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Testing doesn't imply TDD.

Any addition of labor will push down wages just be increasing competition for jobs, even if they are all paid the same.

Completely agree with you. Every time I see yet another template language adding some clumsy for-each loop syntax I sigh. Just let us use a normal programming language. As an examp…

LifeTime Grand Prix has at least _some_ testing.

The AI and Tooling support point is really just an extension of the Community and Ecosystem point. Even before LLMs React had an advantage in that every question you had was probab…

If you're right for 30 years in tech you're right, even if things eventually change.

Does Azure? I think there's AWS then everyone else.

The article describes what happened and it had nothing to do with Unisuper. Google deployed the private cloud with an internal Google tool. And that internal Google tool configured…

Mandatory licensing would be wild. If LG invent something that makes TVs better should they have to licence it to Samsung? Or should they just be able to make better TVs and use th…

At a place I was consulting about 10 years ago one of the internal guys on another product dropped the prod database because he was logged into his dev db and the prod db at the sa…

Lots of the fancy keyboards coming out at the moment are settling around the layout the advantage has had for decades (although usually without the nice curve the advantage has).

Do you dual boot? I've got two bootable OSX partitions on my mac and this hit me when I updated.

Erg, I ran into this on my mac twice when I upgraded. I have two bootable OSX partitions and it hit on both upgrades. I'm not really a mac guy and it took a _lot_ of messing around…

Around the time I got my A500, my neighbour's dad bought a PC that ran California Games in CGA at about one frame per second. I'm sure there were much better PCs available, but it …

I started undergrad at UQ in '93 and had internet via dialup to the uni I'm pretty sure that first year, but if not definitely by '94, and that was available to anyone who wanted i…

There's an emergency call option from the lockscreen (the one where you enter your pin/swipe if you don't just use your fingerprint) which I have set off a bunch of time in my pock…

8000 votes out of 7.5 million members. I'm on r/nba every day and didn't see the poll. People will say statistically 8000 votes is sufficient for an accurate sample, but only if th…

I think many people didn't see or care about those original polls. All the subs I'm in that re-polled their users after the initial 2 day shutdown are now open as a result. The two…

They would only do the deal on the spot if that was their only option. But they have the option of spending $0 and having the majority of the users moving to the official app.

Perhaps the part about it needing lookups of the unicode database and being dependent on the version of the database used?

It's harder to do studies that seperate out adults who didn't have fluoridated water as children, but for example from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23456704/ "In this nationally…

Here you go: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/003335491012500507 We've been putting fluoride in water for a long time, and there are multiple studies that have looking in t…

I used to work at a small company where the most expensive licence was $10k. One of our big customers basically asked us to make a more expensive licence so they could give us more…

Classes still work fine if you want to keep using them.