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No it doesn't. It comes from the Queen saying "We are not amused" to mean "I specifically am not amused".

I don't think anyone's saying unions can do that? They can protect workers and provide some balance in the power dynamics, but there absolutely are limits.

No it's more because things have gotten worse. When people's parents could get an X-bedroomed house on a single parent's income, which they grew up in and developed their sense of …

Plus the Scottish Govt have removed the peak/off-peak ticket split, everything is now priced at off-peak - i.e. cheaper - rates. Doesn't necessarily impact season ticket holders bu…

"Lots of the team knows Postgres really well, nobody knows Kafka at all yet" is also an underrated factor in making choices. "Kafka was the ideal technical choice but we screwed up…

The technologically inept get QR codes tattooed on their foreheads.

Perl CGI FTW! :-D

Sure I mean it's not a crime or anything, just highlighting you're highly unlikely to get anything like the perspective, wisdom, insight, that - for example - an 80 year old might …

Interesting choice of words in the original article and headline here - to "seal one's fate" feels quite pessimistic and doom-laden. Why not something like "secure its future"?

Sure, just that stories about "paying down tech debt" are an implicit admission of flaws and shortcuts and "doing it again because it wasn't done right initially". Which is all tru…

As something of an AI skeptic the thing that bothers me most is the wholesale gullibility and credulity of leaders. Incredible claims IMO require incredible levels of evidence, not…

Ironically, screen sharing on zoom whilst all colocated can be less bad than sitting round a gigantic TV type screen for calls where screen content is needed :-|

A total tangent but it's amazing how more palatable "tech enhancement" is in planning, management chats, etc., than anything involving the term "tech debt"

Sadly yes - "When America sneezes, the World catches cold"

I mean maybe if you hear it a lot, there's a reason for that? Frameworks may not bring magical perfection but they bring a lot of objective benefit to the table.

Then they half press the shutter button and achieve only a brief moment of auto focus :-D

>> The iPhone picture always turns out, but the Canon takes a modicum of skill, which my wife is not interested in, and I'll never be able to teach passers-by when they take a grou…

Wife: good day at the office dear? Me: yep argued with some strangers on HN about how daft/wise UK's paracetamol laws are, highly fulfilling! :-)

You can buy two packs of 16 each, enough for 4 days usage at 2 per dose, 4 times per day, after which point if you still need them you maybe have a bigger problem. Or can just rest…

Ah that distinct phase of the Gartner Hype Cycle where CEOs claim massive amounts of use of Technology X regardless of whatever the underlying reality is

It could but you need a body of evidence for it, plus credible pathways to explain it. So far the greater weight seems to be behind "use it or lose it".

Treat it as the common good and societal investment it actually is, and fund it from central taxation like plenty of other countries do. Problem solved!

This is a really good point. It rather reminds me of a recent Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad) interview where he lamented what seems to be an emerging excess focus on villains, not "…

Or more, if Canadians travel to Europe instead of the US

FWIW I do think you're right that we should treat a new entrant to the (mainstream) market with at the very least some "optimistic skepticism". Personally I'd like to see some stro…