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And yet... haven't you noticed that supermarkets in posher areas are less likely to have the coin slot? (Asda and Tesco are two whose policy varies by location). And in supermarket…

IMO it depends how they got there. For me the "minimal set" of rules that can still be called Agile is a mechanism for measurement, and a retrospective. You use the retrospective t…

I'm hoping for Mary Anning, personally. Local hero.

If your purpose is to allow the device to be used when it doesn't have your full attention - like a car radio, for example - I don't think that's a good solution. I have a phone wi…

Thing is, I had that all set up! I'd deleted all the IE icons! Spotify did an end-run around all my precautions, because there was basically no way to remove IE from the OS, and an…

I'm on there and I've never been vetted. I'm not sure what shape that would take. They are trying to disintermediate agents, without ending up in a race to the bottom, IMO.

Embedded in the desktop app. It was news at the time. "spotify ads malware" looks like a good search term to dig up more information.

Years ago, a Windows virus slipped on to three family machines I'm the go-to-guy for, due to Spotify using IE to display ads, and not vetting its ads properly. My answer was two-fo…

Putting aside the difficulty of building that database of true facts, and of parsing unknown facts out of English text, that solution feels like it's inviting an arms race. I can w…

Never mind HN, that's a classic Slashdot response.

"Use a bouncer" might be the answer there. All engineering is compromise, and needing a bit more compromise to support legacy applications is not unreasonable. (In fact, why are yo…

I use location and a dash of IFTTT to auto-fill timesheets. I'm aware it's a trade-off.

> And companies will neglect the EU market altogether As an EU citizen (until April, anyway), can I live in that future please?

Well he was replying to me and I didn't read him as uncivil at all. His response ("syncing is expected") is completely on-point when talking about the PoLS. I disagree, obviously, …

We could apply the principle of least astonishment to get a feel for correct behaviour without resorting to sterile arguments about what proportion of users understand the differen…

You should look up where most of our medical teaching skeletons come from.

There's got to be something that grows faster, and is easier to sequestrate, than trees. Bamboo, maybe? Seaweed? Algae? Dry it off in salt pans and dump it in the deep, cold ocean?…

Old building. Managed offices, completely gutted internally last year. I don't know if that wound count as new build. Probably not.

From my basement in London: Probably specific countries.

That's.... extremely sensible. A lot like not allowing a market for human organs.

Teaching skills are the bridge. That's what servant leadership is to me - not teaching in the "stand in front of the classroom" sense, but teaching in the "lets pair on this and fi…

It was a technique used by poachers, not Gentlemen. Laws around hunting in the UK have a strong scent of class about them (Eg hunting with a bow is illegal, hunting with dogs was l…

Yeah, but what have you done for us lately?

Balloons, maybe.

I use a variation on inbox-zero: if it's unread, it still has to be dealt with. Sort email unread-first. Works well enough for me (I have lots of "automatically mark read" filters …