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There are plenty of use cases for consultants: 1. Experts in their field often reach a point in their career where they've run into enough road blocks and solved enough major probl…

Agreed!

I will tell you, having been approached by Accenture a number of times that the rates they offer their consultants are far below what a decent consultant expects to get paid. You g…

In the U.S. maybe those options work, but in Canada they don't. If by chance the goods were shipped via a courier that will scan the barcode to return, that works - UPS for instanc…

I haven't had a printer for the past 3 years and I refuse to buy one because of the disgusting economic and environmental practices of the ink mafia. Their behaviour has been beyon…

Well I can't speak for everyone else obviously, but I find traditional notation much easier to read than Clairnote's alternative. Even with the description, I find it harder to gla…

Along with a host of other server side "languages" - ASP, PERL/CGI... all this has been done before. Just as we've come full circle on infrastructure where we were trying to eke ev…

If I recall rightly, this is why VHS beat out the higher quality Betamax back in the day of video tapes - it was cheaper to produce using VHS so everything was on VHS. Because ever…

Having spent half a decade working in Oil & Gas flow control systems directly, I can confirm that 10 years ago when I left that industry, cyber security was still not even a consid…

I just had that request from my girlfriend in the Netherlands to bring back an iPad mini in this trip because they're $100 less for the 256GB model here in Canada than they work ou…

I love the Reuters app for my phone. I can listen to the roundup once in the morning while I'm getting ready or in 10 minutes on my way to the gym. It's all the basic headlines wit…

My main point still stands - subsequent generations always thinking they know better until life bites them in the ass and delivers them a new order of humility. Life has a way of t…

They did build a better alternative - Slack, then Teams came along and tried to rebuild Slack and then Skype and then Bluejeans came along... and then Zoom... and then Discord and …

Are you familiar with spoon theory? https://www.healthline.com/health/spoon-theory-chronic-illne... I have from 25-50 or maybe more things I need to get done in my normal everyday …

As a software engineer that spent a great deal of his life embedded in UI philosophy, I'm still so lazy when it comes to learning other systems. My cell phone for instance - the iP…

Having children allows child abuse - do we ban people from having children? Of course we don't...

What if we look at ideas such as encryption requiring licensing such that there are valid use cases for it and invalid use cases for it. Things that automatically qualify as valid …

The amount of times I do the same, only to think that everything I've written sounds so self centred that it's not worth posting, so then I think to myself "there's my therapy on t…

I don't miss the net splits though :D mIRC... those were the days. Good times, indeed!

I've had RegexBuddy installed on my computer for so long. It's been part of my basic dev setup for years: https://www.regexbuddy.com/ I used to use it a lot, although I've not used…

Your long-hand isn't quite the same as your regex...it should be remember -> one_or_more -> digit; In regex parlance, \d+ explicitly allows for one or more digits. Multiple tacitly…

Interesting in this instance is also somewhat sickening.

Agreed. I liken it to the census in Germany prior to World War II which asked religion, people gave it thinking they were doing nothing wrong. 1939 came around and it was used as a…

It depends very much what your tech stack looks like, but I use Git, CircleCI and Octopus Deploy to Azure for my stack. It's cheap in terms of maintenance and because I know them a…

Or when security actually becomes profitable in itself.