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Has anyone tried to do a GDPR request yet to either see what data they actually hold, or to test the right to erasure?

I'm fond of "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge, and its kind of prequel "A Deepness in the Sky", they both contain some great ideas and I love the fact they have some very alie…

Working in a team where the senior engineer let me fail. We were working on a fairly large new system and I had an idea about how I wanted to do something. We discussed the pros an…

We use a few languages in our apps but for the ruby apps we use rerun in our docker-compose files ( https://github.com/alexch/rerun ) like so: `rerun --background -- "foreman start…

https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/#create-an-issue gives a bit of list of things that can be set, when using it as a link title isn't required. I can't for the life of me reme…

I don't think so, it seems like its just a link to what you can see within the UI anyway and simply pre selects it for you. But I am by no means an expert on it and it is pretty si…

Admittedly we use it on private repos so we haven't seen an issue with it, but there isn't anything from stopping you putting the link in other places

There is already a way of doing this using the URL like: https://github.com/jamesRaybould/go-mssqldb/issues/new?body=... You can then add it as a simple href to the readme.md. It a…

We are looking at using Docker to help make our dev environments a little bit more sane. We deploy to Heroku so we use the Heroku docker image to give us (what is hopefully) as clo…

I guess this would be the docker image in question? https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/microsoft/aspnet/

I love my fitbit and wear it pretty much religiously, it tracks how much I move in a day and how much I sleep, but 2 things irk me about it. It is constantly broadcasting my locati…

I've been using OSM with first Cloudmade and then Mapquest for an internal project at work and my experience is mixed. The most notable difference in terms of quality that I have p…

I agree that insulating against human fault is always a good thing to do but at some point you must trust your team to do the right thing. In fact in using a 3rd party you are trus…

Surely its not about outsourcing a status page but just making sure that it is on completely different infrastructure?

Having a quick poke around and I notice that they are storing all exceptions in an SQL database. I've been looking at storing all the errors we get in our various applications in a…

I don't suppose you have a jsperf link to contrast and compare? I'm assuming swapping between the 2 isn't all that straightforward?

That looks a hell of a lot like underscore.js templates ( http://underscorejs.org/#template ) to me. What would be the advantage if I was to make the swap?

If you dig back to the last tech radar ( http://thoughtworks.fileburst.com/assets/technology-radar-oc... ) you'll find the narrative for why Backbone.js was moved to the 'hold' cat…

I'm also curious how they got the wifi scanning working on iOS, last time I looked at doing it myself Apple had moved/removed the private library in iOS5.

I had a similar problem until today when I saw in the release notes you can turn off the gravatar icons that appear in each of the commits. Doing this I found that the entire inter…

Thanks for that its really appreciated!

I'm in the middle of a short build (~5 days) mobile app that is using app cache and annoyingly I can't see to get it working on iOS, all the standard web browsers seem fine but iOS…

After a full afternoon of fighting the change management process at my current employer, for what will be about 20 seconds of unavailability to an internal CMS server, it has left …

It appears that you spelt minutes wrong. Just take a look at the massive fire sale that revolved around the HP Touchpad and I think thats the kind of interest this will receive.

Seems like perfect work fodder for me - If I manage to remember in the morning I'll be looking to sign up.