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2008: "The UK-based IT department of the fifth largest bank continues to dwindle as more jobs go overseas... This round of cuts, starting in June and lasting 12 months, involves up…

> That said, I find the definition of conservatism quoted by the OP insightful: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law prot…

Just a few days ago, he was hoping to "make people's money back". [1] It's a bit sad, as he appears delusional. A less forgiving viewpoint would be that his background cultivated h…

I feel AWS ate Rackspace's lunch. Rackspace were never part of the affordable hosting segment. I think DigitalOcean ate the shared PHP hosters' lunch.

I've used DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr. All have had OK ticket-based support. There are horror stories out there for each one.

Something I recently missed emacs for, was being able to use it to transparent edit a file over SSH. I couldn't find an easy way to do that with IntelliJ/phpstorm.

> The problem for me was JetBrains' privacy policy[0]. It is loosely-worded enough to forbid them practically nothing, and I find that especially appalling in a so-called "communit…

They also have a good tutorial on installing it manually, for one of the cheaper droplets at $4 a month, or on Vultr at $3.50. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-…

Biscuit - "twice baked" in French.

> I still have a landline at home that I basically never use, "just in case". I have a landline that I only use to call my mobile phone, when I lose it within the house.

In the English-speaking world it is a swastika. I can understand the desire to reclaim the word swastika, but it might be an uphill battle.

> current government opinion The current government opinion is actually often at odds with the police over this matter; they have been chastised openly on twitter by Braverman. The…

Don't know if that is true. https://www.bbc.com/academy-guides/music-copyright-in-tv-wha...

My point was criticising your underlying assumption that the lack of diversity is due to an unwelcoming environment, presumably as a result of intolerance to certain characteristic…

Everyone being welcomed into contributing to the kernel can result in a natural lack of diversity, as it selects for people interested in technical programming. It is the ham-fiste…

Mac seems to offer a more similar experience to Windows when it comes to corporate remote administration. So Macs are what corporate provides to developers.

PHP's model is different, not a mistake. It has proved successful so far. The shared-nothing, short-lived process avoids classes of issues such as with slow memory leaks, accidenta…

PHP's unit of concurrency is the shared-nothing web request. [1] It has proved a very successful model, combined with tools that cache PHP bytecode like opcache, and keep a pool of…

It proposes alternative measures for non-violent offences. I see the title as a rhetorical device. > If we can’t close down women’s prisons, we can at least slow down their expansi…

The headline is clickbait. The article is mild proposals to rehabilitate, e.g. drug users.

postgres alpine is 90MB. I can really recommend it, using a declarative docker-compose.yml file and then docker-compose command.

If employers offered the same working environment as a home office, it would be much more expensive. Open plan is only cheap on the books. It costs a lot in decimating the focus of…

No docker access? postgres images are available in seconds.

Why wouldn't you use ansible to manage one server? It's a great tool with a low learning curve that just requires SSH.