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"... the disaster that was Healthcare.gov " OMG you worked on that? The blame for this one (and Universal Credit) sits with GDS. Their approach at the time was agile or die, and th…

I do indeed. Here's a complete list of books I recommend when asked - https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Books.aspx The one that made the biggest impact on my approach to architectu…

The people using my system never skim my document. Lawyers tend to scrutinize it. As for the document being a war-and-peace epic yes, this happens. Mostly because people cannot wri…

Critical outcomes are defined by quality objectives (I mentioned some above, others are reliability, robustness and portability). People don't consider using my project. There's a …

Thanks for putting that out there. It's super interesting to see what we consider architecture to be. Your approach appears operational, focused on how the completed system functio…

Psychologically the enterprise software industry is actively discouraged from creating secure code. The most-heard mantra is to not do it because it’s difficult, making it a pointl…

Defense in depth suggests using controls to protect each individual resource. This includes individual apps, individual servers and individual user devices. A firewall is a single …

Please not the latter. There are sooo many apps out there where you wonder if it's a honeypot, has more or less functionality, or is a completely different product. All because the…

First, respect for taking the time to teach her. Second, I have difficulty writing this exctly because of the last sentence, will do so anyway - I taught myself to program in 1984,…

I use Office365. Yes it costs money, and yes they provide good support. I also use Outlook so ALL my mail, both sent and received are stored locally and remotely. If my mail bombs …

So today, if I want reliable messaging, I use asynchronous, non-blocking functions. Like async/await in .NET. If I want guaranteed delivery I write logic to provide that. Again, us…

Yeah... not quite. From the article - " Anger treats its target as someone capable of recognizing that she has done wrong... " This is true in some cases, but not all. Had a girlfr…

I will find a copy of the book to see what I can learn from it. Until now I've learnt that one cannot attain happiness as a state. It's fleeting. I stumble across it in moments, an…

Note I said "possible". Your link specifically states " During the transition period the GDPR will continue to apply in the UK ". That said, apparently they've just reached a deal,…

This is possible now that Brexit has happened. Whether the UK will need to comply with GDPR or not is dependent on the deal Boris strikes with the EU, if indeed he ever does.

I think the first search engine I used was Magellan. Until AltaVista happened. Loved AltaVista, until Hotbot/Inktomi, which was the only one I had trouble letting go of, I think on…

If being healthy is too much work then I guess obesity wins. I cannot imagine eating fast foods. Cooking is cheaper, besides the healthy thing. It's also FUN. I mostly cook German …

#3. I agree. Amd yet Ian has this to say under "Firefox was never enough" - All encompassing: The web hosts most of our desktop applications. It should host even more of them, it s…

There are a number of frameworks that do this, another being SCIPAB: - Situation - Complication - Implication - Position - Action - Benefit It's a bit heavy for my tastes but helps…

Wasn't clear, sorry. Facebook censors things, Freenet doesn't. That doesn't mean there's no place for Facebook, and it doesn't mean there's no place for Freenet.

True. Controlling human thought at scale can be useful though. It stops my 8-y/o from watching what he shouldn't. There's a balancing act between FAANGs, and the wild west where yo…

My boy goes to a European School (schools set up for employees of the Union), because my girlfriend works for a European institution. I sit on the parents association of the school…

First thought after seeing the screen shot was "whoa way too much whitespace." Second thought was that I do all of this in Outlook, and get world-class email, calendar, tasks/todo …

I tried blogging once. Also didn't have enough ideas for content and no compelling theme, to boot. Used to have imposter syndrome bad, but at some point I just stopped caring about…

" ...I felt like I needed to always be seen either in a meeting or butt in chair... " Yeah, norms. Like the expectation that employees remain signed into instant messaging apps. An…