passports will have fun visiting you. 😄

thomas12:09:38

yes please do come!!!

thomas12:09:58

and thank you of course @otfrom

seancorfield14:09:05

I have four pension plans in the UK. One is already mature but I can't satisfy their "account verification" criteria to get the money into a US account. Been trying for two years and now I have a UK lawyer on it (who's already been trying to do this for her dad who lives in France). Frustrating to watch the value of those pensions tank post-Brexit.

seancorfield14:09:38

Re @thomas comment about the pound... ^

agile_geek17:09:17

@thomas sorry to see go. Those of us without Irish passports will have to wave across the North Sea and hope the uk doesn't descend further into xenophobia!

thomas20:09:29

Thank you @agile_geek I think I’ll still hang out here though in the future… this place feels a lot like home 🙂