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   by some_chap 4y ago

   I typically go with something like "Have you considered extracting this to a separate function"?
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   by some_chap 5y ago

   Thanks for making it available - I hope it doesn't burn through hosting costs! Purely for interest, but for me, the really interesting part was flipping between the OilSlick and Terrain maps, picking out the way that the landscape dedi
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   by some_chap 5y ago

   Digital's VMS/OpenVMS had something that was a fair way towards this, in that a file was created with a version number (myfile.txt;1) and when modified, a 2nd file (myfile.txt;2) was created, and so on... In practice we used to wo
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   by some_chap 5y ago

   Sounds like we should ban you from the shower, then. (Amusing to see “root caused” == “diagnosed” and != “caused”.)
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   by some_chap 5y ago

   So, Agile?
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   by some_chap 5y ago

   Hmm, so they reported it to FB & apparently had the vuln confirmed but then retested the vuln a couple of times at 12h & 22h after reporting/confirmation, with the implication that each time they were exposing other user's
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   by some_chap 5y ago

   Yes... >> "How could any other country take Johnson seriously" Not convinced that the problem's his climate spokesperson, TBH...
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   by some_chap 5y ago

   So many problems with that assertion... You've got very low expectations if you count those as "good" services - trying to travel with one small child would be challenging, two is likely to be stressful, even before the issue
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   by some_chap 5y ago

   > JavaScript, as I recall, was the answer to Java being crashy and slow on 50 MHz processors. Not in the least - The early scripting language Mocha, was first renamed to LiveScript then Netscape and Sun did a license agreement and it bec
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    by some_chap 5y ago

    I'd say that software is "special" because it's ephemeral, meaning there's incredibly few limitations on the possibilities (or changes to requirements mid-project) when compared to projects involving physical items.
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    by some_chap 5y ago

    Back when this happened and the article was written, (really - 12 years ago now!) they didn't have the full story, but it was pretty much the first of this sort of thing that Amazon had to handle. They did review, admitted they'd