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Maybe I'm missing something, but to me more frequent builds make proper semver more important, not less. An easy way of knowing which versions you should be able safely update to w…

That's exactly what I thought when I started using it. But as I've got more used to it, I'm not sure it's really an issue, or at least doesn't have to be. Firstly, JSX isn't really…

It's one of the meanings, and presumably the one that was in mind when the term was coined. But an awful lot of people seem to take it to mean the other sense - "in good health, es…

I agree. The critical question isn't "should I be attending a meeting when I'm walking in the countryside?". It's "what's the alternative?" If it's that you can be walking in the c…

Unfortunately, the vast majority of people doing it are never spotted by police officers. I walk to work most days, and I can't remember the last time I didn't see at least one per…

Not the original poster, but I assume they mean daylight saving. Depending on which kind of clock you're talking about, then for most of the world time goes back by an hour.

There's at least one on that list that's (at least in my experience) gone from relatively mainstream to esoteric - self-modification. Back in the day when both memory and clock cyc…

I get why IPv6 is going to be massively important in the future, but we're not (as far as I know) in that future yet, and these sites aren't going to be dropping their v4 addresses…

I do the same, but some companies don't seem to be interested. I've had two different emails linked to a magazine's website and had spam to both. When I've contacted them about it,…

My reading of the ruling is that the EU are saying that it's always been illegal under EU law, but that the Irish government had pretended that it wasn't. What it looks like they a…

That may be true in some parts, but not everywhere. Nottingham, for instance, has had contactless cards for transport for years. There's an array of confusing different options (so…

I feel the key sentence is “Our strains, to the extent that we can test them , won’t escape,

This is the exact reason that the Disability Discrimination Act, now the Equality Act, was introduced in the UK (no idea whether there's any equivalent elsewhere). It's illegal to …

If you were using the primaries as a way of predicting the overall winner, the critical word would be "random". The statistical idea that a small sample can accurately represent th…

You didn't make it to > 48) Physics and most of biology are just opinions that will change every few years. then?

I agree with that, and as I say I'm not attempting to defend Tesla in the slightest. My point was simply that the driver has to take responsibility for their actions in this situat…

I don't disagree - like I say, none of my comment was intended to let Tesla off the hook in any way. My point was simply that the drivers who use semi-automatic cars and choose to …

It's certainly a major fault of Tesla's - if you know it's not safe, you've got no excuse to keep going. But the driver shouldn't be allowed to escape blame either. When your car i…

I'm not sure that most people would be particularly offended by the fact that it reduces drug dealing, theft, littering etc. The problem, at least for me, is the sleeping bit. I wo…

It's so ignorant and full of "I'm doing something stupid, but the employee was brilliant" comments that I can only assume it was actually written by the employee herself trying to …

I think the problem is that out of the context of the blog, the title makes it sound like it's going to be more interesting to the average reader than it actually is. If you're rea…

For me, mobile web and native app are largely solving two different use cases. If it's one of the handful of places that I use regularly, and want frequent quick access to, it's pr…

Curiosity in general is probably a fundamental part of human nature. But you have to make a call at what point you stop trying to understand everything about everything. Thomas You…

Why? There's plenty of rumours that Apple will launch a lightning -> 3.5 mm female for existing headphones to plug into. If they're doing that, there's nothing to stop them creatin…

It is, but the equivalent is "people with high end headphones replace their headphone cable all the time". And if the rumours are true that Apple will release a lightning -> 3.5 mm…