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I actually had it happen on me.. visited certain websites, pressed "Restart" in Windows and left the room, computer came back on with Chrome displaying my last session in its full …

Why, yes, I think what you're describing is a management problem: a) the new employee was given customer-impacting tasks without checking their competency properly, and then b) his…

And sometimes it's an entire city that's the problem. My girlfriend comes from a mountainous zone. We live in the city that I was born, a dusty place in the plains. Guess what, wit…

Notifications have this huge downside that they disturb you from your work and from your leisure time, fragmenting attention to the point of being useless to yourself. This has lon…

It's an interesting bit, this. When you open an avenue of communication, then others get re-prioritized accordingly. Having text options lowers the perceived need for calling in pe…

The objects under test are brittle and bound to change dramatically. Selenium can't offer you insurance against this. I now remember a test suite we had on my project (automotive).…

Perhaps this article will show you what your interlocutor means: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/06/catherine-nich... It is not a new phenomenon for women writers to be …

> If you only ever expect to get to go to London once in your life, you're going to be very busy trying to see everything in the week you have. The trap is, of course, that it's mo…

Wanting to spend a pleasant time doesn't seem to rhyme with people that end up in a two-hour queue in London or Milan. I do know people who genuinely want to have a nice, relaxing …

Sure you can, but their point is valid: you don't care about the money, you care about getting a damn car ASAP.

> keeping a kid off a screen and giving them other activities is expensive, in parental time if not direct cost. Some 30 years ago, in my country the parent instructions to their k…

If shops and schools are sane, they will adjust the schedule according to daylight. No point keeping a shop open at 7am if there's no shoppers, because they're all sound asleep.

People learn better when there's pain involved. Let there be much pain, and people will learn.

That sounds easy until you realize you would need a special adblocker for Facebook. Ublock Origin doesn't handle those. And don't even get started on mobile adblocking, it's still …

Publishing words also involves a bit of typesetting; not much, but some . It may need to be re-done on a new platform. Exporting a large body of work is not trivial if you don't kn…