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OP was probably thinking of Finland.

Back in the ancient times of the early 2000's I had to deal with a massive, legacy java codebade. I found a small free library called MaintainJ that used aspect-oriented programmin…

Changed Europe? Changed the UK and very little else... I mean, it's a cool bit of engineering and it took ages to build. But for most people in Europe means nothing. > "It put inte…

Depends, code that was not written with testing in mind can be very difficult to cover without some major refactoring. Adding the first tests can be a slow and painful process. Now…

I'm of the same opinion. I love getting feedback, better if it's constructive, but all kind of honest feedback is useful and welcome. And it doesn't always come from people with mo…

Management and engineering are two different careers, so I wouldn't call it "upgrading". Having the technical chops definitely helps as a manager. And knowing what the managers exp…

Not sure what to tell you... If I remember correctly, the last time I restarted Firefox was to update it, around the 5th of May (I have version 76.0). Generally speaking I don't re…

Another one, not mentioned here but one of my favorites: Psephophorus Terrypratchetti.

Yep, my todo lists are all trees. Even when I'm writing a document, I first put the table of contents as a tree and then fill in the different sections :) I have one exception, tho…

Really? I have, right now, 290 opened tabs dangling from the hacker news homepage and about 20 other "root" tabs with more trees. All in all, ~450 opened tabs in 6 different contai…

Have you ever used a complex database in a formal, by-the-book, third normal form? The number of tables explodes, the number of joins become a pain and every single data change req…

The Netherlands are the biggest re-exporter of fruits and vegs. In terms of both quantity and value, they are behind Spain: https://www.freshplaza.com/article/2135083/netherlands-w…

> "science-education-ism". My phrase - I don't know of a real one... anyone? Ever since I first read it in "The Science of Discworld" I've called that "Lies-to-children" ( https://…

> As someone who's only touched Ruby for a few years Well... Gemfile.lock has nothing to do with rails and all to do with Bundler, but if you've never used Bundler for dependency m…

I used NN3 and 4 back in the day (and still do, kinda, Firefox is still my main browser), but man, writing CSS for Netscape was a nightmare! I still remember that weird bug that fo…

For amazon.com, there were a few from Anker (one was mentioned in another comment) that looked interesting... As I said, no luck finding them in europe. I ended up going with this …

I ended up going with this one: https://thepihut.com/products/anidees-6-port-smart-ic-usb-ch... Have had it for a couple of months now with no issues.

Not only for macs... I have 4 raspberry pi4 powered through an USB hub and spent quite a bit of time looking for one that had at least 4 ports and that every port could deliver a m…

I remember when the anti-glare was the default and you had to pay a few quid more for the glossy. Then they changed so the default was glossy and anti-glare was more expensive (but…

Probably through the votes the different parties got in the general elections of 1977: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Spanish_general_election

Leukaemia survivor here... It might be a stupid question and everyone is different, but have you tried fresh fruit and ginger ale? I went through six months where that was all I co…

I completely agree with you. The thing is, I might be able to see this "working" in very simple and limited processes[0]... But going back to your example of the nasty bug in compl…

A bit late to the discussion, but does it really change that much if, instead of "my country", I say "Spain"? In this case Spain hasn't done anything wrong (the data gathering for …

Maybe that data doesn't exist in your country. In mine, the police has the picture and fingerprints of everyone older than 12 years old and any younger person that needed an ID car…