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muds were the only way we could get games on the university network back in the 90s the mud of choice back then was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GodWars

It may be work sometime in the future, but having to prefix every query with a null check sounds bonkers. A view can be optimised to do all that for you. I made the what the flip e…

SAFe seems to be a pyramid scheme to get you to pay for the latest SAFe badge its overly complex and seems to be there to make management feel better about itself

normally I'd define it as something found in the wild being exploited already ... not a bug thats been found, reported and "ignored" this seems to be a zero day just because Apple …

0-day ... what they mean is .... I found an issue. Its hardly a 0-day, they've not posted any evidence of it actually being used in the wild, just that "it can be used". Why is a n…

Probably better than a huge lump of vibrating plastic plummeting out of the sky at them

we have this thrust on us ... we get pull requests for point release updates but it misses entire versions it decides that packages that have legitimately been forked by a manufact…

My house is on land that’s on a 999 year lease since 1870(ish) from the county that moved boundaries 40 years ago...and we have no idea who the the lease holder is... so that’s fai…

I used to work for a large US corp that called us all professional developers, just so they don’t have to pay overtime... professional grades don’t get overtime

I used to remote work in my old job... now I have a commute of at least an hour... and it’s only 17 miles :(

I'm not sure you got the entire impression of what was going on in the early 90's and late 80's then. There was a massive scene in the Amiga and Atari ST market.... over here we al…

Yeh $1500 computers.... you where looking at the wrong thing. Everyone else was looking at the not Microsoft market... commadore, Atari etc. I bought my first computer with Christm…

i was going to post a comment along the lines of... and once again everyone has to have perfect colour vision.... what is it with these "experts" that think the way they see things…

...isn't that the standard order size for a week in the states :p

not sure ... was it the time I deleted the table space containing the unbanked transactions for a local council which was about £1 million (I did a very hasty recovery) or when i a…

If you find a feature nobody has used for the last 6 months... and its to do with some long term calculations... probably safe to say they use it annually. We have the end of year …

i feel the obligatory insensitive clod response to be appropriate to this post.... or is that to slashdot for hacker news?

i work for a large US corporation, and also did in my last job (i'm in the UK) .... it seems to be a general thing to forget the US is not the only place people live in the world .…

nothing like a nice honest bit of gerrymandering

I've found that those in charge also have a budget to run you on... how do they justify you spending x hours updating code to do exactly 0 as far as anyone is concerned? ..plus all…

We have 2 apps that are used for the same thing.... the original one and the rewritten one. The rewritten one was coded up in C# over 3 years and isn't anywhere near as robust as t…

>The process is fine, but sometimes shit is broken and you need to fix it now and clean up the existing mess later. when did you ever get to this land of milk and honey called late…

... or whoever wrote the code should have put boundary checks in to make sure a negative altitude was caught and handled properly

that early is fine if you don't have kids... or have kids who start school at some stupid time like 7am.... my kids don't start school until 8:50... so starting before 9 is complet…

nothing motivates people like having their exact hours monitored