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I agree with most of what you said, but just want to clarify for others that VAT registration is optional until revenue is high enough to reach the threshold. Not being VAT registe…

This seems like a huge own goal for the US. Who will want to buy American military technology, when the ability to employ it is at the whim of whoever wins the next election? Espec…

I noticed that you do have data for Flint. Did you have to pay it, or is there some appeals process if you're quoted an unreasonable amount? Great project by the way!

Could be the second chance pool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309

At some point, everybody had to learn what a hole saw is for the first time.

UK governments have been pushing for this for years, usually invoking some recent terrorist event as justification. I'm not suggesting you're wrong, but I don't think this is _just…

> It's all in the framing Yeah, that's the root of the problem, I think. It's easy to sell people that "we just need this one more bit of access to your private data, it helps us s…

I'm from the UK, and I completely agree. The general public either don't know about growing mass surveillance and privacy invasions, or don't care. "Terrorism and child abuse = bad…

Presumably this would be Jane, who felt the need to comment on the OAuth ticket: > Make sure to follow the security best practices Thanks Jane! Appreciate the input, don't you have…

Likewise! In higher dimensions, are the spheres just a visual metaphor based on the 3-dimensional problem, or are mathematicians really visualising spheres with physical space betw…

Is the author suggesting that current AI tools are capable of: > “write an auth library” or “modernize these unit tests” ? If so, I'm genuinely interested to know what tools people…

I can't speak for the US, but in my country that was sometimes the case, but not always. I was an engineer and had 'non-camo' uniform, and only wore camo in the field or on exercis…

I think I'm disagreeing with the definition implied by the article. To me, an integration test involves integrating with another system. Testing groups of functions or classes toge…

Most criticisms of unit tests in articles like this are actually criticisms of bad unit tests. They also overlook a large part of the value of unit tests, which is fast feedback du…

Exactly. The site calls them ailerons (presumably because they are on the wing and can roll the plane) but they are quite far back from the cg and so function more like elevators w…

This is helpful, thank you. We have 121s and retrospectives in place, so I'll focus on helping people to feel safe enough to give honest feedback/suggestions in those sessions. I l…

No apology needed, thank you for the correction!

I'm fairly new to managing developers, and I'd like to get feedback from my team on what I can improve. How do you elicit quality feedback from your team in a way that lets them be…

I think this would cause a fundamental shift in our society. Who would want to work minimum wage server jobs when offered the same salary for something more rewarding? Who wants to…

I suppose another option is to run everything in Virtual Machines, then you could run them to any cloud provider you like (or even run your own servers). What's the reasoning for t…

Nothing against scraping at all, I think that's probably the only real way to do this until more companies have a (free) status API.. assuming scraping is within the ToS of course …

I like the idea of an aggregated status page. How are you getting the 'Reported Status', are you scraping their status pages? I tried to build something similar a while ago, but fo…