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by tragic 3y ago
At my last job, there was an incident (thankfully discovered in working hours) caused by a supplier accidentally deleting the country of Austria from some crucial database. You can't anticipate everything like that, but the show must g
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by tragic 6y ago
Or Rust, which - whatever you might think of it - does not feel very designed-by-committee.
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by tragic 6y ago
> P.S. I am tired of the YADIW excuse. Let's have a nice honest discussion about how it can be fixed. If somebody complains that Scrum is bad because e.g. every day you have to update management at stand-up (as mentioned in TFA), bu
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by tragic 6y ago
> Why are we being asked how long it will take to do work in sections of code we have never seen? It is common enough for those packs of estimation cards to include one with a question mark on it, to denote the "I can't estimat
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by tragic 6y ago
> You would never run a class this way As a literature graduate, this made me laugh. Maybe literature courses are more leisurely stateside, but for me it was a book a week (not 4 to 6 weeks, as OP suggests). That was literally how clas
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by tragic 7y ago
I currently work in one week sprints and we do this. Not 100% of the time of course, and it's an internal facing team where the customers are two desks away. But I've also done it on other teams with proper paying customers. The d
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by tragic 7y ago
That's not quite true - iPads are a huge hit in electronic music for performance and production. Whether that counts as 'revolutionary' is another matter - there was the original Lemur which proved the multitouch MIDI use in
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by tragic 7y ago
What a fine way to rule out of existence almost all subgenres of metal and punk, and all of indie rock, and indeed anything other than bands who do bucket-list arena tours. All this stuff is rock, and millions of people listen to it; the au
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by tragic 7y ago
> If removing repetitive code is a requirement then the team needs to be informed that code will be reviewed for repetition, and introduced to various techniques for spotting and removing repetitive code. Things like this are never requi
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by tragic 7y ago
I've noticed, in London at least, that there is a new appreciation of the style among hipster millennial types. You can buy maps of 'Brutal London' with all the great examples marked (Goldfinger's tower blocks, Guys hosp
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by tragic 7y ago
The GDPR angle is that this was why they decided to indiscriminately delete inactive accounts. Deceased users are the reason they're delaying it, not the reason they're doing it.
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by tragic 7y ago
I think the idea is that it's easy to fake excitement until you're asked to spend six hours on a take home test. At which point you'd actually have to be pretty excited to do it.
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by tragic 7y ago
If it's a sustainable business, I would guess it would be sold off to pay creditors in the event of a wework bankruptcy. So will probably be all right (depending on the buyer, of course).
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by tragic 7y ago
> Yes, I know some things simply can't be done without a JS webapp, but not all and probably not even a majority, so if HTML and CSS will do the job fine, then so be it; and even if it needs to use JS, it likely doesn't need to
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by tragic 7y ago
You could optimise either, I don't think that's the point. It's just a convenience that more clearly expresses the intent of the code where it's used. Imagine an example where the callback to map is quite long; seeing th
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by tragic 7y ago
> * Resale - By putting stickers on my laptop, I am either going to have to try to remove them again once I come to selling it, lowering my resale price because the laptop isn’t in near pristine condition. > * Damage - There is a worr
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by tragic 7y ago
It's a DDoS, apparently: > We're experiencing a distributed denial of service attack. This affects your ability to login on the web & mobile. It may also create delays sending & receiving mail. We're working with o
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by tragic 7y ago
> Will MIDI 2.0 devices need to use a new connector or cable? > No, MIDI 2.0 is a transport agnostic protocol. > That's engineering speak for MIDI 2.0 is a set of messages and those messages are not tied to any particular cabl
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by tragic 7y ago
There is a slight difference in that all those tools are the basis for their companies' commercial offerings. Google does not sell Go tools or consultancy hours etc. Its interest in Go is to have a programming language that's safe
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by tragic 7y ago
They're asking for the password to your email account, not your Facebook account.
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by tragic 8y ago
Further: what about if I'd paid tens of thousands of dollars for a magic hearing aid that could pick out conversations in said Starbucks in which I have a potential business opportunity?
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by tragic 8y ago
Apparently somebody tried this to get rid of Alex Jones[0] [0] https://www.adweek.com/digital/twitter-users-are-blocking-hu...
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by tragic 8y ago
Some friends of mine [0] actually made a puppet opera based on this chap - and a blast it was too. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/stage/video/2017/jan/26/watch-a-...
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by tragic 8y ago
> To me this ruins the meal. But at that point you're basically just objecting to all delivery food ever. Which is fine but, like, you are aware that it is a huge industry and has been for decades and people do like it? Convenience
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by tragic 8y ago
You may know this already, but there are now several Crystal Maze attractions around the UK. We did the one in Islington for a work away day, it was pretty sweet. Just about worked for me and I watched the show back in the 90s ... https:&#
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by tragic 8y ago
In brief: if the economy is booming, loads of companies want office space. If the economy tanks, loads of companies need to cancel their leases. WeWork's lifetime has been on the upward slope out of the 2008 crisis. There is a question
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by tragic 8y ago
I remember, during a thunderstorm, being utterly convinced that a war was being fought outside. I was terrified ...
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by tragic 8y ago
You could split off the ad selling wing from the rest of it for a start. It would be drastic, for obvious reasons, but forcible de-merging huge businesses is always drastic, cf Hollywood, Ma Bell, and so forth. Nothing would stop close part
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by tragic 8y ago
But if the means you choose to demonstrate your sovereignty is to defy a new wave of American sanctions on Iran, then you certainly are choosing Iran over the United States, as a brief glance at any recent news headlines will tell you. Th
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by tragic 8y ago
Besides which - what is Macron going to do if half the board of BNP Paribas is arrested when they land on US soil for sanctions busting? Invade? This seems like a very good way for the Europeans to learn how much of the international financ

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