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If I go into hospital I hope I'm not being treated by the doctor on hour 22 of their shift. The problem with handovers is bogus - doctors can't work for weeks at a time so there ha…

So a lot of issues here. You can't be oncall 24hours. That's broken. Human beings need sleep. An oncall rotation that has an individual oncall for 24 hours is a broken thing. And d…

Btw, shunit2 is here: https://github.com/kward/shunit2

What does this do that shunit2 doesn't already do?

With the password store android app...

The fs caches the directories. So in a large, flat dir structure it has large, flat dirs it needs to cache. Now I'm not sure how big the win will be for accounts since one assumes …

Site seems down. Summary?

Sounds interesting, but does that place have good wifi?

A little warning that you're linking directly to a excel spreadsheet would be nice. Also, isn't it 2013? Aren't there like a bajillion ways to put spreadsheets on the web that don'…

Exactly. Everyone who forwards this story should get an email account with no spam/virus/crap processing on their mailbox. I use google apps now, but when I ran my own mail server …

Yes. Well said.

It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?

On a certain level they would be right to complain. Tarsnap has a flaw: buses. The problem is that Tarsnap is one person. If Colin dies suddenly (in the sysadmin world, the primary…

A microvax. Well, two of them.

There are more and more devs who have only worked with git. For them, they will find svn complex. They'll be used to using branches and svn will get in their way. Git is complex fo…

At some point you should reread what you wrote and decide where in that message you became patronising/bullying.

It's a flat design and yet you still have to make it 3d (the shadow for the pin).

Not everywhere has postal codes, please do not require them. Love, People-in-Ireland-tired-of-typing-fake-postal-codes

Since I fist say it back in 1995 or so, IE has never supported a computing platform I was running, so honestly I've never given it any thought. So the "loved to hate" bit is wrong.…